Replies to post #24555 on Titan Medical Inc (TMDIF)

[RockoTaco]

I just went thru Part 1 of Day two (where fowler and park were panelist). I don't have the proper perspective to tell why fowler mentioned that other than the fact that not all Robotic Platforms will be the same, much like not all medical devices are the same even though they are used for a similar procedure. It could have been around the idea of: should all robotic platforms be the same and therefore all training be the same and the resounding feedback from physicians was no. When Titan comes to market, they will have to have training programs in place to help physicians become proficient with SPORT. Just b/c a physicians has worked on davinci for 5 years doens't mean they don't need any training on SPORT.

It makes sense, davinci is the straight arms and Titan will be snake like arms, davinci has a console that you look into and Titan will have the 3D monitor, davinci's hand/foot controls will operate differently than SPORT.

I just found it interesting that he mentioned the time surgeons have spent on SPORT already and what they have learned from that. Maybe one of them was Lefty and he was knocking knuckles with the big boys.

[Bristol19]

Snake arms are not going to have the same elements of control that wristed joints do. They don't move the same way. Hence, training will be paramount and will not probably be transferible directly from one platform (eg. daVinci) to another (eg. SPORT), or Mazor, or Surgibot for that matter.

If FDA insists on "similarity" of manual control elements, for example, what fingers and motion control a scissors, then that enormously limits development for all platforms.