FDA Surgeon Survey Finds Variation In Training With da Vinci System
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
An FDA survey of 11 surgeons with experience using Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci robotic surgical system shows respondents reported having difficulty learning how to use the device’s complex user interface.
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