{"id":2669,"date":"2018-12-22T19:37:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T19:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drshevchuk.com.ua\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2018-12-22T19:37:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T19:37:28","slug":"intuitive-surgical-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drshevchuk.com.ua\/?p=2669","title":{"rendered":"Intuitive Surgical: By the Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zvanODxzN5Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In recent years,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.medtechy.com\/boards\/companies\/intuitive-surgical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Intuitive Surgical<\/a>\u00a0has been at the center of controversy\u00a0with claims they\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.medtechy.com\/boards\/companies\/intuitive-surgical\/4391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hid\u00a0more than 700\u00a0injury claims<\/a>, numerous\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.medtechy.com\/boards\/patient_focus\/4158\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">patient\u00a0lawsuits<\/a>\u00a0and new robotic technology\u00a0vying for FDA approval from\u00a0<em>every<\/em>\u00a0major medical device company\u00a0in an effort to\u00a0unseat them as the leader in robotic surgery.<\/p>\n<p>This hasn&#8217;t deterred Intuitive though.<\/p>\n<p>Surgeons are still flocking to the da Vinci and helping the company grow. In the first quarter of 2018,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medtechy.com\/articles\/2018\/intuitive-surgical-hits-2018-priorities.-blows-past-q1-expectations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Intuitive blew past their projections<\/a>\u00a0in system\u00a0growth and procedure volume.<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting thing is, amid the controversy, the company has kept quiet\u00a0and continued working hard&#8230;until now.<\/p>\n<p>Intuitive released an amazing video with a list of their accomplishments and they are impressive.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5,000,000 da Vinci patients (and counting)<\/li>\n<li>Over 43,000 surgeons trained<\/li>\n<li>Over\u00a015,000 peer-reviewed publications on da Vinci robotic assisted surgery<\/li>\n<li>4,409 da Vinci systems in hospitals on 6 continents and 66 countries<\/li>\n<li>4,380 employees around the world<\/li>\n<li>2,700 patents with 1,900 more pending<\/li>\n<li>Used by 100% of the top ranked U.S. hospitals in Cancer, Urology, Gynecology and Gastroenterology<\/li>\n<li>Every 36 seconds a surgeon starts a da Vinci procedure<\/li>\n<li>23 years of continuous innovation<\/li>\n<li>5 da Vinci surgical systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>\u0414\u0436\u0435\u0440\u0435\u043b\u043e<\/strong><\/em>:\u00a0https:\/\/www.medtechy.com\/articles\/2018\/intuitive-surgical-has-treated-over-5-million-patients-with-their-da-vinci-surgical-robot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years,\u00a0Intuitive Surgical\u00a0has been at the center of controversy\u00a0with claims they\u00a0hid\u00a0more than 700\u00a0injury claims, numerous\u00a0patient\u00a0lawsuits\u00a0and new robotic technology\u00a0vying for FDA approval from\u00a0every\u00a0major medical device company\u00a0in an effort to\u00a0unseat them as the leader in robotic surgery. This hasn&#8217;t deterred Intuitive though. Surgeons are still flocking to the da Vinci and helping the company grow. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drshevchuk.com.ua\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drshevchuk.com.ua\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drshevchuk.com.ua\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drshevchuk.com.ua\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drshevchuk.com.ua\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drshevchuk.com.ua\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2670,"href":"http:\/\/www.drshevchuk.com.ua\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions\/2670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drshevchuk.com.ua\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drshevchuk.com.ua\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drshevchuk.com.ua\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}