Robot surgery on woman suffering from cancer in Florida: patient dies, family sues

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Today we cannot imagine the world without technology. Without it people's work is not going on. Today almost everyone is seeing a mobile phone in their hand. Every house has a TV, fridge and AC-cooler, without which a person cannot live. This technology has also made many people rich and now this technology is going to create a world where humans don't have to do much work and every job will be done by machines. But this technology can overwhelm man. A recent example of this in Florida has made people think.

Patient died after surgery

There, a man has sued a medical manufacturer claiming that its device caused his wife to die during a colon cancer treatment. According to a report, the man, Harvey Sultzer, filed a lawsuit against Intuitive Surgical (IS) on February 6, claiming that his wife suffered health complications after a surgery performed by the company's surgical robot.

The robot made an incision in the small intestine

According to the case, Sandra, Harvey's wife, used a da Vinci robot, a remote-controlled device, to undergo an operation at Baptist Health Raton Regional Hospital in September 2021 to treat her colon cancer. An advertisement was given by the company regarding this robot in which it was claimed that this robot can easily do the work which the doctor cannot do. The suit claims that the robot made an incision in the woman's small intestine, requiring several additional surgeries.

The husband filed a case against the company

However, after all these procedures, the woman had constant pain in her stomach and she also had fever. Then he died in February 2022. The lawsuit alleges that the robot had insulation problems that could have burned internal organs, but the company failed to disclose the risk, resulting in the woman's death.

$75,000 in restitution sought

The woman's husband has sued the company for negligence, product liability, design defect, failure to disclose risk, loss of consortium and punitive damages, seeking $75,000 in damages.