What device introduced 25 years ago changed the path of cardiac and other surgeries?
The Intuitive Surgical Da Vinci Surgical System. In May 1999, Dr. Friedrich-Wilhelm Mohr performed the first robotically assisted coronary artery bypass surgery, at the Leipzig Heart Centre in Germany using the da Vinci Surgical System.
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