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Consider the case of a 43-year old male who underwent a colectomy— without complications— to treat Crohn’s disease. Soon after coming home, the patient developed significant abdominal pain as well as a fever. Upon returning to the hospital, the patient was given medication to control the pain and fever, and then sent home.
At home, the patient continued to experience significant pain and high fever, and was ultimately re-admitted to the hospital for a second time. On admission, it was noted that the patient had a distended abdomen as well as a lack of urine production. The treating physician ordered a CT scan, and the patient was given antibiotics. Hours later, a physician discovered a leak in the patient’s bowel caused by the initial surgery, and the patient then underwent a second surgery to repair the leak.
Following the surgery, the patient developed compartment syndrome and sepsis. The patient’s condition continued to deteriorate, and the patient died in the ICU.
Unfortunately, such preventable and unintended surgical errors are the third leading cause of death in the U.S after heart disease and cancer. These errors claim approximately 250,000 lives every year in the U.S alone. According to a study by John Hopkins University, it was recognized that diagnostic errors, medical mistakes, and the absence of safety nets could be some of the likely reasons for these deaths.
Could such errors have been prevented? Activ Surgical’s CEO Todd Usen believes that his company’s technology can make a difference.
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We want to give doctors a tool that offers real-time surgical intelligence and capabilities far beyond the current standards
Activ Surgical’s goal is to work with all surgical imaging technologies, from scopes to robots, to enhance their value proposition through the use of the ActivEdge technology. “We also believe that our ActivEdge Platform will create an accelerated push where both robots and surgeons have collaborative decision-making capabilities,” Usen commented.
Activ Surgical is backed by 100 years of Medtech experience in its senior leadership team. The company, established in 2017, spun out of research conducted by, a pediatric surgeon and its founder—Dr. Peter Kim.
Slated to hit the market in the fall of 2020, ActivSight is set to drive transformational change. “We want to give surgeons a tool that offers real-time surgical intelligence and capabilities far beyond the current standards,” added Usen. “Our focus is now on providing global access to best-in-class surgery, regardless of location with the ultimate goal of eliminating preventable surgical complications, improving patient outcomes and providing savings to healthcare systems,” he concluded.
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Company
Activ Surgical
Headquarters
Boston, MA
Management
Todd Usen, CEO , Activ Surgical
Description
Activ Surgical is building hardware-agnostic surgical software that allows minimally invasive surgical systems (laparoscopes, arthroscopes and robots) to autonomously collaborate with surgeons. The first product augments surgical vision equipment in real-time in order to provide critical information to surgeons not available today. Activ Surgical was founded in 2017 and completed the world's first autonomous robotic surgery of soft tissue by programming off the shelf robots with ACTIVINSIGHT.