Ibanez Jimenez, Cristina
Lath, Adrit
Ringold, Forrest
Funding for this research was provided by:
intuitive surgical (intuitive surgical)
Article History
Received: 29 September 2021
Accepted: 12 January 2022
First Online: 2 February 2022
Declarations
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: Institutional Review Board approval was not required for this study. Live porcine animal models were used to evaluate thermal spread, seal, and transection performance of SynchroSeal with the E-100 generator. The experiments were approved by Intuitive Surgical’s Animal Care and Use Committee.
: Not applicable.
: Ms. Cristina Ibanez Jimenez and Mr. Adrit Lath are employees of and own stock in Intuitive Surgical; Ms. Ibanez Jimenez is also supported with work-related travel by her employer; Mr. Adrit Lath has patents pending on the SynchroSeal device. Dr. Forrest Ringold is a proctor for Intuitive and is on the company’s speakers’ bureau and owns Intuitive Surgical stock. All authors received third-party medical writing support, which was funded by Intuitive Surgical.