Johnson & Johnson drops the Ethicon 4000 stapler with Ethicon 3D staple technology: Ready for Ottava
- Steve Bell
- 4 days ago
- 12 min read
Updated: 3 days ago
When a company updates its class leading product line - such as with surgical stapling - It is of course big news. Because it is an important multi billion dollar product for them... and a critical part of the portfolio for minimal access surgery. But maybe also important it is a core profit contributor.
But when companies drop new products they leave interesting clues around and sometimes they raise more questions than apparent answers. The Ethicon 4000 stapler is one of those giant breadcrumbs. Very very interesting
Now you put into that the statement that this technology will be integrated into OTTAVA in the future and well - you now really have my attention.
I have covered over and over again in many articles about robot stapling the “dos and do nots” and it will creep up again in this article as I noticed something… and well… hmmmm
So let’s get straight into it…
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