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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida man filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit claiming his wife died following a da Vinci surgical robot procedure.
Harvey Sultzer, the husband of late Sandra Sultzer, filed a lawsuit on Feb. 6 and claimed his wife suffered health complications following her procedure.
According to the suit, Sandra underwent an operation at Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital in September 2021 to treat her colon cancer. The da Vinci robot, a multi-armed, remote-controlled device, was used for the surgery. The electrosurgical instruments are manufactured by ISI, which has 3,174 robots around the globe.
According to the University of South Florida Health , the surgical system that replicates a surgeon’s hand movements in real time and is called “EndoWrist.” Sultzer used this system to undergo her procedure to treat her cancer.