Initial cases were done by Rajiv Sethi, MD, and Philip Louie, MD at Seattle-based Virginia Mason Medical Center; Samuel Joseph, MD at HCA South Tampa (Fla.) Hospital, and Alfred Ogden, MD at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, N.J., according to a news release.
MaxView is a towerless system with no capital equipment expense and occupying no operating room footprint. It has a single-use camera and a reusable image control box.
“This is a major step forward enabling cases to be performed where large, expensive capital equipment is not economically or practically available,” Dr. Louie said in the release.
