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Mar 23 2018
Xconomy
Operated by a hand-held controller, Auris Health’s recently FDA-cleared Monarch Platform has lung cancer as its first targeted disease state. According to the article, the FDA determined the technology Auris built was equivalent to other bronchoscopic procedures that use endoscopy to examine a patient’s lungs. However, with the integration of the latest advancements in robotics, software, data science, and endoscope innovation, Auris aims to go further than conventional endoscopy.
Excerpt from the article: "Though lung cancer is Auris’s first target, co-founder and CEO Frederic Moll said in a prepared statement that the company envisions applying the technology to other endoscopic procedures in the future."
Read the Full Article on AurisBronchoscopy:
Complications from bronchoscopy are rare and most often minor, but if they occur, may include breathing difficulty, vocal cord spasm, hoarseness, slight fever, vomiting, dizziness, bronchial spasm, infection, low blood oxygen, bleeding from biopsied site, or an allergic reaction to medications. Only rarely do patients experience other more serious complications (for example, collapsed lung, respiratory failure, heart attack and/or cardiac arrhythmia).
Urology:
Adverse effects from both Mini-PCNL and Ureteroscopy include pain, urinary tract infection, fever, hematuria (presence of blood in urine), exposure to low levels of radiation, retained or residual stones.
Adverse effects from ureteroscopy may include pain, perforation or injury to the ureter, resulting in extravasation of fluid and urine (urinoma), stricture of the ureter with risk of subsequent obstruction (hydronephrosis needing further repair), rare avulsion of the ureter, urinary blood clots, residual stones.
PCNL access may result in minor and major adverse effects. Minor effects include fever and nephrostomy leak. Major adverse effects may include injuries to pleura, liver, spleen, large vessels with related bleeding, gallbladder, duodenum, jejunum, colon with related cutaneous fistula, fever, pain, ileus, elevated counts.
Major adverse effects related to stone removal may include infection and urosepsis, intravascular fluid overload, extravasation of fluid, and post percutaneous nephrolithotomy bleeding.