Timeline of Use
- December 1, 1998 – Computer Motion Inc. and United States Surgical Corp. agreed to develop and market robotic heart surgery devices using ZEUS.
- 1998 – Dr. Frank Diamiano performed the first procedure in the United States with a reanastomosis of a fallopian tube using ZEUS.
- September 24, 1999 – Dr. Boyd of London Health Sciences Centre's (LHSC) university performed the world's first robotically-assisted closed-chest beating-heart cardiac bypass operation on 60-year-old dairy farmer, John Penner, using ZEUS.
- November 22, 1999 – The first closed-chest beating-heart cardiac hybrid revascularization procedure is performed at the London, Ontario Health Sciences Centre. Dr. Douglas Boyd used Zeus to perform an endoscopic, single-vessel heart bypass surgery on a 55-year-old male patient's left anterior descending artery.
- December 9, 1999 – Dr. Ralph Damiano, Jr., of the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey performed the first robotic-assisted beating-heart bypass in the United States using ZEUS.
- October 9, 2001 – ZEUS received FDA regulatory clearance, following the FDA decision for U.S. surgeons to use a variety of instruments to perform a wide range of robotically assisted laparoscopic and thoracic procedures.
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