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MIS Trends 2014: Improving Visualization

Innovation is driving healthy growth in the multibillion-dollar market for minimally invasive surgical products as manufacturers develop new laparoscopic visualization systems and advanced surgical tools with robotic-like features designed to enable more complex procedures to be performed via a minimally invasive approach.

Manufacturers of minimally invasive surgical (MIS) products are developing new laparoscopic visualization systems and advanced surgical tools designed to offer some of the benefits of robotic surgery without the challenges posed by current robotic platforms. These companies are counting on such hybrid solutions to provide a technological and economic middle ground between traditional laparoscopy and robotic surgery and enable more complex procedures to be performed via a minimally invasive approach. Advances in imaging, such as three-dimensional (3D) high-definition (HD) laparoscopy systems (3D HD), fluorescence imaging, and image guidance, along with new handheld tools and energy devices designed to enhance dexterity, maneuverability, rotation, precision, and ergonomics will continue to drive growth in the multibillion-dollar MIS products market. Manufacturers are also driving growth by targeting underpenetrated and emerging markets, particularly in Asia and Latin America, and by focusing education, sales, and product development efforts on underserved clinical areas with good potential for increasing MIS adoption in gynecologic, thoracic, hepatobiliary, pancreatic, colorectal, oncologic, and bariatric surgery. (SeeAlso see "Trends In MIS, Part I: Pushing Surgical Boundaries" - Medtech Insight, 25 May, 2012..)

In part one of this two-part series, Medtech Insight covers the latest advances in laparoscopic visualization, and highlights the trends...

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