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Since 1985, AED has been one of the world’s leading companies in the manufacturing, repairing, and servicing of endoscopy products, general instrumentation, and ancillary items. Our in-house master technicians have more than 200 years of combined work experience in endoscopic manufacturing and repair. We utilize new original specification parts and adhere to strict Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards and ISO 13485. We maintain an extensive inventory of parts in order to offer our customers the shortest turnaround time possible which is 24 hours in most cases. Our extensive facility allows us to manufacture any type of endoscope and endoscopic instrument.Because of our unique capability in manufacturing and repairing endoscopic equipment, we are one of the top repair sources for many companies and various large rep organizations. The state of healthcare changed completely once the Affordable Care Act was enacted and hospitals are constantly looking for ways to cut costs. It is our mission to help those hospitals, as well as the community, by providing quality services at a great value. AED is registered with the FDA and utilizes only FDA-approved and USP Class 6 materials to ensure proper repair.

The soft-tissue surgical robotics monopoly is officially over, giving way to a mature four-titan ecosystem featuring Int...
10/13/2026

The soft-tissue surgical robotics monopoly is officially over, giving way to a mature four-titan ecosystem featuring Intuitive, J&J, Medtronic, and Stryker. Rather than competing on incremental hardware features, these MedTech powers are carving up the market by venue and architecture.

This shift has been driven by major 2026 milestones: J&J securing FDA clearance for its zero-footprint, table-integrated Ottava system, and Stryker entering the soft-tissue game via a $400M alliance with CMR Surgical to scale the small-footprint Versius platform in outpatient spaces and ASCs.

The legacy strategy of selling a single, multi-million-dollar multi-port console to every central OR is officially obsolete. Growth now belongs to platforms built for specific clinical workflows, physical constraints, and sterile processing realities.

Why do so many promising surgical hardware prototypes end up abandoned on shelves?After decades in the industry, we have...
09/21/2026

Why do so many promising surgical hardware prototypes end up abandoned on shelves?

After decades in the industry, we have found the culprit is isolation: corporate R&D silos and market committees working miles away from active clinical environments.

True speed and innovation require physical integration. When engineers, software developers, and biomedical researchers work shoulder-to-shoulder with clinicians, mere footsteps from the operating room, we bridge the gap between mechanical capability and everyday surgical utility.

In our latest article, we explore how academic-clinical models (like those at Vanderbilt's VISE) are bypassing bureaucratic roadmaps to forge the future of surgical robotics and AR navigation right on the hospital floor.

What happens when the endoscope becomes more than a camera?For decades, the endoscope has simply shown surgeons what is ...
09/02/2026

What happens when the endoscope becomes more than a camera?
For decades, the endoscope has simply shown surgeons what is in front of them. Now, 3D visualization, computer vision, and surgical navigation are beginning to turn that visual feed into something more powerful: spatial information that machines can analyze and the operating room can use.

My latest essay explores research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a bigger question for the future of minimally invasive surgery.

What if the endoscope is not just learning to see better, but learning where it is?

Standing face-to-face with living legends like Dr. Peter Cotton, the pioneer who revolutionized ERCP and pancreaticobili...
08/27/2026

Standing face-to-face with living legends like Dr. Peter Cotton, the pioneer who revolutionized ERCP and pancreaticobiliary care, is a masterclass in medical history. At , rubbing shoulders with the true titans of interventional endoscopy brought fifty years of clinical breakthroughs into sharp, unforgettable focus. The future of medicine isn't just in the technology. It is in the room with the icons who dared to change it.

In the early 1990s, smoothing a patient's forehead required one of the most violent trade-offs in aesthetic surgery. To ...
07/20/2026

In the early 1990s, smoothing a patient's forehead required one of the most violent trade-offs in aesthetic surgery. To lift two eyebrows, surgeons had to make a massive ear-to-ear cut across the top of the skull, peel back the scalp, and strip away skin.

The procedure worked, but the clinical cost was immense: permanent scalp numbness, hair loss along the scar line, and a distorted hairline. Surgical dogma insisted that real structural elevation was impossible without cutting open the entire head.

Dr. Luis Vasconez and Dr. Grady Core at the University of Alabama at Birmingham refused to accept that premise.

Building on UAB’s legacy of endoscopic innovation, they asked a fundamental question. Why strip the entire scalp when you can achieve the exact same anatomical release through keyholes?

Between 1992 and 1994, Vasconez and Core shattered the status quo. They replaced plastic surgery’s longest incision with five sub-centimeter portals hidden behind the hairline.

Guided by an endoscope beneath the scalp, they released the arcus marginalis and treated the underlying muscles under direct visualization. The ear-to-ear scar vanished. Scalp sensation was preserved. Recovery times dropped overnight.

Vasconez used UAB as an international incubator, mentoring future leaders like Dr. Renato Saltz, Dr. Nazim Çerkeş, and Dr. Jorge de la Torre to carry endoscopic facial techniques across continents.

Yet the true soul of his career extended far beyond technical milestones. For over thirty years, Vasconez returned to Ecuador, performing more than seventeen hundred free surgeries for underserved children. He proved that while technical innovation redefines a field, human care defines a legacy.

In the mid-1980s, the operating room entered a wild, uncharted territory. With the sudden arrival of video technology an...
07/16/2026

In the mid-1980s, the operating room entered a wild, uncharted territory. With the sudden arrival of video technology and laparoscopy, surgeons were asked to do something entirely counterintuitive: perform complex, high-stakes procedures by looking up at a grainy monitor instead of down at the patient. It was a time of pure, frantic invention where there were no standardized pathways, no training models, and the blueprint for minimally invasive surgery had to be written in real time.

Witnessing this historic transition at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center alongside the legendary Dr. George Berci was a masterclass in clinical evolution. To bridge this radical gap in spatial awareness, we had to build the very first primitive box trainers to help surgeons rewire their motor skills. Introducing these concepts at the historic first laparoscopic cholecystectomy meetings was more than just a product demonstration. It was witnessing the exact moment the entire foundation of modern medicine fundamentally changed.

Today, as artificial intelligence and surgical robotics redefine the modern operating room, that same electric, disruptive energy is back. The leap from those early video screens to advanced digital ecosystems is just as dizzying as the one we watched surgeons take forty years ago. Once again, medicine is learning to look at the screen in a whole new way, proving that the era of the giants never ended. It just found a new canvas.

When a superstar tears a knee during the high-stakes intensity of the NBA Finals or the World Cup, their multi-million d...
07/13/2026

When a superstar tears a knee during the high-stakes intensity of the NBA Finals or the World Cup, their multi-million dollar career relies on an outpatient procedure the medical establishment once fiercely mocked as a dangerous gimmick. For generations, traditional surgeons arrogantly declared that you should never bother peeking through a keyhole when you can simply open the door. Yet, the quiet pioneer who finally shut that door wanted absolutely nothing to do with fame, wealth, or corporate glory, operating out of a humble hospital for postal workers.

Meet Dr. Masaki Watanabe, the visionary orthopedic surgeon who proved that the human body could be cured through the glass. On May 4, 1962, he bypassed the brutal, crippling structural devastation of an open arthrotomy, sliding a modified pediatric bladder scope into a tight joint capsule to cleanly slice away a teenager's locked basketball injury under direct visualization for the very first time in history.

Decades later, as 4K displays and advanced robotics dominate sports medicine, the true soul of this surgical revolution still rests on utter humility. He was so profoundly modest that he trained his own residents for eighteen months without ever uttering a single word about his historic, world-first breakthrough. Read our latest legacy feature on the silent giant who completely rebuilt the sporting world from a humble keyhole.

Every surgeon in the world uses his name daily, yet few actually recognize his face. He was not a surgeon, nor did he ev...
07/07/2026

Every surgeon in the world uses his name daily, yet few actually recognize his face. He was not a surgeon, nor did he ever step into medical school as a student. He was not motivated by corporate profits or commercial gain, which is why he famously sold the patent rights to his revolutionary medical device to a manufacturer for exactly $1.

Meet William T. Bovie, the brilliant plant physiologist and biophysicist who managed to tame high-frequency electricity in the 1920s. On October 1, 1926, he brought his experimental alternating-current switchboard directly into the operating room, partnering with legendary neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing to safely conquer the bleeding brain for the very first time.

Nearly a century later, the original mechanics of his device remain the ultimate foundation of hemostasis. From rural community hospitals to autonomous robotic suites, his name stays alive as the most ubiquitous verb in modern medicine. Read our latest legacy retrospective on the tragic, brilliant, and entirely altruistic life of the man behind the machine.

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https://www.endoscopysuperstore.com/blogs/surgery-gets-smarter-blog/bovie-and-the-spark-that-changed-modern-surgery

Reflecting on this year, the momentum from continues to reshape the trajectory of healthcare. The speed at which the f...
06/29/2026

Reflecting on this year, the momentum from continues to reshape the trajectory of healthcare. The speed at which the field is moving is remarkable.

We are witnessing a massive paradigm shift, from the clinical debut of next-generation force-feedback platforms to the reality of a 7,000-mile telesurgery. Standing alongside global experts to honor the legacy of the pioneers of robotic urological surgery brought the broader mission into clear focus.

The definitive takeaway from this year is the inspiring horizon of global medical connectivity. These smarter tools and collaborative networks are opening incredible possibilities to share specialized care and advance patient outcomes worldwide.

Five minutes before a high-stakes, live-broadcast surgery, Dr. Mkrtich Mosoyan learned a sudden banking collapse had era...
06/24/2026

Five minutes before a high-stakes, live-broadcast surgery, Dr. Mkrtich Mosoyan learned a sudden banking collapse had erased his family’s entire 40-year life savings.

Most surgeons would have walked away.

With his hands trembling from sheer physical shock, Mosoyan placed his head into the surgical console instead.

The technology completely absorbed his human frailty. The platform's advanced tremor-filtration software neutralized his shaking, translating his inputs into rock-steady micro-dissections for a flawless success.

June 2026. Catching up at the American Urological Association (AUA) meeting, Dr. Mosoyan has now cleared an astonishing 3,000 robotic interventions. From mastering elegant visual choreography alongside godfather Dr. Richard GASTON to patenting a 6-minute autologous tissue loop that nets an 82.1% immediate continence rate, he is completely rewriting the playbook.

True trailblazing is no longer about personal milestones. It is about open-sourcing mastery to train the next generation and delivering elite clinical intelligence directly to regional clinics where everyday patients live.

Our latest feature profile tracks this relentless 15-year journey of resilience and surgical artistry.

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