# K973700: Hermes Operating Room Control Center

- Pathway: 510(k) (Traditional)
- Applicant: Computer Motion, Inc.
- Decided: Feb 24, 1998 after 151 days
- Product code: GCJ (Laparoscope, General & Plastic Surgery)
- Device class: 2
- Regulation: 21 CFR 876.1500
- Recalls of this device: none
- Data: FDA decisions to Oct 25, 2026; recalls to Oct 12, 2026

## Lineage
Longest line of descent: 2 generations back to K931783 (1993). 3 ancestors in all.
310 later devices descend from it; 9 cite it directly.
0 of 314 devices in its family (counting itself) have a Class I recall.

## Predicates on the family tree (from the FDA summary)
- K931783: Aesop (Automated Endoscopic System for Optimal Pos, Computer Motion, Inc. (1993) Summary page 1.
- K960655: Aesop System and Accessories, Computer Motion, Inc. (1996) Summary page 1.
- K961971: Q-5000, Stryker Endoscopy (1996) Summary page 1.

## Cited in the summary but kept off the family tree
- K820624: Syn-Optics #5200, Syn-Optics (1982). Our OCR of the scanned summary read K820624, FDA’s number for Syn-Optics #5200 (Syn-Optics). Its FDA name has none of the distinctive words the summary uses for the device it names, “Model 882 Camera”. Kept off the family tree. Summary page 1.

## Most influential descendants
- K980787: Hermes Operating Room Control Center with the Wom 20L Insufflator (1998), 300 descendants of its own
- K991696: Stryker Hermes-Ready Total Performance System (1999), 253 descendants of its own
- K032117: Stryker Total Performance (TPS) System (2003), 238 descendants of its own
- K040270: Opusduo; Opusduo E; Opusduo EC; Opus 20; Opus Spectrum (2004), 226 descendants of its own
- K060033: Profile Multi-Platform System (2006), 221 descendants of its own

## Indications for use
The HERMES OR Control Center is indicated for use with Stryker Endoscopy 882 Camera and Quantum 5000 Light Source that is used in general laparoscopy, nasopharyngoscopy, ear endoscopy, and sinuscopy where a laparoscope/endoscope is indicated for use. A few examples of the -more common endoscopic surgeries are laparoscopic chelecystectomy, laparoscopic hernia repair, laparoscopic appendectomy, laparoscopic pelvic lymph node dissection, laparoscopically assisted hysterectomy, laparoscopic & thorascopic anterior spinal: fusion, decompression fixatiof, wedge resection, lung biopsy, pleural biopsy, dorsal sgmpad\ectomy, pleurodesis, internal mammary artery dissection for coronary artery bypass, coronary artery bypass grafting where endoscopic visgalization is indicated and examiniation of the evacuated cardiac chamber during performance ©of valve replacement. The users of the HERMES ORCC are general surgeons, gynecologists, cardiac Surgeons, thoracic surgeons, plastic surgeons, orthopedic sfirgeons, ENT surgeons and urologists.

Source page: https://510kreport.com/device/K973700
Methodology: https://510kreport.com/methodology