Author: Dr. Savatta

  • New Robotic Surgical Procedure: Robotic Bladder Diverticulectomy

    Today, Dr. Marc Greenstein and I performed the first robotic diverticulectomy at our hospital, and likely among one of the first on the country. This procedure was done for recurrent bladder infections, but can also be done for bladder cancer. The operation went extremely well and much better than the typical open version of the…

  • Robotic patient

    Our friendly nephrologist at kidneynotes.com found this article: USATODAY.com – Robot birth simulator gaining in popularity I was giving a grand round recently and was asked by the chairman of medicine about other robots in medicine. I told the audience of the robotic doctor and robotic scrub nurse, but I think this list will grow…

  • Nebraska University makes roming mini-robot

    NU robots designed to train doctors to operate in outer space Source: Lincoln Journal Star

  • Robotic Prostate Surgery

    Although there is a growing number of prostates being removed robotically, there are many people and top urologists questioning the benefit of the da Vinci prostatectomy over the established open approach. This was recently debated on ABC News. I do find it interesting in that how some urologists that I deeply respect are heavily in…

  • Uro Stream- Urology Blog by keagirl

    Scouting the blog world, I found an excellent blog from another urologist: Uro Stream: RANDOM THOUGHTS AND RANTS FROM YOUR FRIENDLY UROLOGIST keagirl Occupation: Urologist Location: A Big City, USA About Me I’m convinced that I am a frustrated veterinarian at heart. However, my unfortunate allergies to most rodents, felines and equines led me to…

  • Profitability of Robotic Surgery: Hospital Perspective

    Analysis: Robot’s financial impact mixed Whether a hospital can break even or make a profit with the da Vinci device appears to turn on factors like the specific health plans in a particular market, the mix of Medicare patients, and the efficiency in using the robot. And most facilities seem to lose money at the…

  • Robotic Surgery: (b.d.) Before Da Vinci

    I am often asked about other robotic surgical platforms other than Intuitive’s Da Vinci Surgical System. There currently aren’t any systems that are being used to perform laparoscopic surgery to my knowledge. Prior to 2003, when Computer Motion merged with Intuitive Surgical, Computer Motion had a product called the Zeus surgical system. This system had…

  • Robotic Surgery Growth in New Jersey: Focus Prostate Cancer Surgery

    This is a monthly update on the growth of Robotic Surgery in my practice. As I explained last month, I have been restricting use of the da vinci robot to prostate surgery. Until our second robot is operational on a regular basis, I have been mostly performing davinci prostatectomy (dvP) for prostate cancer. In March,…

  • Robotic Surgery Blog Subscription

    I have added an easy way to subscribe to the robotic surgery blog. I will be linking to feedburner, which will allow you to subscribe to the blog by importing entries into your my yahoo, google home page, etc. The link is on the right nav: Subscribe to Blog (RSS) >>