Category: Miscellaneous

  • Pediatric Robotic Surgery

    There is an excellent website on robotic pediatric surgery. The surgery is performed using robotic technology by John Meehan, MD and assisted by Anthony Sandler, MD of the University of Iowa. They have a lot of videos of their surgical procedures available for viewing.

  • Robotic patient

    Medical students treat dummies that bleed, speak, and die – Engadget The University of Portsmouth is upping the ante on its training facilities for those making the rounds in med school, and doctors-to-be now have access to �135,000 ($266,706) dummies that “bleed, speak, and potentially die” depending on the level of care received.

  • Profitability

    I agree that the reimbursement for a radical prostatectomy should be more than it is, but that is true for nearly everything we do these days at the hospital. You are paid a little more for the code for a laparoscopic prostatectomy (the code for a dVP) than for an open radical and with experience…

  • daVinci S travelling to NJ train stations this week

    Newark Beth Israel is bringing the daVinci S robot to 3 train stations in NJ this week from 7AM to 10AM. Commuters will have a chance to see and possibly test-drive the newest robot. I will be in Newark on Wednesday morning with the intuitive surgical team. Tuesday, December 5 Secaucus Junction 26 County Road…

  • A single dose of prophylactic antibiotics may be enough

    ScienceDaily: Single Dose Of Antibiotics Before Surgery Sufficient To Help Prevent Infection: “Single Dose Of Antibiotics Before Surgery Sufficient To Help Prevent Infection A single dose of antibiotics prior to surgery appears to prevent infections occurring at the surgical site as effectively as a 24-hour dosing regimen, and with reduced antibiotic costs, according to an…

  • Congratulations to the Newark Beth Israel Cardiovascular team

    Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Named One of Nation’s 100 Top Providers of Cardiovascular Care: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance: “Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Named One of Nation’s 100 Top Providers of Cardiovascular Care Monday November 20, 9:00 am ET NEWARK, N.J., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ — Recognized for outstanding outcomes in adult cardiac care,…

  • Muscle breakdown after robotic kidney surgery

    I recently had a patient who had muscle breakdown (rhabdomyolysis) of a buttock muscle after a robotic removal of part of a kidney for tumor. I found a nice review of this problem on urotoday’s site that had an article from the BJU. The urologist that wrote the article were from the Department of Urology,…

  • Firefighters may be at higher risk of developing prostate cancer

    Firefighters at High Risk for Cancer – Forbes.com: “‘For testicular cancer there is a 100 percent increase in risk, for multiple myeloma there is a 50 percent increased risk, for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma it’s a 50 percent increased risk, and for prostate cancer it’s a 28 percent increased risk, compared with non-firefighters,’ he said.”

  • da Vinci robot makes top 10 list of all time robots

    SoulCast – The 50 Best Robots Ever: “08. DA VINCI SURGICAL SYSTEM In the future, you’ll beg to be operated on by a machine. Credit Intuitive Surgical’s 2000 robot, a fusion of arms, cameras, and instruments that allows doctors to slice into patients remotely. Procedures done with the da Vinci are more precise than when…