Category: Robotic Surgery
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Prostate cancer in NJ
This is the monthly update of my robotic surgery practice at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. This months focus is on prostate cancer, with a record 24 dvPS performed this month. This month I performed 27 robotic surgeries including 24 da Vinci prostatectomies for prostate cancer. Both of these are a record for 1 month…
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Hawaii obtains first robotic system
starbulletin.com: “Robot to aid surgeries at Queen’s The da Vinci system will first be used on prostate cancer cases A robot called ‘da Vinci’ will begin work with surgeons this week at the Queen’s Medical Center.” I blogged on this a few months ago, with my friend Dr Russell naming the next 2 states to…
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Robotic Surgery Growth: November 2006
November 2006 robotic breakdown For November I performed 21 robotic operations: 15 robotic prostate removals (dvP), 2 removals of a part of a kidney (robotic simple nephrectomy), 1 kidney (robotic nephrectomy), 2 removals of parts of a prostate for BPH (simple prostatectomy), and 1 reconstruction. This was the 1st month that I performed 20 robotic…
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Haptics in the news
“It always helps to be able to feel what you are doing, to feel the tissue tension and to feel the force when manipulating a suture,” says Domenico Savatta, chief of minimally invasive and robotic urology surgery at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. “Haptics would make it easier to learn robotic surgery, operate on things…
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Robotic Surgery in England
Da Vinci puts magical touch on the prostate | Health | The Australian One of the five robots in the UK is at the London Clinic. It has proved so successful that professor Roger Kirby, and his anaesthetist Peter Amorosa, now do most of the radical prostatectomies using a robot rather than hands-in and hands-on…
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One person’s daVinci experience
Jacky Lai: Here’s The End of My Clerkship in Urology: “It’s a 2-hour-surgery in traditional open surgery. Laparascopic surgery was invented to be faster and less invasive, but our robotic surgery – smaller wound but a lot more time. The major concept to prevent surgical complication is to reduce time consumption – do as fast…
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The language of surgery
� A new ‘language’ for surgery? | Emerging Technology Trends | ZDNet.com After watching surgeons using robotic systems for a while, computer scientists at Johns Hopkins University have decided to borrow ideas from speech recognition research to build what they’re calling a ‘Language of Surgery’. In speech recognition, basic sounds are called phonemes. For surgery…
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Robotic surgery in Canada
London Free Press – City & Region – People . . . You Know: “In Canada, there are only three Da Vinci robotic surgical systems. Two of them are in London. One operates out of C-Star, the other, at St. Joseph’s Hospital, is used primarily for clinical care. ” I wonder how many daVinci robots…