Category: Robotic Surgery

  • John Hopkins working on robotic advances

    Johns Hopkins Gazette November 13, 2006: “Johns Hopkins researchers are trying to change that by adding such sensations, known as haptic feedback, to medical robotic systems. “Haptic” refers to the sense of touch. A video showing some of this research is online at www.jhu.edu/news/audio-video/medical_robotics.html.” I thought this was an excellent video showing the davinci robot…

  • Truly "robotic" surgery in the future?

    MTB Europe – Robotic surgery guided by 3-D ultrasound scanner: “Surgery Robotic surgery guided by 3-D ultrasound scanner 7 November 2006 Durham, N.C. USA. Duke University engineers have shown that a three-dimensional ultrasound scanner they developed can successfully guide a surgical robot.” I discussed how the daVinci robotic system is a master-slave system several months…

  • da Vinci robot in Athens

    ekathimerini.com The mechanical arms…: “The mechanical arms of the first robotic machine capable of performing surgery were seen yesterday when the Da Vinci robotic system was presented by the private Athens Medical Center.” It is not very clear if the robot was passing through, but it appears that this unit in Athens may be the…

  • Robotic Surgery Growth: October 2006

    View chart of Dr. Savatta’s robotic surgery growth For October I performed 15 robotic operations, 12 robotic prostate removals, 1 removal of part of a kidney, and 1 bladder and prostate for bladder cancer. I have performed 130 robotic prostatectomies in the last 12 months and 113 so far this year. In the last year…

  • Robotic prostatectomy in Montreal, Canada

    CNW Group: Robodoc: MUHC surgeon teams up with Hopital du Sacre-Coeur de Montreal robot to perform prostate cancer surgery

  • Delaware to obtain their first robot

    Delawareonline : The News Journal : St. Francis to use da Vinci system Delaware was one of the few states that did not have a daVinci robot. I believe this will leave only Hawaii, Montana, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wyoming as states that do not have one yet according to the intuitive surgical…

  • Robotic Surgery in Tennessee

    Oak Ridge, Tennessee: Oak Ridger – news I am famiiar with Oak Ridge. A friend and fellow IU Urology grad of 2003 has a practice there. It is nice to see robotics making it to smaller towns in the US and I am sure Dr. James Sloan will find good use for it.

  • Robotic Surgery Growth: August 06 update

    View chart of Dr Savatta’s robotic volume This is a monthly update on the growth of Robotic Surgery in my practice. In August I performed 12 robotic operations. 10 were daVinci prostatetcomies for prostate cancer, 1 was a nephrectomy for cancer, and 1 was a partial nephrectomy for cancer. The total number of robotic prostatectomies…

  • ergo

    From the World Congress of Endourology Source UroToday Saturday, 19 August 2006 O Elhage1, AP Shortland , BJ Challacombe , D Murphy , A Sahai , P Dasgupta 2 1 1 1 11Department of Urology, Guy’s Hospital and GKT School of Medicine, London, UK, One SmallStep Gait Laboratory, Thomas Guy House, Guy’s Hospital, London, UK.2…