Category: Robotic Surgery

  • 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,…

  • Follow to :Robotic Surgery: Is it truly robotic surgery or will it ever be?

    Source: National Post (Canada) After Sunday’s project with NASA, Dr. Anvari’s team will focus on a new, even more mind-bending phase: “semi-autonomous” robots that are programmed to do surgical procedures on their own, without a physician directly controlling their movements. Apparently there is a physician, Dr. Mehran Anvari, in Canada who according to the National…

  • Robotic Surgery: Is it truly robotic surgery or will it ever be?

    I was giving a talk today at New Jersey City University and was asked a good question. Do I think that robotic surgery will change so the robot does the surgery? Currently the da Vinci Surgical system is a master-slave system, where the surgeon is the master and the console is the slave. The da…

  • Robotic Surgery in San Diego

    I am very pleased to announce that the robotic surgery blog will be adding a third robotic surgeon. Dr. Jay Yew of Sharp Rees-Stealy Urology in San Diego California will be the third urologist to blog at the robotic surgery blog. Dr Yew has performed hundreds of da Vinci prostatectomies and is also a pioneer…

  • Robotic Surgery Growth in New Jersey (Essex County)- Feb 2006 Update

    This is a monthly update on the growth of Robotic Surgery in my practice. Original blog entry about robotic surgery growth was in November of 2005 and is updated monthly. For February, I performed 13 robotic operations including 11 prostate removals for cancer, 1 prostate operation for BPH, and 1 reconstructive operation on a kidney.

  • Robotic Surgery Growth in New Jersey (Essex County)- January 2006 Update

    This is a monthly update on the growth of Robotic Surgery in my practice. Original blog entry about robotic surgery growth was in November of 2005 and is updated monthly. For January, I performed 14 robotic operations including 9 prostate removals for cancer, 3 kidney removals for tumor, one ureteral reimplant, and a bladder and…

  • Davinci S- the newest robot from intuitive surgical

    The new Davinci S made an appearance this week in New Jersey. I had a chance to trial it today.

  • Robotic Surgery Growth- Asia

    Robotic general surgery guru will be in Dubai for Arab Health Source: AME info Dr. Susan Lim will be speaking in Dubai for Arab Health Conference Dr. Lim, who is the pioneer in Robotic general surgery both in Singapore and in Asia since 2004 and to date is the leader in the field, believes most…