The Robotic Surgeon Blog

  • Newark Beth Israel in the news

    The Hudson Reporter – Science fiction surgery showcased Robotic medical technology on display in Secaucus “I used to do a lot of open surgery operations,” he said. “Once I learned how to use the robot, I became able to do most of my big operations, including prostate cancer operations, in a way that is minimally…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Kidney cancer upstaging is not uncommon

    UroToday – Significant Discrepancy Between Clinical and Pathologic Staging in Renal Cell Carcinoma: “These data suggest that nearly 20% of patients with clinical stage T1 tumors may be upstaged after nephrectomy. The observed differences in recurrence-free survival and disease-specific survival provide additional evidence supporting intact specimen extraction after laparoscopic nephrectomy in cases of suspected malignancy.…

  • 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…

  • Subscribe to individual entries to keep track of what others say

    I am very pleased to announce a very nice upgrade to the robotic surgery blog. I have installed a plugin that allows users who make comments to blog entries to subscribe to that entry. You can then receive an email if someone else makes additional comments. You will get an email to confirm that you…