The Robotic Surgeon Blog

  • Uro Stream- Urology Blog by keagirl

    Scouting the blog world, I found an excellent blog from another urologist: Uro Stream: RANDOM THOUGHTS AND RANTS FROM YOUR FRIENDLY UROLOGIST keagirl Occupation: Urologist Location: A Big City, USA About Me I’m convinced that I am a frustrated veterinarian at heart. However, my unfortunate allergies to most rodents, felines and equines led me to…

  • Profitability of Robotic Surgery: Hospital Perspective

    Analysis: Robot’s financial impact mixed Whether a hospital can break even or make a profit with the da Vinci device appears to turn on factors like the specific health plans in a particular market, the mix of Medicare patients, and the efficiency in using the robot. And most facilities seem to lose money at the…

  • 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,…

  • Robotic Surgery Blog Subscription

    I have added an easy way to subscribe to the robotic surgery blog. I will be linking to feedburner, which will allow you to subscribe to the blog by importing entries into your my yahoo, google home page, etc. The link is on the right nav: Subscribe to Blog (RSS) >>

  • 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…

  • Bladder Replacements from patients own tissue

    From Reuters An article about Dr. Atala and his pioneering work in making new bladders out of cells grown from the patient. Dr. Atala performed this for children and his main focus is in making organs out of a patient’s own cells that could be used transplantation. I can also envision the day when we…

  • 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…