The Robotic Surgeon Blog

  • 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.

  • PACRIM – Anesthesia

    Debra Morrison, MD, anesthesiologist at UCI gave a talk on anesthesia and robotic prostatectomy. While many of the points she reviewed have been covered elsewhere, there were a couple of suggestions that she had that I had not heard of before. She mentioned that with the extreme Trendelenburg position not only is the diaphragm pushed…

  • PACRIM Robotics Conference – dVP times

    I attended the PACRIM conference Sponsored by the Univ. of California, Irvine in early January. There were several interesting presentations and I plan to post a summary of different ones from time to time. The first in the series is regarding a presentation made by Dr. Randy Fagin from Austin, TX, on “Achieving a Time…

  • Robotic General Surgery Procedure

    Boy With Rare Swallowing Disorder Has Robotic Surgery at University of Illinois at Chicago Source: AScribe Newswire

  • Grand Rounds for 1/24/2006

    Kevin, MD hosts this weeks grand rounds: Welcome to Grand Rounds, the weekly best the medical blogosphere has to offer, and a hello to all the new readers from WebMD. I’m honored to be hosting for the third time – it has come a long way since Kevin, M.D. last hosted way back in 2004.

  • 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…

  • Telling someone they have prostate cancer

    One of the most difficult things that a urologist has to do is to tell his patient that he has cancer. I recently had a somewhat heated debate with my partner in robotic surgery. Prostate cancer is the leading solid organ cancer in men and is diagnosed by a biopsy in the office. The reasons…

  • Medblog Grand Rounds 1/17/2006

    Gruntdoc hosted this weeks grand rounds. Thanks.

  • The biggest operation on the oldest patient

    Robotic Surgery Bladder Cancer Nonagenarian Kling