Tag: robotic surgery

  • 3 experts discuss their experience with robotic surgery

    Symposium: Robotic surgery in urology: Hype, hope, and reality – Modern Medicine Community urologists who want to learn this must have an adequate volume of cases, at least 20 prostatectomies a year, and it probably will take 20 or 30 procedures before they are comfortable. For someone doing less than 20 cases a year, it…

  • Robotic surgery summary- April 2007

    April has been traditionally a slow month in my practice. Last year it was the only month that I did less than 12 robotic surgeries (I only did 9). This year I performed 16 robotic surgeries in April.

  • Prostate cancer options now on google documents.

    My prostate cancer counseling sheet.  This is meant to give an idea of the major forms of prostate cancer therapy and are the main one I focus on at a consultation for newly diagnosed prostate cancer.  This should only be used under the supervision of a urologist. A printable form can be found online. This…

  • Welcome to a medical oncology blogger

    Dr.Kattlove’s Cancer Blog: If you have prostate cancer, that isn’t a bad idea. Recently surgeons from Detroit’s Henry Ford Hospitals reported their outcomes using the da Vinci robotic system in over 2500 men (European Urology 2007;51:648-58). With the da Vinci, which has been in use in the U.S. for prostate cancer surgery since 2000, the…

  • Robotic reliability

    I often get asked about the reliability of the daVinci robot and can it break down. I also received a comment from a reader about a bad experience with her husbands robotic surgery. In my 299 robotic operations, we have had several problems. The daVinci robots are complicated mechanical devices. They can break down. Robots…

  • daVinci Prostatectomy in Thailand

    The Nation: Surgical success story Siriraj Hospital yesterday successfully carried out Thailand’s first prostate operation using a revolutionary robotic surgery system, which claims to reduce trauma and side-effects. The growth in robotic sales outside the US seems to be growing.

  • Robotic Surgery Growth: End of 2006

    This is a monthly update on the growth of Robotic Surgery in my practice. I passed the 2 year anniversary of my first robotic operation this past month (Dec 13th). There have been amazing things that have been done since then. I have been able to perform “perfect” nerve sparing radical prostatectomies in as little…

  • Robotic Surgery Growth: November 2006

    November 2006 robotic breakdown For November I performed 21 robotic operations: 15 robotic prostate removals (dvP), 2 removals of a part of a kidney (robotic simple nephrectomy), 1 kidney (robotic nephrectomy), 2 removals of parts of a prostate for BPH (simple prostatectomy), and 1 reconstruction. This was the 1st month that I performed 20 robotic…

  • 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…