1-year Skill Retention Following Proficiency-Based Training for Robotic Surgery
Julia F Chen, Andrea M Alexander, MD, Deborah C Hogg, BS, Daniel J Scott, MD UT Southwestern Medical Center Introduction: We previously reported face, content, and construct validity as well as high reliability measures and significant performance improvement for 9 inanimate exercises as part of a comprehensive, proficiency-based robotic training curriculum. The purpose of this… Continue Reading
A Comparative Study of Robotic Sleeve Gastrectomy and Robotic Gastric Bypass: A Single Institution Experience.
Anthony M Gonzalez, MD, FACS, FASMBS, Jorge R Rabaza, MD, FACS, FASMBS, Rupa Seetharamaiah, MD, FACS, Charan Donkor, MD, Rey Romero, MD, Radomir Kosonovic, MD, Jonathan Arad, MD Baptist Health South Florida, Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine INTRODUCTION: Obesity has evolved into a worldwide epidemic affecting people of all ages, races and… Continue Reading
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Can We Become Better Robot Surgeons Through Simulator Practice?
Ankit Patel, MD, Meghna Patel, PhD, ABPP, Nathan Lytle, MD, Juan P Toro, MD, Sheryl Bluestein, MBA, MHA, John Sweeney, MD, S S Davis, MD, Edward Lin, DO, MBA Emory Endosurgery Unit, Department of Surgery INTRODUCTION - Current prerequisites for robot surgery training include completion of simulator drills designed to demonstrate basic skill acquisition. However,… Continue Reading
Concurrent launch of a Robotic general surgery program and trainee curriculum: initial experience
Ryan M Juza, MD, Vinay Singhal, MD, Tung Tran, MD, Eric Pauli, MD, Randy Haluck, MD, Ann M Rogers, MD, Jerome R Lyn-Sue, MD Penn state Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Introduction Robotic surgery is gradually increasing its presence in the field of General Surgery and with this change comes the challenge of training our… Continue Reading
Early experience with robotic pancreatic surgery
Sabrina Piedimonte, MSc, Yifan Wang, Tsafrir Vanounou, MD, MBA, Simon Bergman, MD, MSc Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada INTRODUCTION – Robotic technology may allow surgeons to offer patients with pancreatic pathology the benefits of minimally invasive surgery, without compromising the technical aspects of the procedure or patient safety. The… Continue Reading
Eight Years’ Experience in Robotic Surgery: What Have We Learned?
Shireesh Saurabh, MD, Andres Castellanos, MD, Noah Saad, Wu S Andrew Drexel University College of Medicine Background: Robotic surgery is evolving into an important surgical approach in various fields of surgery. Its main advantage is that it can overcome deficiencies of conventional laparoscopic surgery. We aimed to evaluate our experience in robotic surgery over 8… Continue Reading
Full Robotic sub-total gastrectomy: Our initial experience
Giuseppe Spinoglio, MD, Fabio Priora, MD, Ferruccio Ravazzoni, MD, Luca Matteo Lenti, MD, Raoul Quarati, MD, Valeria Maglione, MD SS. Antonio e Biagio Hospital of Alessandria (IT). Surgical Department. Unit of Oncologic Surgery BACKGROUND: We present our initial experience in full robotic subtotal gastrectomy for gastric cancer. METHODS: Between March 2011 and September 2012, 23… Continue Reading
Nationwide Evaluation of Robotic Prostatectomy – Outcomes, Cost, and Regionalization Compared to Laparoscopic and Open
Blair A Wormer, MD, Kristopher B Williams, MD, Joel F Bradley, MD, Amanda L Walters, MS, Vedra A Augenstein, MD, Kristian T Dacey, MHA, Brant T Heniford, MD Carolinas Medical Center Introduction:Robotic prostatectomy (RP) is the most commonly performed robotic operation. The purpose of this study was to use a nationwide database to evaluate the… Continue Reading
No differences in short term morbidity and mortality in patients operated with Robot-Assisted laparoscopic colectomy for colonic cancer compared with laparoscopic colectomy: A case-controled study of 263 patients
Neel M Helvind, MS, Jens Ravn Eriksen, Phd, Anders Mogensen, MS, Buket Tas, MS, Jesper Olsen, MD, Henrik Loft Jakobsen, MD, Ismail Gogenur, DSc Dept. Surgical Gastroenterology. Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark BackgroundRobotic-assisted laparoscopy has been reported to be a safe and feasible alternative to traditional laparoscopy. The aim of this study was to compare… Continue Reading
Overlapping applications of bipolar-radiofrequency energy for tissue coagulation in a robot-assisted hepatic resection
Pier C Giulianotti, MD, FACS, Mario A Masrur, MD, Gianmarco Contino, MD, Xiaoying Wang, MD, Eduardo Fernandes, MD, Luca Milone, MD, Subhashini Ayloo, MD, FACS University of Illinois at Chicago Background: Habib Radiofrequency assisted liver resection allows hepatectomies to be performed with minimal blood loss, a desirable feature in the setting of minimally invasive liver… Continue Reading
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Prospective randomized trial comparing Robotic against laparoscopic suture for closure of gastric perforation in ex-vivo model
Liu Liu, PhD, Philip Chiu, MD, Anthony Teoh, FRCSEd, Simon Wong, FRCSEd, Shirley Liu, FRCSEd, Cch Lam, RN, Enders Ng, MD Dept of Surgery and CUHK Jockey Club Minimally Invasive Surgical Skills Center, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Aims: To compare the performance of Da Vinci Surgical Robotic suturing (DVSS) against laparoscopic suturing (LS)… Continue Reading
Robot Assisted Gastroesophageal Valvuloplasty: An Alternative Anti-Reflux Surgical Procedure
Mohammed Kalan, MD, Mark Meyer, MD, Marc Margolis, MD, Barbara Tempesta, CRNP, Eric Strother, CSA, Farid Gharagozloo, MD The Washington Institute of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and the Washington Surgical Institute at The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC. The University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ INTRODUCTION: The normal antireflux barrier consists… Continue Reading
Robot Assisted Giant Hiatal Hernia Repair
Mohammed Kalan, MD, Mark Meyer, MD, Barbara Tempesta, CRNP, Marc Margolis, MD, Eric Strother, CSA, Farid Gharagozloo, MD The Washington Institute of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and the Washington Surgical Institute at The George Washington University Hospital, Washington, DC. The University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ INTRODUCTION: Conventionally, the surgical approach to these… Continue Reading
Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Repair of a Giant Paraesophageal Hernia
Mario A Masrur, MD, Gianmarco Contino, MD, Luca Milone, MD, Eduardo Fernandes, MD, Enrique F Elli Division of General, Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. IntroductionParaesophageal hernia repair is one of the most challenging procedures in minimally invasive surgery, mostly due to the small space… Continue Reading
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Robot-Assisted Partial Gastrectomy for the Treatment of Gastro-Intestinal Stromal Tumors
Jack W Rostas, MD, Tiffany H Patterson, BS, Russell E Brown, MD, Lee W Thompson, MD Department of General Surgery, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL; Cancer Surgery of Mobile, Mobile Infirmary Medical Center, Mobile, AL Introduction: The treatment of primary gastro-intestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) of the stomach is resection with microscopically negative margins (R0… Continue Reading