Robotic Surgery
From the Journals
Robotic-assisted IHR causes fewer complications in obese patients
Robotic-assisted surgery proves beneficial in inguinal hernia repair.
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Predicting extraction of an intact uterus in robotic-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy
SAN ANTONIO – Surgeons can calculate their ability to deliver an intact uterus vaginally during laparoscopic hysterectomy by using a new scoring...
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Confirmatory blood typing unnecessary for closed prolapse repairs
SAN ANTONIO – It may be safe to skip the preoperative blood type and antibody screening before closed apical prolapse repairs, but the same can’t...
From the Journals
Robot-assisted surgery can be a pain
Robot-assisted surgery may be have more potential to cause workplace injury to the operator than previously believed.
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Robot-assisted surgery: Twice the price
HOUSTON – Robot-assisted operations for inguinal hernia repair and cholecystectomy have grown steadily in recent years, but how do costs compare...
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Robotics: General surgery goes its own way
HOUSTON – General surgeons are adopting robot-assisted surgery, but the adoption patterns differ from those of the subspecialties.
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VIDEO: Pain and impaired QOL persist after open endometrial cancer surgery
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. – The disability from open surgery was “maintained even at 3 months, and it was clinically and statistically different.”
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Robotic PCI success rates higher with radial access
WASHINGTON – Registry data shows higher success rate for radial versus femoral access in robotic percutaneous coronary interventions.
From the Journals
Lower analgesic use after robotic pelvic surgery
Postoperative use of both opioid and nonopioid analgesics was lower after robotic surgery than after laparotomy for endometrial cancer.
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Open, laparoscopic, robotic approaches all sound for distal pancreatectomy
WASHINGTON – The three approaches to distal pancreatectomy – open, laparoscopic, and robotic – are equally safe and oncologically sound methods in...
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Robotic surgery instruments ‘virtually impossible’ to clean completely
The level of contamination declined with each successive cleaning but still remained comparatively high for the robotic instruments.