Surgery

Senhance robotic radical prostatectomy: A single-centre, 3-year experience.

BACKGROUND: Senhance Surgical System is a novel robotic platform used in University Hospital Centre Zagreb since February 2019. In this study, we present our 3-year experience with this platform.

Establishment of a successful robotic pediatric general surgery practice.

Robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) has a variety of theoretical advantages, including tremor filtration, optimal visualization, and improvement of surgeon ergonomics. Though it has achieved wide application in pediatric urology, the majority of pediatric general surgeons do not employ RAS. This study reports our institution's experience with RAS on a pediatric general surgery team. Following IRB appro...

Efficacy of robot-assisted vs. laparoscopy surgery in the treatment of colorectal cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

PURPOSE: To compare the efficacy of robot-assisted colorectal surgery (RACS) vs. laparoscopic-assisted colorectal surgery (LACS) in the treatment of c...

Towards Precision Medicine in Spinal Surgery: Leveraging AI Technologies.

This critique explores the implications of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) technology, specifically OpenAI's advanced language model GPT-4 an...

Effect of pre-operative warm-up on trainee intraoperative performance during robot-assisted hysterectomy: a randomized controlled trial.

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: The objective was to study the effect of immediate pre-operative warm-up using virtual reality simulation on intraoperati...

Experience matters for robotic assistance: an analysis of case data.

Many robotic procedures require active participation by assistants. Most prior work on assistants' effect on outcomes has been limited in procedural f...

Retrospective single-surgeon study of prone versus lateral robotic pedicle screw placement: a CT-based assessment of accuracy.

OBJECTIVE: Lateral lumbar interbody fusion including anterior-to-psoas oblique lumbar interbody fusion has conventionally relied on pedicle screw plac...

Continuous Blood Pressure Monitoring in Patients Having Surgery: A Narrative Review.

Hypotension can occur before, during, and after surgery and is associated with postoperative complications. Anesthesiologists should thus avoid profou...

Single-Port Robotic Removal of a Submucosal Foreign Body in the Distal Hypopharynx.

In this report, we present a 55-year-old female with cervical stenosis that underwent C5-C7 anterior cervical discectomy and fusion surgery complicate...

Do advances in technology translate to improved outcomes? Comparing robotic bariatric surgery outcomes over two-time intervals utilizing the MBSAQIP database.

BACKGROUND: This study aims to compare outcomes and utilization of robotics in bariatric procedures across two-time intervals, chosen because they cor...

Systematic review: robot-assisted versus conventional laparoscopic multiport cholecystectomy.

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy has become the standard of care for the treatment of symptomatic gallstone disease. In the context of the increasing upta...

Laparoscopic versus robotic abdominal and pelvic surgery: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials.

BACKGROUND: The current evidence is inconclusive on whether robotic or laparoscopic surgery is the optimal platform for minimally invasive surgery. Ex...

Impact of Additional Administration of von Willebrand Factor Concentrates to Thrombocyte Transfusion in Perioperative Bleeding in Cardiac Surgery.

BACKGROUND: Von Willebrand factor (vWF) is an important part of blood coagulation since it binds platelets to each other and to endothelial cells. In ...

Robot-assisted augmented reality surgical navigation based on optical tracking for mandibular reconstruction surgery.

PURPOSE: This work proposes a robot-assisted augmented reality (AR) surgical navigation system for mandibular reconstruction. The system accurately su...

Early perioperative outcomes of single-port compared to multi-port robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy.

Single-port (SP) robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (RAPN) is a promising new technique. The aim of this study was to compare surgical an...

Comparison of surgical outcomes between robot-assisted and conventional laparoscopic hysterectomy for large uterus.

We compared the effectiveness of conventional total laparoscopic hysterectomy (TLH) against robot-assisted total hysterectomy (RAH) in patients with a...

Robotic distal pancreatectomy using a docking-free system (the hinotori™ Surgical Robot System).

BACKGROUND: Although robotic surgery has rapidly spread in pancreatectomy [1], the procedure is performed by the da Vinci™ Surgical System (Intuitive ...

[Application possibilities of digital tools in postoperative pain therapy].

BACKGROUND: Recently, digital tools, such as smartphone-based applications and the use of artificial intelligence have increasingly found their way in...

Propensity-matched analysis of robotic versus sternotomy approaches for mitral valve replacement.

To compare early and medium-term outcomes between robotic and sternotomy approaches for mitral valve replacement (MVR). Clinical data of 1393 cases wh...

The safe introduction of robotic surgery in a free-standing children's hospital.

The aim of this study is to report the experience of implementing a pediatric robotic surgery program at a free-standing pediatric teaching hospital. ...