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Essentials of Robotic Surgery

1 March 2014 | Conrad V Bishop | Technological Developments

Essentials of Robotic Surgery is an ambitious attempt to educate the readership on the history and current applications of robotic surgery in today’s operating theatre. Aimed at primary care providers and other health care specialists, it provides an overview on...

An update on robotic surgery in urology

2 November 2023 | Ata Jaffer, Angus Bruce, Daniel Chia, Prokar Dasgupta, Ben Challacombe | Technological Developments, Urologic Oncology

The early adoption of new technology has long been a trademark of urological surgeons. Like the introduction of the cystoscope, lasers and flexible endoscopy, the field of urology has witnessed a revolutionary transformation with the advent of robotic surgery. Robotic-assisted...

Near-infrared fluorescence in robotic surgery

1 July 2015 | Gokul Vignesh Kanda Swamy | Reconstructive Urology, Urologic Oncology

This is a systematic review and critical analysis of the current evidence on the applications of near-infrared fluorescence (NIRF) in robotic urologic surgery. It uses indocyanine green (ICG), a sterile water-soluble dye which has been tested in various fields. In...

Is outpatient robotic surgery feasible in children?

12 October 2022 | Neil Featherstone | Paediatric Urology | ambulatory surgical procedures

Minimally invasive surgery has helped to achieve shorter hospitalisations, reduce postoperative pain and analgesia requirements and provides better cosmetic results. Robotic urological outpatient surgery has been examined in recent times in the adult population; here Neheman et al. look at...

Perspectives on the 9th Worldwide Robotic Surgery Event

20 May 2020 | Ben Challacombe | Urologic Oncology, COVID-19 - Urology News

I was honoured to be invited again to participate in this year’s Worldwide Robotic Surgery Event (WRSE). Taking place in the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic, when medical meetings and congresses have been cancelled, training disrupted and health systems...

Cutting-edge or over-hyped? Evaluating the role of robotic surgery in the management of renal cell carcinoma

3 May 2024 | Gianluca Maresca, Alexander Laird | Urologic Oncology

The quest for a minimally-invasive approach to major abdominal surgery finds its roots at the start of the previous century, when Georg Kelling first described the technique of ‘ceolioscopy’ to inspect intraabdominal organs in 1901 [1]. Since those early days,...