Safety of Live Robotic Surgery: Results from a Single Institution

Live surgery events (LSEs) have become one of the most attended activities at surgical meetings and provide a unique opportunity for the audience to observe the decision-making process used by skilled and experienced surgeons in real time. However, there is an ongoing discussion on whether patients...

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Published in:European urology focus 2019-07, Vol.5 (4), p.693-697
Main Authors: Ogaya-Pinies, Gabriel, Abdul-Muhsin, Haidar, Palayapalayam-Ganapathi, Hariharan, Bonet, Xavier, Rogers, Travis, Rocco, Bernardo, Coelho, Rafael, Hernandez-Cardona, Eduardo, Jenson, Cathy, Patel, Vipul
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Language:English
Subjects:
Aged
Humans
Live surgery
Live surgical event
Male
Middle Aged
Prostatectomy - methods
Prostatic Neoplasms - surgery
Retrospective Studies
Robotic prostatectomy
Robotic Surgical Procedures - adverse effects
Robotic Surgical Procedures - methods
Safety
Treatment Outcome
Urology
Webcasts as Topic
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Summary:Live surgery events (LSEs) have become one of the most attended activities at surgical meetings and provide a unique opportunity for the audience to observe the decision-making process used by skilled and experienced surgeons in real time. However, there is an ongoing discussion on whether patients treated during LSE are at higher risk of complications. To examine LSE outcomes for robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) and establish patient safety and efficacy. From January 2008 to April 2016, >9000 patients underwent RARP at our institution, performed by a single surgeon. From this group, 36 patients underwent live RARP surgery (LS group) transmitted via video link from our institution to an external congress. A control group was obtained from our database to compare outcomes between the LS group and patients undergoing RARP under regular circumstances. The data were prospectively collected in a customized database and retrospectively analyzed. All patients underwent RARP performed by a single surgeon at our institution. Postoperative outcomes were compared between the LS (n=36) and the control (n=108) groups using Student’s t test and analysis of variance for continuous variables, and a two-tailed Fisher’s exact test for categorical variables. Statistical significance was set at p
ISSN:2405-4569
2405-4569
DOI:10.1016/j.euf.2017.08.004