Erschienen in:
12.06.2018 | Editorial
Re: Robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy: assistant’s seniority has no influence on perioperative course
verfasst von:
Igor Sorokin, Jessica Nelson, Noah E. Canvasser
Erschienen in:
Journal of Robotic Surgery
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Ausgabe 3/2018
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Excerpt
In the third Journal of Robotic Surgery (JORS) Twitter™ journal club, we discussed Abu-Ghanem and colleague’s manuscript on the role of the bedside assistant in robotic surgery [
1]. This study specifically looked at the short-term perioperative outcomes after robotic prostatectomy by an experienced single surgeon. Bedside assistants were separated into either faculty, post-graduate year (PGY) 1–3 residents, and PGY 4–6 residents. Analyzing 106 consecutive cases, the authors found that assistant’s seniority had no influence on total operative time, blood loss, complications, or hospital length of stay. An editorial written on this same article by Cadeddu noted that these findings should be reassuring to both the surgeon and the patient [
2]. Since the bedside assistant is an integral part of robotic surgery, this topic was further discussed in our journal club [see supplementary table 1]. …
