René J Sotelo, Alexander Haese, Victor Machuca, Luis Medina, Luciano Nuñez, Flavio Santinelli, Andrés Hernandez, Ali Riza Kural, Alexander Mottrie, Camilo Giedelman, Mariano Mirandolino, Kenneth Palmer, Ronney Abaza, Reza Ghavamian, Arieh Shalhav, Alireza Moinzadeh, Vipul Patel, Michael Stifelman, Ingolf Tuerk, David Canes
BACKGROUND: The uptake of robotic surgery has led to changes in potential operative complications, as many surgeons learn minimally invasive surgery, and has allowed the documentation of such complications through the routine collection of intraoperative video. OBJECTIVE: We documented intraoperative complications from robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) with the aim of reporting the mechanisms, etiology, and necessary steps to avoid them. Our goal was to facilitate learning from these complications to improve patient care...
February 2016: European Urology