Vice Chair, International Surgery

Offers clear guidance on the procedures most commonly performed in a robotic operating room

Includes procedures from many surgical disciplines

Reviews the basics, including technology and operating room setup

Addresses key issues relating to cost, adoption, and training

Relevant to surgeons at all levels

History of Robots and Robotic Surgery.- Robotic Operating Rooms.- Developing a Robotic Surgical Program.- Legal Aspects of Setting-up a Robotic Program.- Financial Considerations in Robotic Surgery.- Visualization in Robotic Surgery.- Workflow in Robotic Surgery.- Anesthetic Implications of Robotic Surgery: Positioning and Access.- Urgent and Emergent Conversions in Robotic Surgery.- Hybrid Robot-assisted Surgery.- Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy.- Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy.- Robot-Assisted Adrenalectomy .- Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Cystoprostatectomy and Anterior Exenteration.- Robotic Pelvic and Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection.- Hysterectomy with Bilateral Salpingo-oophorectomy.- Radical Hysterectomy.- Robotic-Assisted Sacrocolpopexy.- Total Gastrectomy.- Radical Distal Subtotal Gastrectomy and D2 Lymphadenectomy for Gastric Cancer.- Multiport and Single-Site Robotic Cholecystectomy.- Colectomy.- Robotic Total Colectomy.- Robotic Low Anterior Resection.- Transanal Excision.- Robotic Distal Pancreatectomy.- Robotic Pancreatoduodenectomy.- Robotic Pyloric Preserving Pancreaticoduodenectomy.- Liver Resection: Right Lobectomy.- Robotic Partial Hepatectomy.- Robot-Assisted Bariatric Surgery.- Robotic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.- Robotic Operations for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease.- Heller Myotomy.- Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy (RAMIE): The Ivor Lewis Approach.- Robotic Pulmonary Resections.- Robotic Mediastinal Surgery.- Transoral Robotic Surgery.- Robotic-assisted Ventral Hernia Repair.- Inguinal Hernia Repair.- Robotic Transaxillary Thyroidectomy: A Modified Protocol for the Western Medical Community.- Thyroidectomy: Robotic Facelift Approach.- Transaxillary Robotic Modified Radical Neck Dissection.