Main description:

Recent advances in technology and instrumentation, mean that robot-assisted surgery has become increasingly established as an alternative to traditional open surgeries.

This book is a practical guide to robotic surgery, beginning with an overview of the techniques and anaesthesia, highlighting the vital role played by anaesthetists in early patient recovery.

The following sections cover all major surgical subspecialties including, general surgery, thoracic and vascular, gynaecological, urogynaecological, and paediatric and adult urology.

The text is highly illustrated with clinical images and tables, and is further enhanced by an interactive DVD ROM demonstrating robotic surgical procedures including sleeve gastrectomy, rectopexy, hysterectomy, hernia repair, and much more.

Key points

Practical guide to robotic surgery covering all major subspecialties
Provides overview of techniques and anaesthesia
Highly illustrated with clinical images and tables
Includes interactive DVD ROM demonstrating robotic surgical procedures

Contents:

Section 1: Robot and Surgery

Robotic Surgery: Past, Present and Future
Ergonomics
Immunofluorescence and Robotic Surgery
Anesthesia

Section 2: General Surgery

Bariatric Surgery: Sleeve Operation
Robot-assisted Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass
Benign Bowel Conditions
Carcinoma Rectum
Biliary Tumors

Section 3: Thoracic and Vascular Surgery

Thymus
Lung Resection
Esophagectomy
Vascular Surgery

Section 4: Gynecology

Myomectomy
Controversies in Myomectomy
Robotics in Benign Gynaecology
Sentinal Lymph Node Mapping in Gynecological Cancer
Robotic Staging Surgery for Endometrial Cancer
Endometrial Cancer
Ovarian Cystectomy

Section 5: Urogynecology

Vesicovaginal Fistula Repair

Section 6: Pediatric Urology

Pediatric Urology: The First Hundred Cases

Section 7: Adult Urology

Radical Prostatectomy
Role of Pelvic Lymphadenectomy in Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy
Robot-assisted Radical Cystoprostatectomy
Partial Nephrectomy
Donor Nephrectomy
Adrenalectomy
Urolithiasis: Expanding the Horizons of Robotic Surgery
Pyeloplasty
Ureteric Reimplantation