Dr.Brian Golden Interview about new da Vinci Robot

This interview was conducted in October, 2007, just after the da Vinci S Surgical System was installed at St.Rose Dominican Hospital, Siena Campus, in Las Vegas, NV. Dr. Golden is fellowship trained in laparoscopic surgery, including robotic prostatectomy, and was the first surgeon to utilize this particular machine in the operating room. For more information about Dr. Golden, go to http://www.UroNV.com

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Science & Technology

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• prostate
• cancer
• daVinci
• da
• Vinci
• robot
• urology
• robotic
• radical
• prostatectomy

[BrianGolde]

While it is called a "robot," this actually a misnomer. The daVinci surgical system is a master-slave system, in which the remote arms only do with the instruments exactly what the surgeon does with his fingers in the controllers. There is no autonomous movement by the machine, differentiating itself from a true robot.

[smartrudman]

The da Vinci surgical system mis a robotic surgical system. It is most commonly used for prostatectomies, cardiac valve repair and gynecologic surgical procedures, but can be used for any abdominal or thoracic surgical procedures. It has four robotic arms, three of them are for tools that hold objects, act as a scalpel, scissors, bovie, or unipolar or dipolar electrocautery instruments. The fourth arm uses a camera with two lenses that gives full stereoscopic vision from the console.