Tag: Dr Savatta and hospitals

  • Robotic Inguinal Hernia Surgery at the time of Robotic Prostatectomy

    Source: Journal of Robotic Surgery, Volume 1, Number 4 / February, 2008 Conclusion Urological surgeons should be encouraged to perform a thorough inguinal exam during preoperative evaluation and intraoperatively to detect subclinical hernias. Inguinal herniorrhaphy done concurrently at the time of RALP is safe, with no added morbidity and should be routinely performed. This is…

  • Dr. Savatta’s personal blog

    Thoughts from a robotic surgeon I have started this blog to express some of my personal thoughts. I started the robotic surgery blog (http://www.roboticsurgeryblog/) 16 months ago and will still write there along with several other robotic surgeons. I wanted a forum that I could share my more personal thoughts, some maybe controversial or personal.…

  • Haptics in the news

    “It always helps to be able to feel what you are doing, to feel the tissue tension and to feel the force when manipulating a suture,” says Domenico Savatta, chief of minimally invasive and robotic urology surgery at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. “Haptics would make it easier to learn robotic surgery, operate on things…