NRI Doctors lead in robotics for surgery

New York, March 31, 2005

NRI surgeons are leading the trend of using robotics in surgeries as operating rooms in the US become increasingly hi-tech.

Vipul Patel MD, Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery
Urology Centers of Alabama, Birmingham

From prostatectomy to coronary artery bypass, surgeons depend more and more on robotics. The results, they say, are impressive in terms of patient recovery.

"In the US, robotics is now very common with over 10,000 surgeries being performed a year. It is growing quickly on the international scene too," Vipul Patel, a Birmingham, Alabama, surgeon.......More

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The da Vinci Surgical System's surgical instruments are the same diameter of a pencil and the ends of the instruments are the size of a dime....More

• March 13, 2005: Less invasive surgery is the way to go for prostate cancer, say some of the nearly 300 men at a reunion Saturday at St. Vincent's Hospital.

  They are among 500 men who have had prostate surgery performed by a robot controlled by a surgeon.

  "The procedure was first performed in Detroit in 2000, and we have done it here since 2002," said Dr. Vipul Patel, director of minimally invasive surgery for Urology Centers of Alabama. He also is affiliated with St. Vincent's...More

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NEW ORLEANS, LA -- October 12, 2004: According to researcher, Vipul Patel MD, Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Urology Centers of Alabama, Birmingham, the average blood loss in the first 300 men who underwent robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy prostatectomy in the past 2 years was less than 50 mL, which is 300 to 2000 mL less than the typical amount of blood lost during standard open surgery......More

 

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