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Colorado doctor accused of botching multiple robotic kidney surgeries (+) da Vinci Robotic surgery Video: Partial Nephrectomy for Kidney Cancer (Video Reports)

Featured Image: Schematic layout of operating room for robotic prostate surgery/ Layout drawing of surgery suite from a bird’s-eye perspective with positions of robot, screens, surgery table, instrument console, noted. SOURCE: National Cancer Institute .

[NOTE:Operating robot marked as “Surgical  Cart” in  the above Diagram. While this diagram is of a layout of a robotic medical procedure which might not be the exact layout the Colorado surgeon in this report used it gives us an idea of the basic set-up of a robotic surgery operating room. . . .EDITOR] 

From CBS News By RYAN JASLOW / CBS NEWS/ April 12, 2013, 2:54 PM

A Colorado surgeon is being investigated for botching at least 11 surgeries at a Denver hospital.

Accusations against Dr. Warren Kortz, a surgeon at Porter Adventist Hospital in Denver, include leaving sponges and surgical equipment in patients and improperly using robotic surgery tools for kidney “procedures,” CBS Denver reported. . . . Read Complete Report 

From youtube uploaded by Ketan Badani

Robotic Partial Nephrectomy – daVinci Partial Nephrectomy for Kidney Cancer

Uploaded on Jan 30, 2011

Dr. Ketan K. Badani, Director of Robotic Surgery, performs and narrates a robotic partial nephrectomy using the daVinci surgical system.

WARNING! Actual operation. Very graphic.  Best if viewed in FULL SCREEN Mode.

McSleepy Meets DaVinci: Doctors Conduct First-Ever All-Robotic Surgery and Anesthesia

Photo: DaVinci workstation manned by Dr. Aprikian. (Credit: Image courtesy of McGill University Health Centre) Source: Science Daily 

from Science Daily

ScienceDaily (Oct. 20, 2010) — In a world first, a completely robotic surgery and anesthesia has been performed at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC). The DaVinci surgical robot, which lets surgeons work from remote locations, was put to work this summer, whereas the anesthesia robot, nicknamed McSleepy, has been providing automated anesthesia since 2008. The two combined to perform the first all-robotic surgery on a prostatectomy patient at the Montreal General Hospital. . . . Read Complete Report