[mikethern]

What do you fellow nurses think about the future of davinci robotic surgery? Do you think it will take off or do you think it's just a gimmick?

[CIRQL8]

I tried starting a thread like this before - it didn't take off.

I think that robotic surgery is going to take off. It will take LOTS of time though. The extra time for docking the robot (even jsut a couple of minutes) is a big turn off for physicians. They do not like the learning curve to get used to it. Staff has trouble adjusting to the added set-up as well.

I'm the robot team leader at my hospital, and personally, I like it. I think that eventually, it will catch on more.

Maybe it will be common by the time I retire (in about 25 years...)

[KristinWW]

I believe in robotics, although we don't have DaVinci at my facility. I've heard from another place that it keeps breaking. Any one else have problems? I'd love to get my hands on it!

[CIRQL8]

We've had the machine 'break down' on us once in two years, and two or three times the extra instrument arm faulted. In the case of the arm, we were able to continue with the three major arms (one camera, two instrument). Service is excellent (better be w/ a 100,000-ish dollar annual upkeep fee!). Responds to the facility within 24-36 hours, with the item needing to be replaced (fault codes tell them what part(s) they need).

I will be attending a robotics coordinator program this February. I'm sure that I will learn a lot more then!

[Rezidentura]

Robotic Surgery is definetly the future. I got trained at the John Hopkins DaVinci lab and the Doc who was training us had a lot of incite on this. As The bandwith necessary to facilitate long distance DaVinci procedures is brought on line I think you see an increase in these.

Can you say "Replacement".

[mikethern]

Originally Posted by Rezidentura

Robotic Surgery is definetly the future. I got trained at the John Hopkins DaVinci lab and the Doc who was training us had a lot of incite on this.

Half of my retirement funds are invested in ISRG, the company that makes the davinci robot, so I hope you're right.