"What a hospital wants- is good surgical outcomes," says Associate Professor (Robotic) Dr. Avanish Saklani, from the Tata Memorial Centre Department of GI and Colorectal Surgical Oncology. Speaking to the Robotic Surgeons Council of India, he talks about the value of good volumes, because...
Dr. Vinay Mahendra, Senior Consultant Urologist, Laparoscopic & Robotic Urological Surgeon and Renal Transplant Surgeon at Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata has been performing robotic donor nephrectomies for nearly seven years. He compares laparoscopic donor nephrectomies to robotic, both with published literature and personal experience....
Full title: Facelift and Retroauricular Approach for Posterior Segmental Mandubulectomy Combined With Robotic Assisted Neck Dissection in Management of Gingivobuccal Cancers. "We are all aware, oral cancer is a common problem for us," Dr. Vishal Rao, Consultant Head and Neck Surgical Oncologist & Robotic Surgeon,...
"For early oral cancers it is better to go ahead and do a neck dissection," claims Dr. Vishal Rao, Consultant Head and Neck Surgical Oncologist & Robotic Surgeon, HCG Cancer Centre, Bengaluru. He talks about patients concerns for scars, which were inevitable prior to...
Dr. Nikitha Shetty, Narayana Health City, Bengaluru, tells the Roboti Surgeons Council of India that, "In hernia repairs, robotic surgery provides a distinct advantage." She also shares surgery details from Dr. Ashwinikumar Kudari at Narayana, with PPT's, photos showing port placement, and robotic surgery...
"When we talk about outcomes," says Dr. Kaustubh Patel, Director & Head, Department of Head Neck Surgical Oncology, Aastha Oncology Associates, HCG Cancer Centre, Ahmedabad, "this probably is the only factor, which is modifiable in the hands of surgeons." Dr. Patel was referring to negative...
"In the last eleven months, I have done 24-partial neohrectomies, but only one was big." Dr. Kamlesh Patel tells the Robotic Surgeons Council of India. He presents the case of a 69-year-old man who was discovered to have a large left renal mass during...
Dr. Rooma Sinha, Senior Consultant and Minimal Access and Robotic Surgeon at Apollo Health City in Hyderabad, combined two Robotic Surgeons Council of India presentations to thoroughly cover robotic hysterectomy surgery, using data from Indian and global research. The complete title of her combined...
This recoded presentation was a part of the What is the Evidence? session for the Robotic Surgeons Council of India (RSC), presented by Additional Professor Dr. Ravimohan Mavuduru from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh. Dr. Mavuduru compares various...
"The partial nephrectomy has become the standard of care...
Dr. Abhinav Deshpande is the Vattikuti Fellow at Manipal Hospital Bangalore, working under Fellowship Director Dr. Somashekhar, S. P. Deshpande shares with the Robotic Surgeons Council of India some of the historic research which led up to the first sucessful uterus transplants in a...
It is a procedure which many surgeons in his audience have done, claims Dr. Gagan Gautam is the Head of Urologic Oncology & Robotic Surgery at Max Cancer Center, Saket, New Delhi, India. The aim of his presentation to the Robotic Surgeons Council of...
Dr. Rama Joshi, Director, Gynae Oncology, Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gugaon, reports to the Robotic Surgeons Council of India about a cohort of patients who had previously undergone surgery for gynecological malignancies at another institution- but needed further surgery for gynrcologic cancers. The goal,...
Dr. Percy Jal Chibber is a Consultsant Urologic Surgeon for Jaslok Hospital, Breach Candy Hospital and others in Mumbai. He is also a Past President of the Urological Society of India. He discusses methods of treating and monitoring patients with various prostate cancers...
Full title: Transoral Robotic Surgery: Intra-operative Events / Complications "Transoral robotic surgery is a relatively safe procedure," Dr. Surender Dabas, Director, Department of Surgical Oncology, Fortis Memorial Research Institute (FMRI) Gurgaon tells the Robotic Surgeons...
Dr Rooma Sinha, is a Consultant Gynecologist, Obstetrician, Urogynecologist, Laparoscopic & Robotic Surgeon at Apollo Hospitals Hyderabad. She describes to colleagues at the Robotic Surgeons Council of India the case of a morbidly obese 45-year old woman with a large Cervical fibroid....
Those who know and work with Dr. Mahendra Bhandari, CEO of the Vattikuti Foundation, realize what an active mind he has. Recently, he was asked to give an oration at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, honoring Professor Sarinder Man...
In February of 2018, Dr. Ashwin Tamhankar concluded his one-year Vattikuti Robotic Uro-oncology Fellowship with Dr. Gagan Gautam at Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket. He had no robotic surgery experience! Dr. Tamhankar told the Robotic Surgeons Council of India about his goals and...
There are complications that occur in robotic surgery that do not happen in laparoscopy, according to Prof. Dr. Somashekhar SP, Chairman & HOD Surgical Oncology, Manipal Health Enterprise; Consultant Surgical & Gynec.Onco & Robotic Surgeon, HIPEC Super specialist at Manipal Comprehensive Cancer Center. ...
"The best way to manage needle loss- is not to have one," says Dr. Rajesh Ahlawat, Group Chairman, Institute of Urology & Robotic Surgery for Medanta the Medicity. While no surgeon wants to have one, needles can come loose from where they have...
"This is something very close to me," claims Prof. Dr. Somashekhar SP, Chairman & HOD Surgical Oncology, Manipal Health Enterprise; Consultant Surgical & Gynec.Onco & Robotic Surgeon, HIPEC Super specialist at Manipal Comprehensive Cancer Center. He has a lot of experience as a mentor...
Full Title: Giving Trainees the Best Hands On Learning Experience, Ensuring Patient Safety. Dr. Rajesh Ahlawat is the Group Chairman, Institute of Urology & Robotic Surgery for Medanta the Medicity. He is also a...
Dr. Ravi Kant is the Director and CEO Of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh. He presented a short but significant Keynote Speech to the 10th Robotic Surgeons Council of India meeting in Mussoorie, May 5, 2018. ...
Abstract: TITLE : ROBOTIC VATS LEFT LOWER LOBECTOMY + SYSTEMATIC LYMPHADENECTOMY The video has three parts Part 1: The technical aspects of robotic lung surgery 1.Patient position : standard right lateral with table break at thorax and padding to...
This video earned 3rd Place in the robotic Surgeons Council of India KS Robotic Surgery Video Awards, May, 2018. (Scroll down past abstract to access video.) From...
This is the 2nd-Place Winner from the May, 2018 Robotic Surgeons Council of India Meetings KS Robotic Surgery video Awards. From the abstract: Srivathsan R, Yuvaraja T. B., Waigankar Santosh, Pednekar Abhinav ...
Full title: Comparison Of Standard Intuitive Port Placement Technique With Indian Modification ( Manipal ) Technique For Da Vinci ‘ X ‘, For Robotic Low Anterior Resection & Robotic Hysterectomy With Para Aortic Lymph Adenectomy This...
Dr. Somashekhar S. P., MS, MCh (oncosurgery, FRCS (Edin.), Chairman- Surgical Oncology, MHEPL, HOD & Consultant Surgical Oncologist for the Manipal Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Bangalore, India- presents the video of a 73-year old woman with a retroperitoneal tumor. He used the da...
In this promotional video, Doctors Chris Gorczynski and Louis A. DiGiovanni, Columbia Memorial Health, Hudson, NY, explain the Stryker Mako robotic surgical system....
American robotic surgeon Prof. J. Scott Magnuson, M. D. is known for his excellent lectures. The Chief Medical Officer, Florida Hospital Nicholson Center; Professor of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, UCF College of Medicine Medical Director Head and Neck Surgery shares his insights...
American robotic surgeon Prof. J. Scott Magnuson, M. D. is known for his excellent lectures. The Chief Medical Officer, Florida Hospital Nicholson Center; Professor of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, UCF College of Medicine Medical Director Head and Neck Surgery shares his insights...
Robot assisted extended pelvic lymph node dissection for bladder cancer: technique, extent and feasibility in minimal invasive era. Authors: Puneet Ahluwalia, Surya Ojha, Ashwin Tamhankar, Gagan Gautam Presenting author:...
"It's only the matter of the difference of the technique," says Dr. Rama Joshi, Director, Gynae Oncology at the Fortis Memorial Research Institute in Gurgaon. She tells the Robotic Surgeons Council of India about the contrasts between open surgery and robotic surgery. ...
"The partial nephrectomy is the treatment of choice for small renal masses," according to Dr. Anandan Murugesan, Consultant Urologist-Specialist in Robotic Surgery with the Kovai Medical Center and Hospitals, Coimbiatore. "Robot assisted surgery is preferred, especially for hilar tumors," Murugesan tells the Robotic...
November 2017 Robotic Surgeons Council of India KS Video Awards entry from Dr. Abishek Singh, Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital, Nadiad, India. Abstract: Introduction: ...
Dr. Venkatesh (Venky) Munikrishnan is a Consultant and Lead Colorectal Surgeon at Apollo Hospital, Chennai. He shares his experiences of setting up a new robotic colorectal surgery program. First, he talks about laparoscopic, and the transition to robotic surgery in 2015. ...
Dr. Jagannath Dixit is a GI Oncosurgeon at HCG Hospital, KNUMC, Bengaluru. He discusses the technique developed by S.Korean surgeon Dr. Choi, whom Dr. Dixit studied with. He talks about locating and isolating the disease (tumor) before opening the rectum and removing the...
Dr. Jagdish Kothari is a Gastro-Intestinal & Hepatobiliary oncosurgeon at HCG Cancer Centre, Ahmedabad. He has been performing robotic procedures for 18- months. Dr. Kothari begins by sharing some of the advantages he has realized with oncologic robotic surgery for intersphincteric resection: "The...
Shamit Chopra is the Director, Head/Neck & Microvascular Surgery at Patel Hospital, Jalandhar, Punjab. The full title of his presentation to the Robotic Surgeons Council of India, Goa, November 2017, is: Trans-oral robotic surgery vs. nonsurgical organ preservation in Early and Advanced Stage...
"This is a relatively new concept." says Dr. (Prof.) Arun Prasad, Senior Bariatric Surgeon & Chief of Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Center, Dept. of Minimal Access Surgery, Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, as he addresses the Robotic Surgeons Council of India. "With the dissection,...
Presented by Dr. Surender Dabas, Director, Surgical Oncology, Head Neck and Thoracic Services, Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurugram, India, to the Robotic Surgeons Council of India, Goa, 11-2017: "It was the robot, which caused me to move...
"If you don't give the option of Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS), sometimes it is very unfair to the patient...
"The debate about partial nephrectomy versus radical nephrectomy should be confined to history books" says Dr. Amrith Rao, Consultant, Renal Sciences for Manipal Hospital. The study encompasses 108 patients who received robot assisted partial nepthrectomies (RAPN over four years. 18% had complications and...
Dr. Vikram Sharma is Director & Head of Robotic Urological Surgery for the Fortis Memorial Research Institute. He tells the Robotic Surgeons Council of India that the groundbreaking robotic procedures of just five years ago are obsolete today (11-2017). Dr. Sharma also...
"A number of times the question is asked: In robotic surgery, complications happen. What would you do?" says Dr Anant Kumar, Chairman of Uro-Oncology, Robotic & Kidney Transplantation Max Hospital, Saket, New Delhi & Max Hospital, Vaishal. He was presenting to the...
Full title: Robotic ureteric reimplantation and reconstruction for distal ureteral pathology (VURT, primary obstructing megaureter, duplex and ectopic ureter): outcome in fifty seven cases. Dr. Sujit K. Chowdhary is Senior Consultant (Pediatric Urology) and Director, Pediatric...
"I was very anti-robotic. It was not something I was interested in," Dr. M. Brian Harkins, General Surgeon and Chairman, Robotics sub-committee, Department of Surgery, Tomball Regional Hospital, Texas told the November 2017 meeting of the Robotic Surgeons Council of India (RSC) in Goa....
Dr. Sanjay Addla is a Consultant Urologist for Apollo Hospital, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad. The full title is: How Risky is High-Risk Prostate Cancer? Lessons Learnt From 575 Robotic Radical Prostatectomies. Dr. Addla talks about the typical prostate cancer patient, who ends up...
Dr. Ashwin Tamhankar is the Vattikuti Fellow in Robotic Urooncology at Max Institute in Cancer Care, Max Superspeciality Hospital, Saket, New Delhi. He introduces his video to the Robotic Surgeons Council of India, which portrays potential problems encountered, and how other surgical teams...
Dr. (Prof.) Arun Prasad, Senior Bariatric Surgeon & Chief of Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Center, Dept. of Minimal Access Surgery, Apollo Hospital, New Delhi talks about robotic surgery and robotic bariatric-specific complications which may arise during surgery. He advises the Robotic Surgeons Council of...
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Consultant Dr. Vipin Tyagi talks about how robotic technique for a somewhat common congenital anomaly is becoming the 'Gold Standard.' Lecture, with PowerPoints and diagrams are accompanied by endoscopic video footage of stone removal. 05:26 ...
This video, presented by Atlantic Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, portrays the highlights of the Mako Robot Assisted Total Knee Replacement procedure. ...
We have the KS Robotic Surgery Awards winner in the Urology category from the Robotic Surgeons Council of India November 2017 meetings: Robotic Kidney Transplant with grafts having multiple renal arteries – Technical nuances ...
In this promotional video for the Holland (Michigan) Hospital Bone & Joint Center, we have an overview of the benefts of the Stryker Mako Robotic Arm Assisted Technology. Dr. Derek Johnson provides personal descriptions of how this system improves his procedures for...
"There's been a dramatic change in the way we treat patients, with the adoption of transoral robotic surgery." (TORS) claims Dr. J. Scott Magnuson, Medical Director, Head & Neck Surgery, Celebration Health System, Orlando, Florida, USA. He was addressing the Robotic Surgeons Council...
Associate Professor of Urology at the University of Michigan, Khurshid Ghani, MBChB, MS, FRCS(Urol) presented this topic at the Robotic Surgeons Council of India, November, 2017. He was awarded the "Best Paper in Robotic Surgery for 2017" in European Urology. (The award is sponsored...
Rajesh Ahlawat, Director of the Fortis Escorts Kidney & Urology Institute, is a respected pioneer in urologic robotic surgery. He asks the Robotic Surgeons Council of India a question many have had themselves: "How do you improve the functional outcome of a radical prostatectomy?"...
President & Founder of the Vattikuti Foundation, Mr. Raj Vattikuti has made a mark on history, funding the early robotic surgery research of Dr. Mani Menon. For nearly two decades, he has worked to promote robotic surgery knowledge and training. He addressed...
Intuitive Surgical Executive Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer Dave Rosa spoke to the November 2017 Robotic Surgeons Council of India (RSC). He talked about relationships: "It's about the people. Nothing happens without you in this room." He recognized some of the...
Drs. Reshu Agarwal & Anupama Rajanbabu of the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, India, produced this KS Robotic Surgery Award-winning video for the Robotic Surgeons Council of India. Here is their abstract: INTRODUCTION: ...
Produced by: Florida Orthopedic and Surgery Center, Dr. Kenneth Gustke, we have a short, but good explanation of the benefits of the Mako Surgical System. ...
Dr. Anupama Rajanbabu, Professor of Gynecologic Oncology at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences has produced an informational video for patients about robotic surgery and its advantages in the Malayalam language. She asked that we place it on our website, so that others could...
This video, produced for the Sharp Grossmont Hospital, gives a brief overview of the benefits of the Stryker Mako Robotic-Arm Assisted Surgery System. Learn how in this video featuring Dr. Steven Allsing, an orthopedic surgeon affiliated with Sharp Grossmont Hospital. ...
In this video produced by the Mayo Clinic, the benefits of robotic assisted joint surgery are presented by Dr. Cedric Ortiguera. ...
In less than one minute, robotic surgery pioneer Dr. Mani Menon explains the workings of this "Space Age" surgery to a live audience. Lecture, with robotic surgery videos 00:46 ...
Dr. Gagan Prakash, Assistant Professor, Dept of Uro-oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, shares his experience of over two years with the Intuitive Surgical da Vinci XI Surgical System. India's first Xi was installed at Tata Memorial in November, 2014. Dr. Prakash shows the Robotic...
Apollo Chennai surgeons Drs. Subhankar Paul, Raghunath K.J., and Ajit Pai were confronted with an elderly patient with an enhancing mass lesion, post wall of rectosigmoid junction. After further diagnostic studies (CECT scan, colonoscopy, ultrasound,PET scan and biopsy, a malignant tumor was the diagnosis....
Apollo Health City, Hyderabad Consultant Urologist and robotic surgeon Dr. D. V. S. L. N. Sharma details the case history of a 55-Y. O. female diagnosed with an RP mass. Another surgeon had previously attempted laparoscopic surgery on this patient. He talks...
The full title is too long for the space allotted above: Robotic Assisted Ureterolysis for relief of bilateral ureteric obstruction due to Ideopathic Retroperitoneal Fibrosis (IRPF). A team of surgeons from Indraprastha Apollo Delhi, Drs. Mahendra Sharma, Venkatesh Kumar and Anshuman Agarwal, tackle a...
Manipal Vattikuti Fellow Dr. Sushil Jain Kumar produced this video presentation for the April 2017 Robotic Surgeons Council of India. The traditional Low Anterior Resection (LAR) procedure is a technical challenge for the robot, according to his presentation. A means was devised...
Dr. Arun Prasad is the Sr. Consultant Surgeon and Academic Coordinator at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals Delhi. He is a leading robotic bariatric surgeon in addition to his proctoring and academic duties. Here, he shares some of his tips and tricks for the...
The KS robotic surgery video awards second place winner: "Beyond traditional frontiers: Therapeutic Supine Robotic RPLND for post chemotherapy residual retroperitoneal masses in testicular cancer "(full title). Authors:Ashwin Tamhankar, Puneet Ahluwalia, Gagan Gautam Presenting author: Ashwin Tamhankar Institution: Max Institute of Cancer Care, Saket, New Delhi ...
Dr. Ananthakrishnan Sivaraman is a Consultant Urologist and Director of Robotics for Apollo Hospitals Chennai. He was instrumental in founding the Indian Prostate Cancer Foundation. He also is Program Director for the Apollo Vattikuti Robotic Urology Fellowship, mentoring K. R. Seetharam Bhat, current...
Vattikuti Foundation Partner Surgeon and the Chairman, Urology and Renal Transplantation, Fortis Escorts Kidney & Urology Institute, Dr. Rajesh Ahlawat is a leader in robotic kidney transplantation. He also is an accomplished urologic surgeon. He talks about what is "special" in retzius...
Dr. Basant Mahadevappa is the Senior Consultant and Head of Department of HPB/Liver Transplantation of HCG Hospitals, Bangalore, India. His patient was a 57- year old male with rectosigmoid growth with liver metatstases. Dr....
Complete title: Pediculated Gerona based bolster for Partial nephrectomy: Dedscription of technique and outcomes. Dr. Sanjai Addla, Consultant Uro-Oncologist, Apollo Cancer Institutes, Hyderabad says, "The key is to do the partial nephrectomy," regardless of the technique used. ...
Dr. Rama Joshi is the Director of Gynae Oncology at the Fortis Memorial Research Institute. She shares her personal experience in robotic surgery for endometrial cancer compared with her open surgical procedures. She tells the Robotic Surgeons Council of India that this...
Full title: Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopic Hysterectomy and Para-aortic Lymph Node Dissection Following Chemo-radiation for Stage 1B-2 Cervical Cancer. Dr. Sarika Gupta ia a Consultant, Robotic Gynecology & Obstetrics at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi. Formerly at Florida Hospital- Florida Cancer Institute, Orlando, her...
Dr. Anupama Rajanbabu is Professor of Gynecologic Oncology at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, India. She shares her ideas about how to optimize the da Vinci Xi Surgical System robot for multiquadreant ovarian cancer surgery. Originally titled "Robotic Staging Surgery for...
Dr. Rajesh Ahlawat is the Chairman, Urology and Renal Transplantation, Fortis Escorts Kidney & Urology Institute, and is one of the leading robotic renal transplant experts in the world. He enthusiastically tells the Robotic Surgeons Council of India that for robotic surgery, "You...
Alessandro Volpe, M.D. was the invited International Faculty for the April, 2017 Robotic Surgeons Council of India (RSC) meetings. He is an Associate Professor of Urology at the University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy and OLV Robotic Surgery Institute, Aalst, Belgium. He is...
Dr. D.V.S.L.N Sharma, Consultant Urologist and Uro - Oncologist at Apollo Health City, Hyderabad presents the case of a 59-year old male,with a large right renal mass with a thrombus extending into the right vena cava about 1.5 to 2 cm in. "It was...
Dr. Hamang Bakshi is a Consultant Urooncologist at the HCG Cancer Centre in Ahmedabad, India. He has a difficult case of a 3cm mass in the kidney of a female patient. He describes her conditions as he shows the robotic surgery camera...
Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute & Research Centre Consultant Robotic Surgeon in the Head and Neck Surgical Oncology Unit- Dr. Surender Dabas acknoledges that Head & Neck surgery is "the last" of the surgical specialties in the list of those utilyzing robots. ...
Alessandro Volpe, M.D. was the invited International Faculty for the April, 2017 Robotic Surgeons Couincil of India (RSC) meetings. He is an Associate Professor of Urology at the University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy and OLV Robotic Surgery Institute, Aalst, Belgium. He is a...
Dr. Jagdeesh N. Kulkarni is the Director, Minimal Invasive and Robotic surgery at Asian Institute of Oncology at Somaiya Ayurvihar : Cancer Care, Parel, Mumbai. His presentation to the Robotic Surgeons Council of India is a personal look at his transition from performing open...
"When I was in the U. S. in a very high-volume robotic center, my goal was to replicate it here," says Apollo Hospitals Chennai Consultant Urologist and robotic surgeon Dr. Ananthakrishnan Sivaraman. He talks about how he tailored the Apollo Chennai robotic surgery program...
Prof. Dr. S. P. Somashekhar, Manipal Health Enterprise Chairman, Oncology and Head of Department Surgical & Gynec Oncology shares ideas that he and his surgical team have devised for the Robotic assisted Type-1 extrafascial Pan hysterectomy with pelvic and high paraaortic lymphadenectomy for endometrial...
"We always use this term very often, whenever we talk about robotic surgery," says Dr. Gagan Gautam, Head of Uro- Oncology & Robotic Surgery at the Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, New Delhi, India. He talks about the implications of the learning curve...
Complex hysterectomy made easy using da Vinci Robot assisted surgery, from Dr. Rama Joshi, Gynae Onco Surgeon, Robotic Surgon, Director, Dept. Of Gynae Oncology, Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon, India: Surgery done in 49 years old patient...
Prof. Dr. S. P. Somashekhar, Manipal Health Enterprise Chairman, Oncology and Head of Department Surgical & Gynec Oncology is credited with performing the first robotic Thyroidectomy in India. He discusses his technique (including learning from early mistakes) and the robotic tools he prefers to use...
After an introduction from Vattikuti Foundation C. E. O. Dr. Mahendra Bhandari, Apollo Hospitals Founder and Chairman, Dr. Prathap C. Reddy addressed the Robotic Surgeons Council of India. He talks about the beginnings , present and future of robotic surgery in India and of...
Renal Salvage Against All Odds: Robotic Excision of a Left Sided Hilar Paraganglioma Adherent to Renal Vessels. This video earned First Place in the KS Robotic Surgery Awards at the Robotic Surgeons Council of India meetings April 8 & 9, 2017. It was...
Dr. Sujit Chowdhary, Senior Consultant in Pediatric Urology & Surgery at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi demonstrates his passion for using robotics in Pediatric Urology. While a small segment, the importance to the pediatric patient can be proven. "It does really matter," says...
Dr. Anupama Rajanbabu, Professor of Gynaecologic Oncology; Director, Robotic Surgery Fellowship Program at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, Kerala India has shared the YouTube video of her Robotic Modified Radical Hysterectomy. It has surgical video highlights from the da Vinci internal...
Full Title: Robotic excision of a functioning hilar paraganglioma with reconstruction of renal vessels Sohrab Arora*, Ashwin Mallya, Indraneel Banerjee, Rajesh Ahlawat ...
A major secondary goal of robotic radical prostatectomy (RARP) especially in Indian social context is continence. We report a new technique of RARP with a combined anterior-posterior approach involving anatomic preservation of continence mechanism. Thirteen...
This is the ninth time that Dr. Mahendra Bhandari has convened the Robotic Surgeons Council of India (RSC). Bhandari, CEO of the Vattikuti Foundation, sponsor of the RSC, has an interesting story and thoughts to share with the audience in Goa, November, 2017. Lecture, 05:11...
Senior Consultant in Urology at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, Dr. Rajesh Taneja presents a unique case to the Robotic Surgeons Council of India. A 14-year old girl with flank pain is diagnosed with a 14cm lesion, which other surgeons insisted should be removed...
Professor & Consultant Urologist at Tata Memorial Hospital, Dr. Ganesh Bakshi uses robotic surgery video to show his steps for removing a renal tumor using the Xi da Vinci robot. He talks about locating the best plane possible for removing the tumor and...
VP, Strategy for Intuitive Surgical, Catherine Mohr, MD, MSME, tells the Robotic Surgeons Council of India (RSC) about some the new items on the horizon for the robotic surgeon. She also talks about the worldwide growth or robotic surgery (and...
Surender Dabas, MS (Gen. Surg.) DNB (Surgical Oncology) is a Consultant, Head & Neck Oncology Unit of the Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute & Research Centre. His statistics state that 30-40% of all cancers in India involve the head and neck. He shares...
Dr. Koon Ho Rha is Professor of Urology and Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery Center for Yonsei University, Severance Hospital, Seoul, South Korea. This is the third in a step-by-step series of ten short unnarrated robotic prostatectomy videos. In this video, we see...
Dr. Koon Ho Rha is Professor of Urology and Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery Center for Yonsei University, Severance Hospital, Seoul, South Korea. This is the sixth in a step-by-step series of ten short unnarrated robotic prostatectomy videos. In this video, we see...
Dr. Koon Ho Rha is Professor of Urology and Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery Center for Yonsei University, Severance Hospital, Seoul, South Korea. This is the ninth in a step-by-step series of ten short unnarrated robotic prostatectomy videos. In this video, we see...
Dr. Koon Ho Rha is Professor of Urology and Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery Center for Yonsei University, Severance Hospital, Seoul, South Korea. This is the tenth in a step-by-step series of ten short unnarrated robotic prostatectomy videos. In this video, we...
Dr. Koon Ho Rha is Professor of Urology and Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery Center for Yonsei University, Severance Hospital, Seoul, South Korea. This is the second in a step-by-step series of ten short unnarrated robotic prostatectomy videos. In this video, we...
Dr. Koon Ho Rha is Professor of Urology and Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery Center for Yonsei University, Severance Hospital, Seoul, South Korea. This is the fourth in a step-by-step series of ten short unnarrated robotic prostatectomy videos. In this video,...
Dr. Koon Ho Rha is Professor of Urology and Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery Center for Yonsei University, Severance Hospital, Seoul, South Korea. This is the fifth in a step-by-step series of ten short unnarrated robotic prostatectomy videos. In this video, we...
Dr. Koon Ho Rha is Professor of Urology and Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery Center for Yonsei University, Severance Hospital, Seoul, South Korea. This is the seventh in a step-by-step series of ten short unnarrated robotic prostatectomy videos. In this video, we see...
Dr. Koon Ho Rha is Professor of Urology and Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery Center for Yonsei University, Severance Hospital, Seoul, South Korea. This is the eighth in a step-by-step series of ten short unnarrated robotic prostatectomy videos. In this video,...
Dr. Koon Ho Rha is Professor of Urology and Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery Center for Yonsei University, Severance Hospital, Seoul, South Korea. This is the first in a step-by-step series of ten short unnarrated robotic prostatectomy videos. In this video, we see...
Medanta Vattikuti Institute of Robotic Surgery Chairman, Academics and Research Division Urology, Dr. Narmada P. Gupta shared how he uses robotic prostatectomy surgery for patients with previous abdominal surgery concerns. He advises the Robotic Surgeons Council of India of how to address the concerns...
Kokilabeen Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital Head of Robotic Surgery and Consultant Uro-Oncologist Dr. T. B. Yuvaraja shows the Robotic Surgeons Council of India some of his ideas for reducing mortality in elderly Radical Cystectomy patients. By preoperatively identifying factors in these difficult cases, success...
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai Consultant Urologist and Robotic Surgeon Dr. Ananthakrishnan Sivaraman, MS (Gen), DNB (Gen), MRCS (Edin), MCh (Uro), FRCS (Urol) shared his experience of three years and 100 robotic partial nephrectomies with the Robotic Surgeons Council of India. He explains why it...
Dr. Shailesh V. Shrikhande is Professor of Surgery and Head of Gastrointestinal and Hepato Pancreato Biliary Surgical Service and also the Convener of the GI – Disease...
Dr. Rooma Sinha has been one of the pioneer robotic gynecologic surgeons in India. Her complete title for her Robotic Surgeons Council of India presentation is: Surgery for Endometriosis: Robotic Assistance- Is it the Way Forward? The Apollo Health City (Hyderabad) surgeon...
Apollo Hospitals Chennai Consultant Urologist, Uro Oncologist & Robotic Surgeon Dr. Narasimhan Ragavan's complete title for his Robotic Surgeons Council of India lecture is called: Extra-Peritoneal Versus Trans-Peritoneal Robot Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy- Point of Technique and Perioperative Outcomes. He reports on...
Dr. I. Emre Gorgun, FACS, FSCRS, is a colorectal surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. This is his presentation from the November, 2016 meeting of the Robotic Surgeons Council of India, where he was invited International Faculty. He talks about several...
Chairman, Urology & Renal Transplantation, Fortis Escorts Kidney & Urology Institute and Director, VUI International, Dr. Rajesh Ahlawat is on of the most respected urologists in the world. He offers an insightful presentation on Robot Assisted Radical Prostatectomy (RARP) to the Robotic Surgeons...
Mr. Michael Hall is Intuitive Surgical's Director, Sales & Customer Training. This is his November, 2016 presentation to the Robotic Surgeons Council of India. He shares information about the new robotic surgery training initiative: Technology Training Pathway. It is designed to be a...
Dr. Gajagowni is Head of Dept. of Surgical Oncology and Clinical Director Institute of Robotic Sciences, Yashoda Cancer Institute,Yashoda Hospitals Secunderabad, India. From his Robotic Surgeons Council of India KS Awards video presentation: Cancer of esophagus is one of deadliest cancers with a dismal...
In this video produced for Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, the Director of the Institute for Robotic Surgery, Dr. Arvind Kumar describes many the differences for both the surgeon and patient from Laparoscopic, Open and Robotic Thoracic procedures. His message has footage of the da...
In this video produced for Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, robotic surgeons Parveen Bhatia and Vivek Bindal talk about the many advantages they feel robotic bariatric surgery provides both patients and surgeons. It begins with Intuitive Surgical promotional footage of their da Vinci...
In this Sir Ganga Ram Hospital video for patients, the Director of the Institute of Robotic Surgery, Dr. Arvind Kumar (in Hindi) provides prospective patients information about the benefits of robotic thoracic surgery. Included is footage of the da Vinci Surgical System Xi robot....
In this Sir Ganga Ram Hospital video for patients, Robotic Surgeons Dr. Parveen Bhatia and Dr. Vivek Bindal talk (in Hindi) about the benefits robotic surgery brings to their patients. Discussion, with da Vinci Surgical System promotional footage. 25:41 ...
In this video produced for Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Senior Consultant and Robotic Surgeon in Ob. & Gyn. Dr. Mala Srivastava shares her experience about the advantages of robotic surgery for gynecologic surgery. Since this is predominantly for women in India, she talks in...
In his dual roles as Director of Robotic Surgery Education & Research at the Vattikuti Urology Institute and CEO of the Vattikuti Foundation, Dr. Mahendra Bhandari keeps abreast of the latest technology in minimally invasive surgery. In this video, excerpted from his 2016...
We hear from Senior Staff Surgeon Dr. Craig Rogers, Director of Robotic Kidney Surgery at the Vattikuti Urology Institute at Henry Ford Hospital. He shares his journey on how he became a member of the VUI "Family." He also reflects on...
As part of the Centennial Celebration for the Henry Ford Health System, The Vattikuti Urology Institute (VUI) held a day-long medical lecture series. Dr. Marc Melser, VUI former Resident and Fellow now in practice in Punta Gorda, Florida talked about reasons for a...
International Faculty for the Robotic Surgeons Council of India, Mr. Nikhil Vasdev, MBBS, MCh (Urol, FRCS (Urol), Consultant Urological and Robotic Surgeon Hertfordshire& South Bedfordshire Urological Cancer Centre, Department of Urology, Lister Hospital, UK; Assoc. Lecturer in Urology- University of Cambridge; Senior Clinical Lecturer...
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital robotic surgeons Drs. B.B.Agarwal & Neeraj Dhamija interview their patient in a follow-up visit about the Robotic Whipples procedure. In Hindi, the patient explains how there was less pain than expected and they returned to work faster as well. ...
Live robotic radical prostatectomy performed From the Peter Macallum Cancer Centre, Victoria, Australia by Associate Professor Declan Murphy as part of the 3rd World Robotic Surgery 24 hour Event (#WRSE24). This unique event involves surgeons from the world's leading cancer centres streaming live robotic...
Dr. Rooma Sinha, Associate Professor, Minimal Access & Robotic Surgeon at Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad, studied a cohort of Myomectomy patients between January, 2012 and June, 2015. She compares outcomes from patients who chose which procedure to have (Laparoscopic or Robotic). She describes the...
In his second presentation before the April, 2016 meeting of the Robotic Surgeons Council of India, Karolinska Institutet Professor and Senior Physician Dr. N. Peter Wiklund talks about the major cancer killer among men in Northern Europe- and what it means to Indian surgeons. ...
Dr. Mala Srivastava is a Senior Consultant at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. When talking about benign gynecologic robotic surgery, Dr. Srivastava says the indications "Are almost the same as all laparoscopic surgeries." She takes us through several robotic surgery highlights of various...
Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital Consultant - Gynaecology, Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgeon Dr. Anshumala Shukla-Kulkarni presents several of her ideas about why robotic works "very well" for gynecologic procedures. Still mostly a laparoscopic surgeon, she feels that robotic surgery can still play a...
Dr. Belal Bin Asaf, Thoracic Surgeon associated with the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi, dedicated his Robotic Surgeons Council of India video lecture presentation to the late Krishnaswamy Subrahmaniam, former head of Vattikuti Technologies. His procedure was for a man in his...
In this excellent presentation, Consultant Urologist and Transplant Surgeon, Aster Medcity, Dr. T. A. Kishore has a 53-year-old man with hematuria. "This case showcases the expanding horizons of the robotic instruments in the surgical armamentarium of urologists," says Dr. Kishore. He uses...
Winner of the KS Award for best video presentation at the Robotic Surgeons Council of India (RSC) meetings April 2016, Dr. S. P. Somashekhar, Chairman of Surgical Oncology, Consultant Surgical, Gynec.Onco & Robotic Surgeon, Manipal Comprehensive Cancer Center uses several photos and robotic surgery clips...
Consultant, Surgical Oncology (Uro Oncology) at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital & Research Institute, Dr. T. B. Yuvaraja takes us through his nerve sparing procedure for a 34 year old with enhancing soft tissue mass lesion on the bladder and muscle invasive TCC (MIBC). ...
Dr. Pranjal Modi, Professor & Head of the Department of Urology & Transplantation Surgery for the Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre in Ahmedebad, India. He is one of the first surgeons to implement the Robotic Kidney Transplantation With Regional Hypothermia...
Senior Consultant Gynecologist, Laparoscopic & Robotic Surgeon at Apollo Health City in Hyderabad, Dr. Rooma Sinha looks at how robotic surgery can assist the robotic surgeon in aiding patient fertility issues. She looks at the history of surgery, but them focuses on robotic...
The Senior Consultant, Urology and Robotic Surgery for Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi, Dr. Rajesh Taneja describes how to robotically repair injuries to the urinary tract, whether from surgical accidents or other causes. While injuries occur in less than one case per thousand,...
Veteran Robotic Surgeon and one of the pioneers of the Robotic Kidney Transplant With Regional Hypothermia, Dr. Rajesh Ahlawat describe the progress made since the first transplants done at Medanta in collaboration with the Vattikuti Urology Institute and Dr. Mani Menon. With over...
U. K. Consultant Urological & Robotic Surgeon Mr. Nikhil Vasdev, Lister Hospital, Associate Lecturer in Urology at the University of Cambridge and Senior Clinical Lecturer in Urology at the University of Hertfordshire, was invited international faculty for the Robotic Surgeons Council of India, April 2016....
Dr. Narmada P. Gupta, Chairman, Academics and Research Division Urology, Medanta Institute of Kidney and Urology for Medanta – The Medicity brings a wealth of experience in urologic robotic surgery. For Indian patients, "It is a very delicate balance," when considering outcomes of...
The Director Surgical Oncology & Chief of Uro - Gynae Surgical Oncology at the Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute,Dr. Sudhir K. Rawal recounts his experience from nearly 400 robotic cystectomy procedures in male and female patients. "I think the key is reaching through the...
Here is a short patient testimonial sent by Dr. Sanjiv Badhwar, ENT Surgeon from KDAH. His patient, Mr. Deepak Kumar describes the difficulties he endured with sleep apnea before having Transoral Robotic Surgery (TORS) to alleviate his condition. He emotionally recounts how...
Karolinska Institutet Professor and Senior Physician Dr. N. Peter Wiklund was a guest faculty member at the April 2016 Robotic Surgeons Council of India. Here is his presentation Surgical Technique in Robot-Assisted Cystectomy with Intracorporeal Urinary Diversion. He reviews the technical aspects...
Posted on YouTube from the British Journal of Surgery, we are sharing the link to this this on the VFRSI website because of the quality of the video of the procedure. It is not narrated, but has descriptive slides and edited highlights. ...
We hear about Robotic Bariatric surgery from one of the leaders in the field: Dr. Arun Prasad of Indraprastha Apollo Hospital Delhi. We hear and see examples of some of his more challenging procedures, and why he finds robotic surgery to be the best...
Indraprastha Apollo Hospital Delhi Bariatric Surgeon Dr. Arun Prasad shares why he prefers using robotic surgery over open or laparoscopic procedures. He talks about several different procedures he has performed: Gastric Bypass, Carcinoma of the...
This is a short 1-minute video from surgeon Dr. Arun Prasad intended for patients. He give a quick explanation of what robotic bariatric bypass surgery is- including a look at the robot and actual surgery. It's a good way for someone considering a...
In this short, but visually excellent video from Dr. Anupama Rajanbabu, Clinical Associate Professor of Surgical and Gynaecologic Oncology at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, we see sentinel node mapping in endometrial cancer with ICG dye and Robotic Assisted NIR Imaging. ...
Vattikuti Foundation video editor Anil Kumar shows some of the photographic highlights of past Robotic Surgeons Council of India meetings. Photos, edited, 03:30. ...
Radiotherapy and Brachytherapy for postoperative endometrial cancer in the early stage is thoroughly discussed by Manipal Hospital Radiation Oncologist Dr. Vadhiraja B. M.. He talks about risk groups and treatment types depending on the stage and grade of the cancer. When patients...
This video from Consultant and Head of Thoracic Surgical Oncology at Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, Dr. L. M. Darlong, shows robotic mobilization of the esophagus for squamous cell carcinoma following preoperative chemo-radiation. (Mckewan Esophagectomy) The procedure is done in the left...
Vattikuti Foundation C. E. O. Dr. Mahendra Bhandari recently addressed the International Live Operative Workshop on Advanced Robotic and Reconstructive Surgery. The meeting was held at PGIMER, Chandigarh, February 19-21, 2016. He spoke to the group from Miami via GoToWebinar. He shared his insight into...
Manipal Vattikuti Robotic Surgery Institute Chairman & HOD Surgical Oncology, Prof. Dr. S. P. Somashekhar performs a Robotic VATS Radical Left Lung Lower Lobectomy with Systematic Mediastinal Lymphadenectomy for Adenocarcinoma Lung cT1N0M0. His patient is a 45-yr. old female with asymptomatic coin of 2.5 x...
Manipal Vattikuti Robotic Surgery Institute Chairman & HOD Surgical Oncology, Prof. Dr. S. P. Somashekhar performs a Robotic VATS Radical Left Lung Lower Lobectomy with Systematic Mediastinal Lymphadenectomy for Adenocarcinoma Lung cT1N0M0. His patient is a 45-yr. old female with asymptomatic coin of 2.5 x...
Manipal Professor Dr. S. P. Somashekhar provides this narrated video of the robotic procedure for Type 1 Extrafacial Panhystrectomy with Bilateral Systematic PLND. The patient is 56, with Post menopausal bleeding and hypertensive and DM. USG and TVS showed 3 cms polyploidy...
The September, 2015 meeting of the Robotic Surgeons Council of India has a special video contest resulting in the awarding of the first KS Awards honoring the late Vattikuti Technologies C. E. O., Krishnaswamy Subrahmaniam. ...
Urology & Andrology Consultant at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi, Dr. Rajesh Taneja was faced with a 47-year-old female, post open hysterectomy, loss of lower ureter, with pain, fever and leucocytosis. Her Nephrostogram showed the sudden cutoff of ureter below the iliac crossing....
Professor & Chief, GI and HPB Service for the Department of Surgical Oncology at Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India, Dr. Shailesh V. Shrikhande claims "the Whipple is perhaps the most demanding of all surgeries." He talks about published study results, then begins with a...
"Everybody is extremely important in the whole team," says Medanta robotic surgeon Dr. Ali Zamir Khan. Khan, the Head of Department: Minimally Invasive VATS and Robotic Thoracic Surgery tells the RSC audience that "Thoracic anesthesia is a challenge by itself," in part due...
"There's not much published," about this pediatric procedure, says Dr. Sujit Chowdhary, Senior Consultant in Pediatric Urology & Surgery at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi. He talks about the limitations he faces because of limited resources for doing the procedure on a 15-year-old...
Dr. Arun Prasad, Senior Consultant Surgeon & Academic Co-ordinator General & Minimal Access Surgery for Indraprastha Apollo Delhi Hospital narrates excellent OT/OR video of robot docking, port placement, and the "robo-lift" of obese patients. Prasad then takes us inside his patient, showing the use...
Dr. Narmada.P. Gupta is Chairman, Academics and Research Division Urology at Medanta, the Medicity. He presents a case of a prostate cancer patient with isolated lymph node relapse following a radical prostatectomy. Very clear da Vinci robotic camera footage of his procedure, well...
Vattikuti Foundation friend and VUI alumnus Prof. Dr. Ashutosh Tewari, Chairman of the Milton and Carroll Petrie Department of Urology at the Icahn School of Medicine at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, takes a close look at the workings of prostate...
Apollo Chennai Children's Hospital Surgeon Dr. Venkat Sripathy takes two cases of congenital defect repairs: an obstructed megaureter and an obstructive refluxing megaureter, and displays his robotic solutions. There is also a discussion about ureteral tapering done robotically for 'very big' ureters. ...
Dr. N. Ragavan is a consultant urologist, uro-Oncologist and Robotic Surgeon at Apollo Hospitals Chennai presents the case of a 23-year-old patient with an incidental intra-renal mass who wanted his kidney salvaged, despite the degree of difficulty the (endophytic) tumor presented. Good descriptions, robotic...
Consultant Obstetrician and UroGynaecologist- Apollo Hospitals, Chennai , India, Dr. Meera V. Ragavan talks about the many accepted uses for robotic procedures in Gynecologic procedures. She explains how to safely overcome (US)FDA concerns about Morcellation and also the advantages surgeons have when using...
Dr. Anupama Rajanbabu, Associate Professor at the Department of Surgical and Gynaecologic Oncology at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi uses Indocyanine Green dye with the Firefly system on the da Vinci robot to help locate Sentinel Nodes to "avoid the morbidity of lymphadenectomy." ...
Dr. Gagan Gautam is the Head of Urologic Cancer Surgery (Urologic Oncology) and Robotic Surgery at Medanta, the Medicity, New Delhi. (Medanta Vattikuti Institute of Robotic Surgery) His "rather unconventional topic," was chosen by the presenter, who suggests that social media is...
"This is a video titled How to Make An Easy Case Difficult," says Medanta Consultant Thoracic Surgeon Dr. Ali Zamir Khan, Head of Department: Minimally Invasive VATS and Robotic Thoracic Surgery. He was training a junior surgeon through a Mediastinal Parathyriod Ectopic Adenoma....
Dr. Arun Prasad, MS, FRCS, from Indraprathsa Apollo Hospital Delhi, uses an example of a difficult sleeve gastrectomy case to show how surgeons need to listen to their team in the OT/OR when potential problems arise. "When we are doing surgery," he says,...
Dr. Rajeev Kumar, MCh, was the first surgeon to be at the patient side position for robotic surgery in India, so he knows "both sides of the table." He is a Professor of Urology at the All India Institute of Medica Sciences in New...
Dr. S. P. Somashekhar, Manipal Hospital Head & Consultant- Department of Surgical & Gynaec Oncology & Robotic Surgeon Adjunct Professor in Surgical Oncology (KMC) addresses the Robotic Surgeons Council of India September 2015 Meetings. For this presentation, he shares his innovations and observations on...
Dr. S. P. Somashekhar, Manipal Hospital Head & Consultant- Department of Surgical & Gynaec Oncology & Robotic Surgeon Adjunct Professor in Surgical Oncology (KMC) is a mentor for both the new da Vinci Xi and the Si surgical robots. He addresses the Robotic...
Dr. Mario M. Leitao is the Fellowship Director, Gynecology Services and the Director of the Minimal Access and Robotic Surgery program for the Department of Surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. This presentation, from the September 2015 meeting of...
Dr. Mario M. Leitao is the Fellowship Director, Gynecology Services and the Director of the Minimal Access and Robotic Surgery program for the Department of Surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. This presentation, from the September 2015 meeting...
From the Gynecologic Oncology Master Class hosted by Manipal Hospital , September, 2014, we have a panel discussion with the goal of sharing creative guidelines for difficult cases in gynecologic oncology. Several different examples were brought before the expert panel. Discussion, with...
The Bocciardi approach for Robot Assisted Radical Prostatectomy passes through the Douglas space, following a completely intrafascial plane without any dissection of the anterior compartment, which contains neurovascular bundles, Aphrodite's veil, endopelvic fascia, the Santorini plexus, pubourethral ligaments, and all of the structures thought...
As part of his ongoing Interview series, Vattikuti Foundation C. E. O. Dr. Mahendra Bhandari has a conversation with Italian Urologist Dr. Aldo Massimo Bocciardi. Bocciardi has developed a new method of robotic prostatectomy surgery that improves continence called the Bocciardi Approach. ...
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Vattikuti Foundation C. E. O. Dr. Mahendra Bhandari continues his series of interviews with a conversation with Urologist Nikhil Vasdev, Consultant Urological and Robotic Surgeon at Lister Hospital, Stevenage, U. K. They discuss cutting-edge robotic surgery for Urology, the recent new developments...
This documentary takes a look at the history behind the Vattikuti Urology Institute and Medanta Vattikuti Robotic Surgery Institute collaborating to develop a new means of kidney transplantation. The method, devised by VUI Chair Dr. Mani Menon, uses ice slush to keep the kidney cold...
For the August 8, 2015 Vattikuti Scholar Webinar, Dr. Mario M. Leitao was the guest lecturer. He practices in New York, NY at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: Associate Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College; Associate Member, Gynecology Service; Director, Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program;...
Professor & Director of Research for the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of California, Irvine, Dr. Krishnansu Tewari takes an in-depth look at the "Theraputic Landscape in Ovarian Cancer." He discusses different histological categories of cancer and the many therapies and treatments...
Dr. Walter H. Gotlieb, Professor of Ob-Gyn and of Oncology at McGill University, Montreal, Canada presented a live Vattikuti Scholar webinar August 29th, 2015. He shared his insight into the many factors of endometrial cancer and treatment possibilities. Pain management, BMI-challenged patients, aging...
Pelvic Organ Prolapse can affect up to 30% of women aged 50 and over. Using PowerPoints, MRI imaging and the da Vinci robotic camera, we see the robotic procedure where surgical mesh is implanted to repair the condition. Robot and port placement photos, additional...
In this video, we see the work of Vattikuti Urology Institute Director Dr. Mani Menon as he performs his trademark radical prostatectomy surgery using the da Vinci surgical robot in India at Manipal Hospital. Robotic camera video of surgery, not narrated. 30:00 ...
In 2011, the Vattikuti Foundation Road Show introduced robotic surgery to a large number of hospitals and surgeons in India. Dr. Prathap C. Reddy, Chairman of Apollo Hospitals group, talked to the audience gathered at Apollo Hospital in Chennai to hear the Foundation presentation....
An important part of the Vattikuti Foundation's introduction of robotic surgery to the surgeons of India was the 2011 VF Road Show. Here, we see VUI Director Dr. Mani Menon and Foundation C. E. O. Dr. Mahendra Bhandari field questions from surgeons in...
An important part of the Vattikuti Foundation's introduction of robotic surgery to the surgeons of India was the 2011 VF Road Show. Here, we see VUI Director Dr. Mani Menon and Foundation C. E. O. Dr. Mahendra Bhandari field questions from surgeons in...
Robotic Total Abdominal Hysterectomy Bilateral Saphingo-Oophorectomy performed by Dr. Sudhir K. Rawal, Dir. Surgical Oncology & Chief of GU Surgica Oncology at the Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute & Research Centre. Edited, not narrated with informations PPT's preceeding the video clips from the da...
In this video from the 2011 Vattikuti Foundation Road Show, we see Operating Room training of prospective robotic surgeons with members of the Vattikuti Urology Institute staff and Dr. Mani Menon, who provides glimpses of the daVinci surgical robot during live surgery at the...
In this historic video footage from the 2011 Vattikuti Foundation Road Show in Kolkata, we see and hear Dr. Ketan Badani and a VUI Surgical nurse demonstrate the daVinci surgical robot live at the Apollo Gleneagles Hospital to interested surgeons- some seeing a surgical robot...
Dr. Mani Menon, robotic surgery pioneer, answers questions and takes comments at the Apollo Gleneagles Hospital, Kolkata, for the Vattikuti Foundation Road Show, a Vattikuti Foundation sponsored series of events to teach the public and surgeons of India about Robotic Surgery. 04:38 ...