Live Surgery Webcasts
Real-time live surgery webcasts are available on an ongoing basis on the Internet. They can be viewed live and frequently allow you the opportunity to ask questions of the surgeons performing the procedures during the case. The surgeries are also available for viewing after the case as a recorded archive. Follow the links below for a listing of upcoming and archived cases from centers across the United States.
Upcoming Webcast - da Vinci® Partial Nephrectomy
da Vinci Partial Nephrectomy, to be performed by Craig Rogers, M.D., Director of Robotic Renal Surgery at Henry Ford Hospital and Director of Urologic Oncology at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital, at 5:00PM est, December 6, 2007. James Peabody, M.D., Senior Staff Surgeon of the Vattikuti Urology Institute, will moderate and take questions from viewers.
Webcast Archive - da Vinci Sacrocolpopexy
da Vinci Sacrocolpopexy Surgery - Replay of Webcast
On Monday, September 17th, 2007, a da Vinci Sacrocolpopexy was performed by Dr. Anthony Visco, Associate Professor, Director of the Division of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery, Director of Gynecologic Robotic Surgery, and Vice-Chair of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Duke University Medical Center.
da Vinci® Sacrocolpopexy represents a state-of-the-art minimally invasive approach to surgically correct vaginal vault prolapse by resupporting the vagina to the sacrum using a polypropylene mesh.
The superior high-resolution 3D vision, fully wristed instrumentation and Intuitive® motion of the da Vinci Surgical System allows surgeons to perform a reproducible sacrocolpopexy with far greater surgical precision, ease and efficiency compared to conventional laparoscopy, while applying techniques used in traditional open surgery.
Webcast Archive - da Vinci Prostatectomy
da Vinci Prostatectomy Surgery - Replay of Webcast, performing by Dr. David Emmott, MD on November 2, 2006.
Broadcast from Shawnee Mission Medical Center, Merriam, KS
Shawnee Mission Medical Center hosted its third live surgical Webcast on Thursday, November 2, when urologist David Emmott, MD, performed a robot-assisted radical prostatectomy using the da Vinci® Surgical System.
Shawnee Mission Medical Center was the first hospital the in region to perform radical prostatectomy using the da Vinci® in 2002. Since that time, Emmott and his partner, Scott Montgomery, MD, have performed more than 200 procedures.
da Vinci Prostatectomy Surgery - Replay of Webcast, performed by Dr. Jean Josseph at Strong Hospital in Rochester, New York. The video includes an interview with the patient before and after his surgery.
da Vinci Prostatectomy - Surgery for Prostate Cancer - Replay of August 10, 2006 Webcast. Performed at Waukesha Memorial Hospital, Waukesha, WI. Brian Butler, MD, ProHealth Care urologist, performed the surgery, and Jon Auger, MD, ProHealth Care urologist, moderated the event. The webcast povides viewers the opportunity to see the robotic surgery as it happened, and to hear questions of the surgeon and moderator during the live event.
da Vinci Prostatectomy - Surgery for Prostate Cancer - Replay of January 19, 2006 Webcast. Performed at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital by Jefferson’s Multidisciplinary Urologic Cancer Team.
Webcast Archive - da Vinci® Hysterectomy for Benign Disease
Originally broadcast live from the University of Michigan Hospital, on September 20, 2006.
Minimally invasive da Vinci hysterectomy performed by Dr. Arnold Advincula, Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Division of OB/GYN at The University of Michigan Health System.
Arleen H. Song, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology moderates the event to explain critical portions of the surgery and answers e-mail questions from viewers during the Webcast.
View the da Vinci® Hysterectomy webcast archive here
da Vinci® Hysterectomy for Cervical Cancer
View a replay of the da Vinci Hysterectomy for Cervical Cancer webcast, originally broadcast live from N.C. Women's Hospital at the University of North Carolina Hospitals, on February 22.
While clinical studies support the effectiveness of the da Vinci® System when used in minimally invasive surgery, individual results may vary. Surgery with the da Vinci Surgical System may not be appropriate for every individual. Always ask your doctor about all treatment options, as well as their risks and benefits.