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FOR TRAINING IN ROBOTICS.
Krish Sairam (Senior Registrar), Declan Cahill (Consultant Urologist) Guy's Hospital, Department of Urology, London |
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A team from Guy’s Hospital, London went to the prestigious IRCAD / EITS Centre in Strasbourg, France (www.ircad.fr) on the 14th July and spent two days training with the Da Vinci robotic system (Intuitive Surgical). The team consisting of two surgeons – Krish Sairam, Senior Registrar and Declan Cahill, Consultant Urologist – and two senior scrub nurses – Pauline Atkinson and Erwin Alamariz learnt the steps of setting up the system, the techniques used for docking the robot to the patient and nuances of using the robotic arms and the console, maximising the potential of the system. After returning from the course, which was supported entirely by a grant from Prostate UK, Erwin Alamariz says, “ I really feel confident now scrubbing up to assist for a robotic prostatectomy. This training course has provided me the knowledge and skills to perform my job well, with protecting the health and maintaining safety of the patient, an important goal during the operation.” Declan Cahill performed a robotic prostatectomy the day after returning from the course. Krish Sairam, who has a special interest in robotic surgery, feels that this training course has empowered him to perform steps of robotic prostatectomy with confidence. The entire team feel that this training course, in turn, will benefit the patient with prostate cancer. In the modern NHS, where care is patient centred and offers choice, surgeons trained in robot assisted prostatectomy will be able to offer it as one of the radical treatment options for prostate cancer. Support for such training, provided by organisations like Prostate UK enable surgical teams to compete with the best in the world.
The full report of this training (.pdf file) is available here.
Training report, 17 August 2008.
Project 2007/51