Abstract
A robot-assisted urologic procedure requires the patient to be anesthetized and then placed in a specific position that enables the particular operation. After this, an internal working space is created inside the patient by insufflating carbon dioxide. In addition, the patient is physically tethered to the robot via the docking sites and then the actual procedure takes place. This scenario creates expected and occasionally unexpected physiologic challenges that inform the anesthetic approach above and beyond the usual considerations. This chapter tackles the unique intersection of the patient, the anesthetic and robot-assisted urologic procedures.
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Giordano, C., Gravenstein, N., Le, H.T.T. (2017). Anesthetic Considerations with Robotic Surgery. In: Su, LM. (eds) Atlas of Robotic Urologic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45060-5_4
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