A prospective study comparing operative time in conventional laparoscopic and robotically assisted Thal semifundoplication in children

Set‐up and docking of the da Vinci® surgical system: prospective analysis of initial experience

“…Among the previously mentioned articles concluding that robotic surgery results in increased overall OR-times, five studies directly incriminate the robotic set-up as a significant source of time loss (7,14,15,17,19). Since our study is the first, to our knowledge, to specifically focus on and statistically analyse all the pre-operative steps of the da Vinci surgical system, and given our number of procedures (n = 96), we do not agree with the authors of those articles.…”

Long‐term results of quality of life after standard laparoscopic vs. robot‐assisted laparoscopic fundoplications for gastro‐oesophageal reflux disease. A comparative clinical trial

“…There are several reports confirming the increasing spread of robotic systems in several surgical aspects, such as antireflux surgery in both adult patients (6) and children (14), colorectal surgery (15), oesophageal surgery (16,17), gastric surgery (18), bariatric surgery (19) and adrenal surgery (20). Meanwhile, application of the DV system has been recently reported in otolaryngology (21,22).…”

Robotic foregut surgery

“…Lehnert and colleagues recently reported their prospective study evaluating operative time in robotically assisted Thal semi-fundoplication compared to the conventional laparoscopic approach in 20 children (12). Total operative time was similar in both groups.…”