Robot failure during radical prostatectomies is 'extremely rare'
Failure rates will continue to shrink as technology advances
Publish date: October 15, 2007
Mac Overmyer
Mac Overmyer
Researchers surveyed nine high-volume institutions that use the da Vinci surgical robot (Intuitive Surgical, Sunnyvale, CA) and learned that the failure rate for these devices during prostatectomies was 0.3%.