Benefits:

Results

Patients who undergo the da Vinci robotic prostatectomy experience less pronounced side effects than patients who undergo the traditional procedure. The chart below shows the benefits in two key areas: blood loss and length of hospital stay.

Blood Loss:

da Vinci: Average patient lost 200 cc's of blood.
Traditional: Open surgery patients lost 1,480 cc's of blood.

Length of Stay:

da Vinci: Average patient stays 2.5 days. 82% of patients leave within 2 days.
Traditional: Average stay for open surgery patients was 3.9 days.

Data compares patients who received robotic prostatectomies versus patients who received traditional, open prostatectomies at UVa since January 1, 2004