Key areas in the learning curve for robotic urological surgery: a Spanish multicentre survey.

Background: The number of robotic-assisted procedures offered in Spain is rapidly increasing despite a lack of consensus criteria for training and credentialling.

Objective: This national multicentre study was designed to analyze the different areas of the robotic urological surgery learning curve.

Material And Methods: A questionnaire was sent to all 13 urology units in Spain with an active robotics programme requesting information on training and problems encountered.

[Robotic radical prostatectomy: first 100 patients in Fundació Puigvert].

Objective: We present the 100 first robotic radical prostatectomy with Da Vinci (RRPdaV), corresponding to the first experience in Spain.

Methods: We reviewed the first 100 patients that underwent transperitoneal RRPda performed in Fundació Puigvert between July 2005 and January 2007. All cases were performed by 5 surgeons, being the learning curve for all of them.