Optimizing the robotic surgery team: an operations management perspective.

Introduction And Hypothesis: To assess the critical threshold to optimize operating room (OR) time for each surgical team member in robotically assisted sacrocolpopexy (RASCP) and to evaluate the most efficient team compositions.

Methods: All women who underwent RASCP for pelvic organ prolapse (POP) were prospectively entered in a database. Patients having unrelated concomitant surgery were excluded.

Hysterectomy at the time of colpocleisis: a decision analysis.

Introduction And Hypothesis: Colpocleisis is an obliterative procedure for the treatment of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) with success rates nearing 100 %. Concomitant hysterectomy is commonly performed to avoid potential difficulty or delay in diagnosis and management of endometrial cancer (EMC). The objective was to assess the utility of vaginal hysterectomy at the time of a colpocleisis using decision analysis.