All minimally invasive surgeries cause less suffering and harassment to patients leading to minimum after-effects and speedy recovery. In case of minimally invasive surgeries like the robotic prostatectomy surgical procedure, the instruments utilized are inserted through tiny openings and requirement of transfusions is extremely rare. Pain-relieving medication is only seldom needed and the hospital stay required is generally just of twenty-four hours.
In case of a minimally invasive surgery, the patient can have his catheter removed after only seven days of his discharge from the hospital. This removal of the urinary catheter is a simple outpatient procedure that needs merely five minutes. It is also not necessary for the patient to return to the hospital where the surgery took place as the catheter removal can be done by his regular urologist at any clinic.
Minimally invasive surgeries are remarkable for their success in diminishing the disturbing effects a surgery might have on urinary, bowel and sexual functioning. Regaining of urinary continence is largely improved after a minimally invasive surgery, which is not the case in other kinds of prostatectomy. Bowel movement symptoms, which can be painful side-effects of other kind of surgeries, are experienced by less than 2% of the patients who undergo minimally invasive surgeries.
Ash Tewari, MD 