All patients are followed up every 3 months in the outpatient cli

All patients are followed up every 3 months in the outpatient clinic until the end of the second postoperative year and then are seen annually. 2.4. Learning Curve and Data Management A retrospective review of our prospective obesity surgery database was conducted. Variables examined necessary included overall operative time, docking time, length of hospital stay, and complications. Continuous curves were plotted for each variable to identify any plateau effect. The patient number at which a <5% change occurred within a variable gave the minimum number of cases needed to reach the learning curve for that variable. In order to examine the learning curve associated with selected continuous endpoints as the number of operative cases increased, a negative exponential model was fitted via least squares estimation.

This model represents the estimated plateau. 3. Results Robot-assisted sleeve gastrectomy was performed in 32 patients, of whom 12 were males and 20 females. Their mean age was 44 years, and the mean BMI was 48.3kg/m2. 8 patients had diabetes, 13 had hypertension, 9 patients had dyslipidemia, and 16 were using a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device at home at the time of operation. There were no differences between the two cohorts in terms of BMI (Table 1). Table 1 Demographic data. All patients were included consecutively according to the waiting list order and the eligibility for sleeve gastrectomy. From the first 12 cases that configured cohort 1, there were 3 males and 9 females. Of all 32 patients, none required laparoscopic or open conversion.

The set-up time gradually decreased to 34.9 minutes as the nurses became more experienced. Two laparoscopic and robotic operating tables were always prepared and preparation of the robot was included in this set-up time. The overall operating time (OT) decreased from 89.8 minutes in cohort 1 to 70.1 minutes in cohort 2; there was less than 5% change in OT after case 19 up to case 32 (Figure 2). This decrease in OT was attributed to better understanding of the technique and the development of a coordinated procedure. The average time from incision to docking the robot was 8.8 minutes. However, time from incision to docking decreased from 9.5 minutes in cohort 1 to 7.6 minutes in cohort 2. The time taken to dock the robotic system also decreased from 9.1 minutes in cohort 1 to 6.6 minutes in cohort 2.

The complication rate was comparable between the two cohorts (Table 2). The plateau on the Batimastat curve for time from incision to docking, docking, and total operative time occurred at the 19th�C22nd patient with <5% change from this point (Figure 3). The followup was uneventful for all patients in terms of nausea, vomiting, or stenosis, with a mean followup of 10 months. Figure 2 Figure 3 Table 2 Operating times and postoperative data. 4.

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