Expert gives advice on implementing Aquablation with the HYDROS Robotic System

In this video, Ravi Munver, MD, gives advice for health care professionals incorporating Aquablation with the HYDROS Robotic System for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia into their armamentarium. Munver is the vice chair of the department of urology at Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC), as well as the director of minimally invasive and robotic urologic surgery, the chief of living donor kidney surgery, and the director of the minimally invasive robotic laparoscopic and reconstructive oncology fellowship program at HUMC in New Jersey.

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What advice would you give health care professionals just starting to provide Aquablation treatment to patients?

For urologists that are interested in implementing Aquablation into their armamentarium, I am very envious, because anyone who is going to start doing Aquablation now is going to be using the HYDROS System. And the HYDROS System was built on years of research from the first-generation Aquablation system, and now with the advances of the first-assist artificial intelligence technology, the integration of cystoscopic and ultrasonic images combined with the robotic technique and the treatment planning that's created specifically for each individual patient, it makes adoption of this therapy that much easier. I'm not saying that Aquablation was a difficult procedure to learn in the first place. The learning curve is not very steep. However, there are many components that need to be understood. You need to understand about transrectal ultrasonography. You need to understand about treatment planning and angles. You need to understand about how a prostate anatomy is going to impact how you do the actual procedure. And you need to understand what the power levels of the water jet imply at different parts of the prostate. Once you understand these components, the procedure learning curve is really not that steep, but for anyone who is little weary or anxious about learning a new technology, the HYDROS System makes it that much easier, so the adoption is going to be faster. It's going to cut minutes off the procedure. For those of us who have been doing this for a while, but it'll probably cut 10, maybe even 15, minutes off of a procedure for a nonexperienced or someone early in their learning curve. The procedure, in and of itself, for those who have been doing this for a while, is typically under 1 hour. Well, you're already talking about a short procedure duration. And think about it with the HYDROS technology and all of the aspects that are involved, to cut minutes off of a 1-hour procedure, or a 40-minute procedure or a 30-minute procedure, and make it even 5, 10, or 15 minutes shorter, allows the patient to get off of the operating room table faster. It allows a faster recovery, and it allows you to be able to do more surgeries in the same day. So we're offering BPH technology and treatments to more patients.

This transcript was AI generated and edited by human editors for clarity.