Limit Potential Legal Liabilities in RARP Surgeries

There is a way to limit potential Legal Liabilities in RARP Surgeries.

Using standard of care technology in any surgical procedure may minimize litigation exposure if something goes wrong. Not using standard of care technology potentially opens a variety of liabilities for hospitals and surgeons.

Vital nerves are often in harm’s way during cancer surgery. This is true for Spine, Thyroid, Parotid, Colorectal and Radical Prostate surgery. Damaging any of the nerves in and around the surgical field in such surgeries can have long, lasting and devastating consequences for the patient and family members.

In Spine, Thyroid, and Parotid surgical procedures, nerve identification technology has been standard of care for years. The technology enables you to locate nerves, providing a surgeon with opportunities to minimize nerve trauma and increase confidence for better cancer surgery results. Institutions and surgeons not allowing these technologies to be used may encounter litigation if nerve damage is a result of the surgical procedure.

Thyroid, Parotid and Radical Prostate surgeries are all cancer surgeries involving removal of a gland that is surrounded and penetrated by vital nerves. The location of these nerves is highly variable from patient to patient and are often not visible.

Nerve identification in Thyroid, Parotid and Spine surgery is used every day by fellow surgeons in the same institutions where Radical Prostatectomies are performed. And although, patented Nerve identification for Radical Prostatectomy has been commercially available for 10 years, it is often not used, posing a greater risk for legal liabilities.

It’s time to limit the potential liability you impose on yourself and the institution. It’s time you offer this technology to your RARP patients.

Should you decide to trial the technology, just let us know. It’s free of charge.