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Objectives: This review evaluates the literature comparing Robotic-assisted and Conventional Knee Arthroplasty based on accuracy, operative time, and patient outcomes. It aims to determine the potential of robotic-assisted surgeries in orthopedics and other surgical fields to provide guidance to medical professionals on best practices in Knee Arthroplasty. Methods / Evidence Acquisition: This study conducted a search for evidence primarily on two databases: PubMed and Web of Science, with two additional articles found in the National Library of Medicine. The search utilized the term “Robotic Assisted Total Knee Arthroplasty” matched with various Mesh terms. Only articles published between 2018 and the present were included for evidence collection. Results and Discussion / Evidence Synthesis: The measurement of the postoperative Hip-Knee-Ankle (HKA) in comparison to the preoperative plan demonstrated significantly greater accuracy in Robotic Assisted Total Knee Arthroplasty (RATKA). Furthermore, the number of outliers was significantly less in RATKA. Conversely, the operative time was significantly longer in RATKA. Patient outcomes, including estimated blood loss, length of stay, complications, the number of revision surgeries, and C-Reactive Protein (CRP), did not differ significantly between the two techniques; however, estimated blood loss, length of stay, and CRP displayed a trend toward better outcomes in RATKA. The results of the analysis revealed a clear advantage in terms of cost effectiveness for RATKA. Conclusions: Patients who require higher accuracy levels for optimal outcomes should undergo RATKA. Conversely, patients at higher risk for intraoperative complications as surgery duration increases should opt for conventional TKA.

Objective: To find the effect of body mass index (BMI) to perioperative outcome and pathological outcome of open retropubic radical prostatectomy focusing in estimated blood loss, operative time and surgical margin status. Methods: The authors reviewed medical history of 81 prostate cancer patients who were treated with open radical prostatectomy at Ramathibodi Hospital between January 1997 and August 2010. The patients were divided into 2 groups by BMI. The first group included patients with BMI < 25 kg/m2 and the second group included patients with BMI gif.latex?\geq 25 kg/m2. Then preoperative, perioperative and pathological data of both groups were compared. Result: There is no difference in estimated blood loss, operative time and surgical margin status between patients with < 25 kg/m2 and patients with BMI gif.latex?\geq 25 kg/m2 Conclusion: The present study shows that BMI was not the predictor of estimated blood loss, operative time and surgical margin status of open retropubic radical prostatectomy in prostate cancer patient.