The day before surgery you should have only clear liquids and nothing after midnight. The operating room will contact you the day before with information regarding when to arrive at the hospital and where.
Post-operative hospital stay
The surgery takes approximately 3-4 hours. You will be in the recovery room for 2-4 hours and then go to your hospital room. Occasionally, you may stay next to the recovery room depending on bed availability.
If you are undergoing a robotic prostatectomy, occasionally we may need to convert to an open radical prostatectomy if the operation is not progressing well or intraoperative findings dictate that an open operation would be better.
The vast majority of patients will leave the hospital the day after surgery. However, if additional recovery time is needed then we can easily accommodate the additional hospital stay.
We performed a comparison between open and robotic prostatectomy. All data below is from the time of surgery. Patients undergoing a Robotic prostatectomy had less blood loss and less narcotic use in the hospital.
Health Outcome Measure |
DVP(median) (Robotic) |
RRP(median) (Open) |
P value |
EBL (estimated blood loss) |
100cc |
900cc |
<0.001 |
Operative time |
207min |
161min |
<0.001 |
Hospital Narcotic Use |
32mg |
48mg |
0.001 |
LOS (length of hospital stay) |
1 day |
1 day |
Ns |
Time of narcotic use |
9 days |
9 days |
Ns |
Time to Normal Activity |
9 days |
8 days |
Ns |
Time to driving |
13 days |
14 days |
Ns |
Time to 100% Activity |
21 days |
28 days |
Ns |
