This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics will focus on Robotic Surgery. Article topics will include robotic cardaic surgery, robotoc urologic surgery, anesthesia with robotic surgery, robotic surgery in a rural hospital, patient positioning, keeping pace with robotic technology, and educational competencies for robotic surgery.--publisher description.

"September 2011."

Robotics: not your grandmother's surgery / Nancy Girard -- Robotic surgery is here to stay / John Zender -- Keeping pace with robotic technology / Rena Thompson and Mariana Boyle -- Developing a successful robotic surgery program in a rural hospital / John Zender and Christina G. Thell -- Role of the perioperative nurse in robotic surgery / Cynthia C. Thomas -- Patient advocacy in robotic surgery / Christiana G. Thell -- Robotic surgery in urology / Phillip Mucksavage and David S. Chou -- Robotic liver surgery / Kamran Idrees and David L. Bartlett -- Technological advances in robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery / Gerald Y. Tan, Raj K. Goel, Jihad H. Kaouk, and Ashutosh K. Tewari -- Robotic surgery of the mediastinum / Annemarie Weissenbacher, Florian Augustin, and Johannes Bodner -- Laparoscopic liver resection - current update / Kevin Tri Nguyen and David A. Geller.