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Dr. Roger Sur

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BackTable Urology
Ep. 197 Suction Devices in Urology: Improving Stone Removal with Dr. Roger Sur

I do think they recommend probably a couple of mentored cases with your territory manager from the company, just making sure you're using the best practices. But no, this does not require specialized training.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 197 Suction Devices in Urology: Improving Stone Removal with Dr. Roger Sur

Well, I think that number is evolving. What I say today is going to be even greater in a month from now. Like having seen some of the numbers that I've seen of utilization of suction devices and their uptake in the market, it's almost asymptotic. It's really increasing dramatically.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 197 Suction Devices in Urology: Improving Stone Removal with Dr. Roger Sur

Well, I think that number is evolving. What I say today is going to be even greater in a month from now. Like having seen some of the numbers that I've seen of utilization of suction devices and their uptake in the market, it's almost asymptotic. It's really increasing dramatically.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 197 Suction Devices in Urology: Improving Stone Removal with Dr. Roger Sur

Well, I think that number is evolving. What I say today is going to be even greater in a month from now. Like having seen some of the numbers that I've seen of utilization of suction devices and their uptake in the market, it's almost asymptotic. It's really increasing dramatically.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 197 Suction Devices in Urology: Improving Stone Removal with Dr. Roger Sur

Well, we know that dusting compared to just fragmenting and basketing can be a little bit longer in operative time. So that being said, when the final studies are done, it would not surprise me if there's a slight increase in operative time. But if that time is a couple of minutes in exchange for having to come back to the O.R.,

BackTable Urology
Ep. 197 Suction Devices in Urology: Improving Stone Removal with Dr. Roger Sur

Well, we know that dusting compared to just fragmenting and basketing can be a little bit longer in operative time. So that being said, when the final studies are done, it would not surprise me if there's a slight increase in operative time. But if that time is a couple of minutes in exchange for having to come back to the O.R.,

BackTable Urology
Ep. 197 Suction Devices in Urology: Improving Stone Removal with Dr. Roger Sur

Well, we know that dusting compared to just fragmenting and basketing can be a little bit longer in operative time. So that being said, when the final studies are done, it would not surprise me if there's a slight increase in operative time. But if that time is a couple of minutes in exchange for having to come back to the O.R.,

BackTable Urology
Ep. 197 Suction Devices in Urology: Improving Stone Removal with Dr. Roger Sur

And or readmitting your patient for, you know, obstructing stone or a patient coming to the hospital with an infection and sepsis. Wouldn't it make sense to spend that extra whatever couple of minutes, whether it's single digit minutes or even double digit minutes? I don't think we're talking large amounts of time, but yeah, that's probably the difference is we're talking.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 197 Suction Devices in Urology: Improving Stone Removal with Dr. Roger Sur

And or readmitting your patient for, you know, obstructing stone or a patient coming to the hospital with an infection and sepsis. Wouldn't it make sense to spend that extra whatever couple of minutes, whether it's single digit minutes or even double digit minutes? I don't think we're talking large amounts of time, but yeah, that's probably the difference is we're talking.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 197 Suction Devices in Urology: Improving Stone Removal with Dr. Roger Sur

And or readmitting your patient for, you know, obstructing stone or a patient coming to the hospital with an infection and sepsis. Wouldn't it make sense to spend that extra whatever couple of minutes, whether it's single digit minutes or even double digit minutes? I don't think we're talking large amounts of time, but yeah, that's probably the difference is we're talking.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 197 Suction Devices in Urology: Improving Stone Removal with Dr. Roger Sur

Not like hours or anything. We're just talking minutes of differences, probably, which translate huge for post-op for the patient.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 197 Suction Devices in Urology: Improving Stone Removal with Dr. Roger Sur

Not like hours or anything. We're just talking minutes of differences, probably, which translate huge for post-op for the patient.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 197 Suction Devices in Urology: Improving Stone Removal with Dr. Roger Sur

Not like hours or anything. We're just talking minutes of differences, probably, which translate huge for post-op for the patient.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 197 Suction Devices in Urology: Improving Stone Removal with Dr. Roger Sur

plug and play see what's going to work well for my hands how do i actually make this happen you just simply call these companies up and they would be happy to come to your hospital once this you know the device has been approved by your vac committee i'm sure a trial is set up and then you get to try the different devices to see what which device makes sense to you it's not challenging there's the barriers are not huge they're very low

BackTable Urology
Ep. 197 Suction Devices in Urology: Improving Stone Removal with Dr. Roger Sur

plug and play see what's going to work well for my hands how do i actually make this happen you just simply call these companies up and they would be happy to come to your hospital once this you know the device has been approved by your vac committee i'm sure a trial is set up and then you get to try the different devices to see what which device makes sense to you it's not challenging there's the barriers are not huge they're very low

BackTable Urology
Ep. 197 Suction Devices in Urology: Improving Stone Removal with Dr. Roger Sur

plug and play see what's going to work well for my hands how do i actually make this happen you just simply call these companies up and they would be happy to come to your hospital once this you know the device has been approved by your vac committee i'm sure a trial is set up and then you get to try the different devices to see what which device makes sense to you it's not challenging there's the barriers are not huge they're very low

BackTable Urology
Ep. 197 Suction Devices in Urology: Improving Stone Removal with Dr. Roger Sur

Any capital equipment requirements for any of these? Definitely not for fans because that's literally a high-speed access sheet. The CVAC does have a control box, but kind of like any reader scope, digital reader scope, it has a control box. It's pretty tiny. It's about the size of a large laptop maybe. I don't know the answer to that as far as the capital of that.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 197 Suction Devices in Urology: Improving Stone Removal with Dr. Roger Sur

Any capital equipment requirements for any of these? Definitely not for fans because that's literally a high-speed access sheet. The CVAC does have a control box, but kind of like any reader scope, digital reader scope, it has a control box. It's pretty tiny. It's about the size of a large laptop maybe. I don't know the answer to that as far as the capital of that.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 197 Suction Devices in Urology: Improving Stone Removal with Dr. Roger Sur

Any capital equipment requirements for any of these? Definitely not for fans because that's literally a high-speed access sheet. The CVAC does have a control box, but kind of like any reader scope, digital reader scope, it has a control box. It's pretty tiny. It's about the size of a large laptop maybe. I don't know the answer to that as far as the capital of that.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 197 Suction Devices in Urology: Improving Stone Removal with Dr. Roger Sur

In fact, my sense, I don't want to speak, I'm really not sure.