Hi folks,
Been a while since I've joined the conversation but have been reading from time-to-time. I had da Vinci on Wed., March 7 at Vanderbilt. Well, I started to have it. They'd made the 1st incision above the belly button and had blown up my abdominal cavity w/ CO2 and then I had a vagal response (that is, I crashed, "pulled an Elvis", BP and HR decline). This evened-out, but there some repetetive cardiac events that both the anesthesiolgoist and the surgeon disliked so they aborted the surgery then and there. Subsequent stress-test and echocardiogram all proved within normal limits (the echo showed some minimal hardening of arteries consistent with a 55-year-old's profile). So we're proceeding March 27th with a 2nd attempted laparascopic prostatectomy. The anethesiologist, a great person as were all of the staff at Vandy, plans on having a tracheal echocardiogram and blood chemisty going on during this next round. Any info you all have about any of this or direct experience would be helpful. Best to all of you. Tom
Diagnosed early Nov. '06; scheduled for da Vinci @ Vanderbilt 3/7/07