Ramakrishnan, A. S.
Kothari, Jagdish
Dabas, Surender Kumar
Munnikrishnan, Venkatesh
Sudheer, O. V.
Vishnoi, Jeewan Ram
Singh, Shivendra
Dixit, Jagannath
Nayak, Sandeep
Sharma, Ashwani
Parikh, Devendra
Paneer, Venkat
Kapoor, Priya
Somashekhar, S. P.
Bharadwaj, Krishna M. S.
Gupta, Divya
Dahiya, Akhil https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1303-5141
Funding for this research was provided by:
Intuitive Surgical
Article History
Received: 26 October 2024
Accepted: 25 April 2025
First Online: 16 May 2025
Declarations
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: AD and KB are employees of Intuitive Surgical, California, US. The other authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest concerning the publication of this work. The study was conducted independently, and the authors have no connections to, affiliations with, or financial relationships to any organizations that could unduly prejudice the content of this work.
: The institutional ethics committee (IEC) or institutional review board (IRB) of each participating center granted permission for the study. The study was registered at the Clinical Trials Registry of India website with registration number CTRI/2023/03/050448.
: Since this was a retrospective study that involved the collection of de-identified data without any direct participant interaction, the IRB/IEC waived the requirement for informed consent. Every study procedure conforms to the ethical norms of the participating institutions as well as the Declaration of Helsinki.
: The corresponding author gives consent for this work to be published on behalf of all the authors.
: There are no financial interests of the authors that ought to be disclosed.