Can the Learning Curve of Totally Endoscopic Robotic Mitral Valve Repair be Short-Circuited?

Abstract

Totally endoscopic robotic mitral valve repair can be safely performed after a pretraining regimen with emphasis on experts' current practice and team training. After a pretraining regimen, cross-clamp times were not subject to learning curve phenomena but were dependent on procedural complexity. Nonclamp times were associated with a short learning curve.