Robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy is performed as a minimally invasive way to operate on patients with prostate cancer. During the procedure the patient is positioned at a steep tilt, so that the head is nearest the ground.

This has caused concern as the head-down position can hide the signs of haemorrhage due to the difference in blood pressure. In this case, an operation that should have taken 4 hours lasted for over 10 hours.

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Prof Michael Kidd AM, Editor-in-Chief

Prof Kidd is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University in Australia. He is president of the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) and a past president of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Case Reports, the world's first PubMed-listed journal devoted to publishing case reports from all medical disciplines.

"In the era of evidence-based practice, we need practice-based evidence. The basis of this evidence is the detailed information from the case reports of individual people which informs both our clinical research and our daily clinical care. Each case report published in this journal adds valuable new information to our medical knowledge."