Completion of a Novel Virtual Reality-Based Suturing Curriculum Improves Laparoscopic Intracorporeal Knot Tying Skills in Novices
Shohan Shetty, MD, Lucian Panait, MD, Robert L Bell, MD, Kurt E Roberts, MD, Andrew J Duffy, MD. Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, Saint Mary's Hospital, Waterbury, CT Introduction: Training residents in advanced surgical skills is now possible, and even required, outside of the operating room. However, work-hour limits, increased patient volume,… Continue Reading
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- Posters
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- Education / Simulation
Are Advanced Laparoscopic Surgeons Ready to Embrace \’Touchy Feely\’ Feedback?
Susannah M Wyles, MSc MRCS, Danilo Miskovic, MD FRCS, John Griffith, MD FRCS, Roger Motson, MS FRCS, George B Hanna, PhD FRCS. Imperial College London, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Colchester General Hospital BackgroundEnsuring the maximum educational output is achieved by trainees from each training session is a priority for every trainer. Given that laparoscopic surgery is… Continue Reading
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- Posters
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- Education / Simulation
Gaze Training Improves Technical Performance and Resistance to Distractions in Virtual Laparoscopic Surgery
Mark Wilson, Sam Vine, James Brewer, Elizabeth Bright, Rich Masters, John McGrath. University of Exeter OBJECTIVES: The operating room environment is replete with stressors and distractions that increase the attentional demands of what are already complex psychomotor procedures. As the attentional control of novices appears to be particularly disrupted by auditory distractions, helping trainees to… Continue Reading
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- Podium Presentations
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- Education / Simulation
Defining a Proficiency-Based Virtual Reality Curriculum for Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery
Vanessa N Palter, MD, Maurtis Graafland, MD, Marlies P Schijven, MD PhD, Teodor P Grantcharov, MD PhD. St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, On, Canada., Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Introduction: Laparoscopic colorectal surgery is an advanced minimally invasive procedure with a long variable learning curve. Although task training on virtual reality simulators has been… Continue Reading
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- Podium Presentations
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- Education / Simulation
\’Working Against the Camera\’ During Minimally Invasive Surgery: Extending the Use of the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery Platform During Surgical Simulation
Enrico Danzer, MD, Kristoffel Dumon, MD, Mayank Mittal, MD, Amy Cha, MD, Kenric Murayama, MD, Jon B Morris, MD, Noel N Williams, MD, Andrew Resnick, MD. Department of General Surgery, University of Pennsylvania BackgroundThe SAGES Fundamentals of Laparoscopic surgery (FLS) is a validated program for the teaching and evaluation of the basic knowledge and skills… Continue Reading
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- Posters
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- Education / Simulation
Effectiveness of Telemedicine in a Forward Combat Environment
Robert B Lim, MD LTC, Alberto H Abadia, MD MAJ, Juan L Martin, MD MAJ, Antonio D Colomo, MD CPT. Spanish Role IIe Hospital in Herat Telemedicine has been touted as a way to augment a remote hospital's capabilities, but little has been published on its effects in the combat environment. Small surgical teams have… Continue Reading
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- Posters
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- Emerging Technology
Artificial Pneumothorax During Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy
Yosuke Izumi, MD PhD, Tairo Ryotokuji, MD, Akinori Miura, MD, Tsuyoshi Kato, Hiroshi Sato, MD, Kohei Kimura, MD. Tokyo Metropolitan Cancer and Infectious Diseases Center, Komagome Hospital Background: Minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) for esophageal cancer is increasingly being used with increasing skills and experience and advances of endoscopic technology such as high-resolution endoscopic system. The… Continue Reading
Laparoscopic Systematic Liver Resections: From Hybrid to Pure
Go Wakabayashi, MD PhD, Hiroyuki Nitta, MD PhD, Akira Sasaki, MD PhD. Department of Surgery, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine Background: Recent developments in liver surgery include the introduction of laparoscopic liver resection. Systematic liver resection appears to be superior to non-anatomical liver resection in operative and oncological results. World review of 2,804 laparoscopic… Continue Reading
New Device for Flexible Laparoscopy with Strength and Stability: Spider® Vertebral Endomechanical System
Juan-Carlos Verdeja, MD. South Miami Hospital Objective of the device:Initial technologies for single incision laparoscopy have primarily been access devices with multiple instrument ports crowded together for “inline” operation without the triangulation usually achieved via multiple trocars at the abdominal wall. The initial version of the SPIDER® surgical system (TranEnterix, Durham, NC) approved in 2008… Continue Reading
Leto Medical\’s™ Continent Ostomy System – A Preclinical Update of a Novel Electrical Stimulation Device to Restore Continence Control to Individuals with Colostomy
Jaime Cavallo, MD, John Minasi, MD, James Schneider, MBA, Seung Hyuk Baik, MD, Alyssa Fajardo, MD, Logan McKenna, BS, Michael Talcott, DVM, James Fleshman, MD. Leto Medical, LLC (Fernandina Beach, FL) and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Division of General Surgery - Colon & Rectal and Division of Comparative Medicine (St. Louis,… Continue Reading
Intraoperative Real-Time Ultrasound-Elastography of the Pancreas: A Method for \’Visual Palpation\’
Paolo Abitabile, MD, Christoph A Maurer, Prof. Department of Surgery, Kantonsspital Liestal, CH-4410 Liestal, Switzerland ObjectiveFirst experience with intraoperative real time ultrasound-elastography (USEG) in pancreatic surgery is reported. MethodsReal-time elastography is based on standard diagnostic ultrasound equipment. Backscattered signals along the longitudinal axis of the ultrasound transducer are analysed. The time-delay at compression and decompression… Continue Reading
A Novel Endoscopic Esophageal Reconstruction Technique
Silvana Perretta, MD, James Wall, MD, Bernard Dallemagne, MD, Jacques Marescaux, MD FRCS FACS. IRCAD Department of Digestive and Endocrine Surgery, University of Strasbourg Objective: Esophageal reconstruction presents a significant clinical challenge in patients ranging form neonates with long-gap esophageal atresia to adults after esophageal resection. Both gastric and colonic replacement conduits carry significant morbidity.… Continue Reading
Transabdominal, Transcolonic Polypectomies in a Porcine Model: Avoiding Unnecessary Bowel Resections with the Use of the Minilap Device
Donald M Davis, MD, James JL Mateka, Jorge E Marcet, MD. University of South Florida Introduction: Many benign colorectal polyps cannot be positioned correctly or reached by the endoscope for polypectomy. Accordingly, patients undergo surgical resection of involved bowel. Due to this fact, we have attempted to develop minimally invasive techniques in porcine models to… Continue Reading
New Technology for Colorectal Surveys
Nathalie Mantilla, MD, Ariane Abcarian, MD, Jose Cintron, MD, Marc Singer, MD, Herand Abcarian, MD. University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL. Northshore Medical Group, Highland Park, IL. PURPOSESelf-administered patient questionnaires are available in colorectal surgery, and can provide useful information for better classification and understanding of patients’ conditions and can be helpful with clinical… Continue Reading
A Comparative Study of Robotic Versus Conventional Open Modified Radical Neck Dissection for the Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma with Lateral Neck Node Metastasis
Sang-Wook Kang, MD, So Hee Lee, MD, Haeng Rang Ryu, MD, Woong Youn Chung, MD. Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine Purpose: Since the introduction of endoscopic technique to thyroid surgery, several endoscopic lateral neck dissection trials have been conducted with the aim of avoiding a long cervical scar, and the recent introduction… Continue Reading