Residual Heat of Laparoscopic Energy Devices – How Long Must the Surgeon Wait Until Touching Additional Tissue
Henry Govekar, MD, Thomas N Robinson, MD, Greg V Stiegmann, MD, Francis T McGreevy, BSEE. University of Colorado School of Medicine Introduction: Energy devices are essential laparoscopic tools. Residual heat is defined as the increased instrument temperature after energy activation is completed. The purpose of our study was to determine how long a surgeon needs… Continue Reading
Retained Needles in Laparoscopic Surgery. Open Or Observe?
Kimberly A Ruscher, MD MPH, Kevin A Modeste, MBBS, Pavlos K Papasavas, MD, Darren S Tishler, MD. Hartford Hospital, University of Connecticut Introduction Currently, there is no standard of care on how to manage a retained needle or small foreign body during laparoscopic surgery. There are several reports of complications associated with retained surgical foreign… Continue Reading
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Single Incision Laparoscopic Appendectomy Using Only One Trocar with a Novel Solution for Laparosocope Defogging
Jonathan D Svahn, MD FACS, Matthew R Dixon, MD. Kaiser Permanente East Bay Laparoscopic appendectomy has become the standard of care in many hospitals.LA affords the patient the well known benefits of minimally invasive surgery namelybetter cosmetic results, less pain and quicker recovery. (1) Single incision surgery is increasingly reported and has been described as… Continue Reading
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Single Incision Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Using Spider Surgical System
T Katagiri, MD, S Nijhawan, MD, S Majid, MD, B Sandler, MD, T Dotai, MD, O Meireles, MD, M Talamini, MD, S Horgan, MD. University of California , San Diego SILS offers a number of potential advantages compared to laparoscopic surgery. This video shows SILS cholecystectomy using SPIDER surgical system. Session: VidTV3Program Number: V104 Continue Reading
Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery-Innovative Traction/retraction Techniques
Gadiyaram Srikanth, MCh, Deepak Dubey, Neel Shetty. Manipal Institute of Liver and Digestive Diseases Background: Single incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) has opened up new frontiers in minimally invasive surgery. However, several technical challenges call for innovations to facilitate a variety of maneuvers during these procedures. We herein describe various innovations done by us to achieve… Continue Reading
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Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery: What Do Patients Really Want?
Kalman Bencsath, MD, Gavin Falk, MD, Matthew Kroh, MD, R. Matthew Walsh, MD, Sricharan Chalikonda, MD. The Cleveland Clinic Introduction:Recent modifications to instruments and technique have allowed for more procedures to be performed with fewer scars, and single incision laparoscopic surgery has become a focused topic. Experimentation with single incision surgeries has been called a… Continue Reading
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Single-Port Access Surgery: The Effect of Different Ports on the Operative Technical Skills of Expert Laparoscopic Surgeons
Georgios Pafitanis, MD MSc, Sudip K Sarker, PhD DIC FRCSGlas FRCSEng FRCSGen, Shal-Jalal Sarker, PhD FRSS FPSI, Bijendra Patel, MS FRCS FRCS Gen. Bart's and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary's University of London, Department of Upper GI Surgery, Bart's and The Royal London Hospital Introduction – Objective of the study Single-Port… Continue Reading
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Single Port Cholecystectomy: A Standard Technique
Michael Kia, DO, Christine Lee. Michigan State University, Mclaren Regional Med Ctr, Genesys Regional Med Ctr The video is a description of a novel technique in single port surgery. Using a four port single access trocar system, a methodology for single port cholecystectomy is described. The procedure is performed through a pre-measured 15mm fascial defect.… Continue Reading
Single Port Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy with Transenterix Spider: Early Success in Humans
Chan W Park, MD, Hector R Herrera Cabral, MD, Roberto J Manson, MD, Aurora D Pryor, MD. Duke Endosurgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Introduction: Single port cholecystectomy is one of the more commonly performed single site/access surgeries and is accomplished with a variety of techniques. However, single port surgery is often limited by poor… Continue Reading
Single Site Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy with Transenterix Spider: A Novel Device and Surgical Technique
Chan W Park, MD, Aurora D Pryor, MD. Duke Endosurgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Single site laparoscopic cholecystectomy is one of the more commonly performed single site/access surgeries today, and is successfully accomplished with a variety of different techniques. Single site surgery presents some unique challenges, and a number of surgical devices and instruments… Continue Reading
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The Concept and Development of a Single Port Access Device
David S Edelman, MD. Doctor's Hospital, Coral Gables, Florida Many surgeons have excellent ideas that would enhance the progress of surgical technology. However, there is little published information available on the protection of intellectual property. A single access port was designed and the development process is described.In early 2008, the author met with a chemical-biomedical… Continue Reading
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The Feasibility of 2mm Needle Forceps for Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
Akiko Umezawa, MD, Hideharu Shimizu, MD, Yosuke Seki, MD, Yuka Negishi, MD, Kazunori Kasama, MD FACS, Yoshimochi Kurokawa, MD. Minimally invasive surgery center, Yotsuya Medical Cube Objective: To determine the feasibility and limit of needle forceps for laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) and its usability for single incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy (TANKO) and choledocholithotomy. Materials and methods: During… Continue Reading
The Ligasure Vessel Sealing Device in 535 Consecutive Intestinal Resections
R F Sing, DO, K W Kercher, MD, T Munsell, I Belyansky, MD, V B Tsirline, MD, B T Heniford, MD. Division of GI and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC Introduction: The goal of this study is to determine the safety and efficacy of the Ligasure vessel sealing device as an alternative… Continue Reading
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The Use of Mini Laparoscopy in a Peritoneal Dialysis Patient with Acute Cholecystitis
F A Morfesis, MD, Brian P Rose, BS. Owen Drive Surgical Clinic of Fayetteville, East Carolina University Introduction: The use of laparoscopy in patients requiring peritoneal dialysis is the preferred method of placement. In this case report, we highlight the use of "mini" laparoscopy in a PD patient requiring cholecystectomy. We use this approach based… Continue Reading
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Use of the Endoflip Catheter to Size Sleeve Gastrectomies and Gastric Imbrications
Daniel Cottam, MD, Sunil Sharma, MD, Christine Richards, MD, Mahendra Narwaria, MBBS. Surgical Weight Loss Center of Utah Introduction: Gastric Imbrication and Sleeve Gastrectomy are both procedures which utilize bougies to size the new stomachs. However, bougies don't allow the surgeon to tell if the stomach is too tight or too big. Bougies also does… Continue Reading
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