The New Fexible Trocar for Single Port Surgery
M. Yamagata, title, M. Matsuda, title, S. Hayashi, title, K. Hagiwara, MD, T. Takayama, PhD. Department of digestive surgery,Nihon Universuty SPG spreads explosively now. However, maximal problem is in single port surgery that all of the operation is performed from an isologues direction and operative degree of difficulty increase with distance between navel and… Continue Reading
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Thoracoscopic Esophagectomy in the Prone Position
Hidehito Shibasaki, MD PhD, Takahiro Kinoshita, MD PhD, Akira Ogata, MD PhD, Masaru Miyazaki, Prof. Matsudo City Hospital, Department of Surgery Thoracoscopic esophagectomy performed with the patient in the left lateral position has been occasionally reported since the 1990s, but it has not been established as a standard procedure. This may be because the… Continue Reading
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Transaxillary Endoscopic Thyroid Lobectomy Using the Spider Surgical System
Barnard J Palmer, MD, Bernadette U Laxa, MD, William B Inabnet, MD. Mount Sinai School of Medicine Transaxillary endoscopic thyroidectomy has been used more widely in recent years as technology advances. However, with monetary and time restraints of robotic use and difficulties with techniques of insufflation in a closed subcutaneous space, we utilize an… Continue Reading
Universal Multifunctional Hd Video System for Minimally Invasive, Open and Micro Surgery
Nicholas N Nissen, MD, Vijay Menon, MD, James Williams, BA, Steven D Colquhoun, MD, George Berci, MD. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA Introduction: Laparoscopy provides an important tool in the management of abdominal pathology, both as a method of staging prior to laparotomy and, increasingly, as a method of tumor removal. Some of… Continue Reading
Workload Assessment of Surgeons: Correlation Between Nasa Tlx and Blinks
Bin Zheng, MD PhD, Xianta Jiang, Msc, Geoffery Tien, Msc, Adam Meneghetti, MD, Neely Panton, MD, Stella Atkins, PhD. University of British Columbia Objective: Blinks are known as an indicator of visual attention and stresses. When an operator is overloaded, he will tend to blink less, and quickly. In this study, surgeons’ mental workloads… Continue Reading