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Virtual Electrosurgery Skills Trainer (VEST TM ) Bipolar Energy Module May be Used with FUSE Curriculum to Improve Safety in Using Bipolar Devices

Ganesh Sankaranarayanan, PhD1, Carlos Lopez, PhD2, Nicholas Milef2, Rehma Shabbir, MBBS1, Coleman Odlozil1, Darius Sherman1, Jaisa Olasky, MD3, Katerina Wells, MD1, Sanket Chauhan, MD1, James Fleshman, MD1, Suvranu De, ScD2, Daniel B Jones, MD4. 1Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, 2Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 3Mt Auburn Hospital, 4Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CcenterINTRODUCTION: Bipolar energy can cause… Continue Reading

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Posters
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Education / Simulation

videoscopic transareolar thyroidectomy

Mohamed Salah, MD. Faculty Of Medicine Benisuef UniversityIntroduction: Videoscopic neck surgery is developing despite the fact that only potential spaces exist in the neck. Gagner first described the endoscopic subtotal parathyroidectomy with constant CO2 gas insufflations for hyperparathyroidism in 1996. The cervical approach utilizes small incisions in the neck thus making it cosmetically unacceptable and… Continue Reading

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Posters
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Minimally Invasive Other

Videolaparoscopic treatment for Wilkie syndrome developed 10 years after a Heller-Dor procedure for achalasia.

Felipe C Victer, MD, FACS, Pedro Henrique Salgado Rodrigues, MD, Andre M Silva, MD. Hospital Federal do Andaraímale 45 years old suffering from achalasia were submiited a heller dor procedure 10 years agor. Despite the fact of better life outcome, he begins to suffer difficulties to swallon in the last yera. During investigation it was… Continue Reading

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Posters
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Case Presentations

VIDEO ENDOSCOPIC TREATMENT OF COMPLEX ANAL FISTULA-RESULTS OF SERIES OF 210 CASES.

Prof Subhash Khanna. Swagat Super Speciality Surgical InstituteTreatment of complex anal fistula has always been a nightmare for surgeonsby conventional means. Even the lowest and simple looking fistula at times comes out to be a complex one with high incidence of recurrence above 20 %. Most of the availability diagnostic including MRI is nit conclusive… Continue Reading

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Posters
Topic:
Colorectal

Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery in Pulmonary Hydatidosis

Shubham Gupta, MS, Gagandeep Talwar, Jasmine Agarwal, Ajay Bhandarwar, MS, Amol Wagh, MS, Saurabh Gandhi, MS. Grant Government Medical College & Sir JJ Group of Hospitals, IndiaIntroduction: Hydatidosis is a zoonotic disease caused by Echinococcus granulosus. It is endemic in the Mediterranean, South America and middle east. It is a systemic disease wherein lungs are… Continue Reading

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Posters
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Minimally Invasive Other

Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Pulmonary Wedge Resection in a Patient with Hemopytsis and Intralobar Sequestration: A Case Report

Mary K Lindemuth, MD, Subrato J Deb, MD. The University of Oklahoma Health Science CenterCase Report: A 19-year-old male with history of Noonan’s syndrome, bronchitis, and asthma presented with acute hemoptysis.  While chest x-ray was unremarkable, a computed tomography angiogram of his chest was significant for intralobar pulmonary sequestration in the right lower lobe.  The… Continue Reading

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Posters
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Case Presentations

VASCULAR SURPRISES IN CALOT’S TRIANGLE DURING LAPROSCOPIC CHOLEYSTECTOMY

Tariq Nawaz, MD. Rawalpindi Medical UniversityStudy Design: Prospective and observational study. Place and Duration: From January, 2012 to July 2017. Surgical Unit ll, Holy Family Hospital, Rawalpindi. Patients and Methods: Thousand patients with a diagnosis of cholithiasis were included. Exclusion criteria are patient younger than 12 year and older than 80 year.  Calot’s triangle dissection was done… Continue Reading

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Posters
Topic:
Biliary

Variability in Cost for Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy: A National Analysis

Vikrom K Dhar, MD, Koffi Wima, MS, Brad M Watkins, Shimul A Shah, MD, Jonathan R Thompson, MD. University of CincinnatiObjective: Determinants of cost for laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) are poorly defined.  We aim to characterize the variability in cost for LSG at the national level and identify which factors are predictive of increased cost.… Continue Reading

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Posters
Topic:
Metabolic / Obesity

Value of a dual console in the introduction of robot-assisted colectomy

Yoshiyuki Sakamoto, PhD, Hajime Morohashi, PhD, Takuya Miura, PhD, Kentarou Satou, MD, Kenichi Hakamada, PhD. Hirosaki UniversityIntroduction: Robot-assisted colectomy may compensate for some of the disadvantages of conventional laparoscopic surgery by providing detailed high-vision three-dimensional images and magnified vision, forceps joint function, and preventing hand tremors. These attributes of robot surgery may be particularly useful… Continue Reading

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Posters
Topic:
Robotics

VALIDATION OF SIMULATOR FOR ASSESSMENT OF DEVELOPED SUTURING SKILLS 2nd report

Munenori Uemura, PhD1, Noriyuki Matsuoka2, Morimasa Tomikawa, MD, PhD1, Makoto Hashizume, MD, PhD1. 1Kyushu University, 2Kyoto Kagaku CompanyINTRODUCTION: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the validity of our developed system for assessing suturing skills in laparoscopic surgery (Fig. 1). We have updated numbers of participants and a comparison method compared with the last… Continue Reading

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Posters
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Education / Simulation

VALIDATION OF A VIRTUAL FLS INTRACORPOREAL SUTURING SIMULATOR

Yaoyu Fu1, Lora Cavuoto, PhD1, Trudi Qi, PhD2, Karthik Panneerselvam2, Venkata S Artikala, PhD3, Andinet Enquobahrie, PhD3, Suvranu De, PhD2, Steven D Schwaitzberg, MD4. 1University at Buffalo, 2Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 3Kitware, Inc., 4University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical SciencesINTRODUCTION: Intracorporeal suturing is one of the most important and difficult procedures in laparoscopic… Continue Reading

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Posters
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Education / Simulation

Vagal nerve blocking device explantation: case series and report of operative technique

Tarin C Worrest, MD1, Bruce M Wolfe, MD1, Samer G Mattar, MD2, Erin W Gilbert, MD1. 1Oregon Health and Sciences University, 2Swedish Medical CenterIntroduction: Vagal nerve blockade with the vBloc device (Enteromedics, St. Paul, MN) has been shown to provide sustained weight loss for patients with moderate obesity at two years. These devices occasionally require… Continue Reading

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Posters
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Metabolic / Obesity

UTILIZATION OF LAPAROSCOPY ASSOCIATED WITH BLUNT ABDOMINAL TRAUMA: THE NATIONWIDE INPATIENT SAMPLE 2004 – 2014

Kenneth W Bueltmann1, Marek Rudnicki2. 1Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, Il, 2University of IllinoisIntroduction: The incidence of trauma and its heavy burden upon the healthcare system remain strong.  Paradigm shifts in the management of these cases has, however, improved the mortality in such cases.  It can be expected that improvements in management, when combined… Continue Reading

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Posters
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Minimally Invasive Other

Utility of fibrin glue in robotic transversus abdominis release (RTAR)

Zachary Sanford, MD, Adam S Weltz, Igor Belyansky, MD. Department of Surgery, Anne Arundel Medical CenterIntroduction: The use of mesh fixation devices has become a subject of increasing debate in the minimally invasive surgical community, with recent data suggesting mesh fixation devices do not afford significant intraoperative and postoperative benefits in surgical outcomes.  This relationship… Continue Reading

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Posters
Topic:
Abdominal Wall Hernias

Using Magnetic Sphincter Augmentation for Treatment of Extra-esophageal Symptoms

Steven G Leeds, MD, Marc Ward, MD, Brittany Buckmaster, PA, Estrellita Ontiveros, MS. Baylor University Medical Center at DallasBackground: Gastric contents can reach beyond the esophagus into the larynx and pharynx causing an increasingly prevalent disease called laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR). Magnetic sphincter augmentation (MSA) has been used as an alternative treatment for GERD with good… Continue Reading

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Posters
Topic:
Foregut
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