New Surgical Stapler Designed to Decrease Cost Without Impacting Outcomes in Bariatric Surgery: An Analysis of 120 patients
Pablo Omelanczuk, MD1, Ryan C Broderick, MD2, Ezequiel Fernandez, MD3, Patricio Cal, MD3, Luciano Deluca, MD3, Santiago Horgan, MD2. 1Hospital Italiano de Mendoza, Argentina, 2University of California San Diego, 3Complejo Medico Policial Churruca-Visca, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaObjective: Evaluate safety and efficacy of a newly introduced stapler in bariatric surgery as compared to established surgical staplers. Introduction:… Continue Reading
Non-invasive Ingestible Sensing System for Gastrointestinal Secretion Analysis
Luke A Beardslee, PhD, MD, George E Banis, Justin M Stine, Rajendra Mayavan Sathyam, Reza Ghodssi, PhD. University of Maryland Objective of the technology or device: We report an ingestible capsule for pH-targeted sampling and sensing within the human gut. Current methods for evaluating gastrointestinal (GI) health entail imaging or endoscopic sampling. Repeated procedures can… Continue Reading
Novel augmented reality needle guidance for laparoscopic liver ablation
Lung W Lau, MD1, Xinyang Liu, PhD1, William Plishker, PhD1, David A Geller, MD2, Timothy D Kane1, MD, Raj Shekhar, PhD1. 1Children's National Health System, 2University of Pittsburgh Medical CenterObjective: Ablation needle placement is the critical step in laparoscopic ablation of unresectable liver tumors. Even to skilled surgeons, it can be difficult to correspond the… Continue Reading
Novel Clip Applicator for Minimally Invasive Surgery
Simon Erridge1, Christopher Payne2, Mikael Sodergren1. 1Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, UK, 2John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard UniversityObjective: Ligation clips are used ubiquitously throughout minimally invasive surgery for apposition of tissues. However, their size limits their application beyond ligation of small tubular structures. Traditional clip applicators only… Continue Reading
NOVEL SURGICAL DEVICES FOR LEFT–SIDED MINIMALLY INVASIVE COLORECTAL RESECTION WITH TRANSRECTAL SPECIMEN EXTRACTION AND INTRACORPOREAL ANASTOMOSIS
Eric M Haas, MD, FACS, FASCRS. 1) Department of Surgery, Division of Minimally Invasive Colon and Rectal Surgery, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas 2) Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas 3) South East Clinical Research Associates, Inc.Objective: A major drawback of minimally invasive left-sided (LS)… Continue Reading
Retrograde Endoluminal Vac Therapy: A Novel Approach to Improve Patient Tolerance
Kevin Brown, MD, Alisan Fathalizadeh, MD, John Rodriguez, MD. Cleveland Clinic FoundationObjective: Gastric leaks following bariatric surgery are among the most feared postoperative complications. Although revisional surgery is a treatment option, it carries a higher morbidity and mortality than conservative measures and endoscopic therapy. Although only a handful of cases exist for endoluminal vac therapy… Continue Reading
Robotic Assisted Intracorporeal 3-D Tissue Engineering – The Evolutionary Next Step
Desmond M D'Souza, MD, FACS1, Andre Simeunovic2, Ali A Adib2, Peter Kneuertz, MD1, David Hoelzle, PhD2. 1The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, 2The Ohio State UniversityObjective: 1. Develop tissue engineered materials that are friendly to the intracorporeal environment 2. Develop new additive manufacturing-based (also termed 3-D printing) robotic surgery instruments to deliver such material.… Continue Reading
SINGLE BIDIRECTIONAL BARBED SUTURE WITH MIDLINE LOCKING MECHANISM FOR TRANSANAL TRANSVERSE WOUND CLOSURE
Alberto Arezzo. University of TorinoThe video shows the use of a barbed suture of a novel concept. This first prototype thread developed together with Assut Europe (Roma, Italy) is characterised by a bidirectional 3/0 barbed suture, of 24 cm length overall, with two needles 22 mm in diameter, and ½ circumference. In order to fix the… Continue Reading
Spyglass cholangioscopy for Cystic duct stump calculi and Mirizzi,s-A Technique for future
Prof Subhash Khanna, MS, FICS, FIAGES, FALS. Swagat Super Speciality Surgical InstituteObjective: The aim of this study was to look at the feasibility of using the new version of cholangioscope (Boston Scientific ) in managing the left out calculi in the postcholecystectomy stump and also in cases of Mirizzi's syndrome where the laparoscopic surgery may… Continue Reading
Subcutaneous endoscopic assisted ligation for inguinal hernia repairs in children – first large US experience and matched comparison with open hernia repair
Raghavendra Rao, MD, Michael Smith, Troy Markel, MD, Brian Gray, MD, Matthew Landman, MD. IUIntroduction: The subcutaneous endoscopic assisted ligation (SEAL) is a technique of pediatric laparoscopic hernia repair which has recently been incorporated by pediatric surgeons. This technical details of SEAL remain controversial. We present the outcomes of our large experience with this technique in… Continue Reading
SUBCUTANEOUS ONLAY LAPAROSCOPIC APPROACH (SCOLA) FOR MESH REPAIR OF UMBILICAL HERNIA WITH CONCURRENT PLICATION OF DIASTASIS RECTI
Caroline T Dong, MD, David M Pechman, MD, MBA, David Weithorn, MD, Prashanth V Sreeramoju, MD, MPH, FACS, Diego R Camacho, MD, FACS, Flavio Malcher Martins De Oliveira, MD, MSc. Montefiore Medical CenterBACKGROUND: Patients presenting for evaluation of umbilical hernias are often found to have concomitant diastasis recti. Isolated repair of hernia defects in these patients may not provide complete symptomatic… Continue Reading
Surgical Management of Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformation: A Novel Use of Intuitive/DaVinci Firefly Technology
Corbin Cleary, MD, Ziyad Nasrawi, MD, Angelo Reyes, Raffaelle Borriello. New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist HospitalPulmonary arteriovenous malformations are rare pathological conditions resulting from an atypical connection between arterial and venous systems within the pulmonary vasculature. These lesions bypass the capillary beds and can grow over time, leading to right-to-left shunts, possibly causing hypoxia or… Continue Reading
System Factors in the OR: Measurement and intervention with the OR Black Box
Robert C Adams-McGavin, B, Eng1, James J Jung, MD1, Anne H van Dalen, MD, BSc2, Marlies P Schijven, MD, PhD, MHSc2, Teodor P Grantcharov, MD, PhD1. 1International Centre for Surgical Safety, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, 2Dept of surgery, Amsterdam Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, the… Continue Reading
Teamwork Leadership Training for Medical Professionals with First-Person Simulation Video Gameplay
Yen-Yi Juo, Sophia Poorsattar, Cameron Rice, Yue-Ming Huang, Markus Iseli, John Joon Lee, Alan Koenig, Rukhsana Khan, Rachel Lewin, Michael Smith, Federica Raia, Noreen Webb, Areti Tillou, Randolph Steadman. UCLAOBJECTIVE: To develop a first-person interactive computer simulation game that can train medical professionals to lead an ad hoc team. DESCRIPTION: During trauma code activations or crises… Continue Reading
The BODY-Q Bariatric Module: Developing a patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs) system to assess novel bariatric technologies
Danny Mou, MD1, Claire E de Vries, MD2, R N van Veen, MD3, D Makarawung4, Lisa van den Berg1, S W Nienhuijs, MD5, Ronald S Liem, MD6, MJ Wiezer, MD7, Maarten Hoogbergen, MD8, Andrea Pusic, MD1, Anne Klassen, DPhil9, Ali Tavakkoli, MD1. 1Brigham and Women's Hospital, 2Arts-onderzoeker bariatrische chirurgie, 3Obesitas Centrum Amsterdam, 4Netherlands Obesity Clinic,… Continue Reading