The Effect of Caffeine on Laparoscopic Skills Performance in Simulated Settings
Vincent Quan, BSc, Badriya S Alaraimi, MD, Walid Elbakbak, MSc, Amina Bouhelal, MSc, Ana Gavrila, BSc, Bijendra Patel, FRCS. Barts Cancer Institute - Queen Mary University of London, Academic Department of Upper GI Surgery - Barts and The London NHS Trust. Introduction Coffee is commonly consumed by many surgeons due to its suspected effect on… Continue Reading
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Development of a Virtual Reality Robotic Surgical Curriculum Using the Da Vinci SI Surgical System
Pedro P Gomez, MD, Ross E Willis, PhD, Kent R Van Sickle, MD. University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Introduction: Prior literature has shown content and construct validity for the “da Vinci skills simulator” package available in the “da Vinci Si system”. It is unclear which of the many provided virtual reality… Continue Reading
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Reliability of GOALS Scores using Generalizability Theory
E Bilgic, Y Watanabe, MD, L Lee, MD, M C Vassiliou, MD. Steinberg-Bernstein Centre for Minimally Invasive Surgery and Innovation, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Background: The Global Operative Assessment of Laparoscopic Skills (GOALS) is an objective assessment tool that had been used to assess performance in the operating room. Its reliability has… Continue Reading
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Starting a minimal invasive surgery program in colorectal cancer at the National Cancer Center Mexico. A Challenging environment for new procedures
Itzel Vela, MD, Angel Herrera, MD, Horacio Lopez Basave, MD, J Manuel Ruiz Molina, md, Javier Melchor, md, Rafael Vazquez, MD, Abelardo Meneses, MD. National Cancer Center Mexico. Introduction: Minimal invasive surgery in colorrectal cancer is a common practice in countries as US, this is still not true in countries as Mexico. In tertiary referral… Continue Reading
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One Size Fits All? the New Surgical Innovation Philosophy
Vivian De Ruijter, Pietro Riva, Natasha Waters, MD, Bernard Dallemagne, MD, Lee Swanstrom, MD, Jacques Marescaux, MD, Silvana Perretta, MD. IRCAD-IHU, University of Strasbourg, France. INTRODUCTION: The growing importance of novel technologies in medical science and healthcare demands tighter collaborations between engineering and medicine. Professionals from both worlds have to master a wide range of… Continue Reading
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Comparative Analysis of Laparoscopic and Robot-assisted Surgical Task Performance in Laparoscopic Novices and Experts
Ahmed M Zihni, MD, MPH, Jaime A Cavallo, MD, MPHS, Jason Chiu, BA, Ikechukwu Ohu, BS, Sohyung Cho, PhD, L. Michael Brunt, MD, FACS, Michael M Awad, MD, PhD. Washington University in St Louis, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. INTRODUCTION: Robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery (RALS) utilizes wristed instruments that provide more degrees of freedom than rigid traditional… Continue Reading
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The Business Engineering Surgical Technologies (BEST) Teaching Method: Incubating Talents for Surgical Innovation
Vivian De Ruijter, Peter Halvax, MD, Bernard Dallemagne, MD, Lee Swanstrom, MD, Jacques Marescaux, MD, Silvana Perretta, MD. IRCAD-IHU, University of Strasbourg, France. INTRODUCTION: Technological innovation in surgical science and healthcare is vital and calls for close collaboration between engineering and surgery. Platforms that facilitate effective and directed communication between professionals from both worlds would… Continue Reading
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THE SURGEON AND THE SCOPE: TALES FROM THE EARLY DAYS Tales from the Early Days of Laparoscopy at McGill
Katherine M McKendy, MD, Yusuke Watanabe, MD, Ekaterina Lebedeva, MLIS, Liane S Feldman, MD, Gerald M Fried, MD, Melina C Vassiliou, MD, MEd. McGill University Health Centre, Jewish General Hospital. This video is a compilation of interviews with the surgeons who pioneered the implementation of laparoscopic surgery at McGill. Using semi-structured interviews, we collected the… Continue Reading
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