Shohan Shetty, MD, Sebastian Wilk, Vinay Bhamidipati, Inam Shaikh, MD, Alexander J Palesty, MD, FACS St Mary’s Hospital, Waterbury, CT Introduction: Laparoscopic virtual reality (VR) simulators are becoming an essential tool in surgical training and assessment. These devices provide the operator with various levels of realism, including 3D (three-dimensional) visualization. However, this feature adds to […]
Julie Hallet, MD, FRCSC, Olivier Mailloux, MD, Mony Chhiv, MD, FRCSC, Roger C Gregoire, MD, FRCSC, Jean-Pierre Gagne, MD, LLM, FRCSC Department of Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universite de Quebec – Hôpital Saint-Francois d’Assise, Quebec Centre for Minimally Invasive Surgery, Quebec, QC, Canada Introduction: Most surgeons have quickly embraced the practice of minimally invasive surgery (MIS); […]
Kyo Young Song, MD Seoul St.Mary’s Hospital A 34 year-old woman underwent laparoscopic distal subtotal gastrectomy with D2 lymph node dissection for gastric cancer. According to the Japanese guideline, we have done classical D2 lymphadenectomy for #4d, 4sb, 5, 6, 7, 8a, 12a, 9, 11p, 1, and 3. All procedures including reconstruction were performed intracorporeally. […]
Sergio E Araujo, MD, PhD, Conor P Delaney, Md, MCh, PhD, Victor E Seid, MD, Antonio R Imperiale, MD, Paulo Herman, MD, PhD, Sergio C Nahas, MD, PhD, Ivan Cecconello, MdPhD Colorectal Surgery Division at University of Sao Paulo Medical Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil and Case Western Reserve University Center for Skills and Simulation, Cleveland, […]
James Ansell, Konstantinos Arnaoutakis, Stuart Goddard, Neil Warren, Jared Torkington Welsh Institute for Minimal Access Therapy The WIMAT colonoscopy suitcase is a novel, ex-vivo animal simulator designed to teach colonic polypectomy to trainee endoscopists. It has the capacity to simulate a range of polypectomy tasks and has been validated for skills training. Session: Podium Presentation […]