This talk was presented at the 2018 SAGES Meeting/16th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery by Richard A Pierce during the Postgraduate Course: Minimally Invasive Advances in Complex Hernia Repair on April 12 2018
Keyword(s): abdominal malignancies, abdominal wall reconstruction, AHS-QC, American Hernia Society Quality Collaborative, AWR, BMI, body mass index, bowel prep, Carolinas Comfort Scale, CCS, chlorhexidine, clinic, complex hernia repair, complications, cost, CT scan, defect closure, diabetes, epidural, evaluation, fixation, GDP, gross domestic product, hernia defect, hernia surgeon, incidence, incisional hernia, inpatient, Intuitive, laparoscopic ventral hernia repair, length of stay, LOS, LVHR, mesh, mesh infection, meta-analysis, midline, minimally invasive, myofascial release, open repair, operative time, outcomes, patient outcomes, prophylaxis, QoL, quality, quality of life, questionnaire, recurrence, registry, retromuscular drain, right colectomy, robot, robotic, robotic approach, robotic hernia repair, seroma, SSI, SSO, surgical site infection, surgical site occurrence, TAP block, training, wound classification, wound complications
Scope of the problem–29 sec Ann Surg Oncol 2016
Can we improve VHR outcomes by using an MIS approach?–4:51 Hernia 2015
Hernias & value–6:48
The robot for AWR–8:08 Ann Surg 2018
Recurrence rate–11:07 Am J Surg 2016
6 things we’ve learned from AHS-QC–13:55 JACS 2017
Conclusion–15:12