Presented by Conrad Dizon Ballecer at the PG Course: Robotic Hernia Surgery – What can Robotics add to my Hernia Armamentarium? held during the 2017 SAGES Annual Meeting in Houston, TX on Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Keyword(s): abdominal wall, abdominal wall reconstruction, acute pain, AHSQC, algorithm, articulating instruments, atypical hernia, bariatric trocars, bladder, bridge repair, bridging, bulge, burping, camera, chronic pain, comorbidities, component separation, cord structures, cosmesis, CT scan, dead space, diaphragmatic hernia, diastasis recti, docking, ergonomics, Ethibond, failed, fascia, fat, fistula, fixation, flank hernia, foreign body, full thickness, general surgeon, groin, hernia armamentarium, hernia defect, hernia defect closure, hernia sac, incarcerated incisional hernia, incarcerated small bowel, incisional hernia, instrument, instruments, laparoscopy, linea alba, LOA, lysis of adhesions, medial rectus fascia, mesh, mesh fixation, minimal access, minimally invasive surgery, MIS ventral hernia repair, Morgagni hernia, muscle, obstruction, open hernia repair, overlap, partial nephrectomy, partial thickness circumferential suture fixation, peritoneum, plicate, port placement, postoperative pain, psoas, PTFE mesh, pubic bone, recurrence, reduction, repeat IPOM, reproducible, retromuscular, rIPOM, robot, robotic, robotic hernia surgery, robotic IPOM, robotic TAR, robotic transabdominal preperitoneal hernia repair, robotics, rTAPP, rTAR, seroma, SQ, Stoppa, subcutaneous, suprapubic incisional hernia, symptomatic incisional hernia, tacks, TAPP inguinal hernia repair, transfascial, triangulation, trocar, trocar site hernia, umbilical hernia, umbilicus, visceral, xiphoid process
Spectrum of MIS options–33 sec
Citations–1:41 Ann Surg 2003
Ergonomics–1:52
Citations–2:11 Hernia 2009
Citations–2:42 Hernia 2011
Port placement–2:55
Instrumentation–3:28
Tips & tricks–6:21
rTAPP repair video clip–8:05
Atypical hernias–8:55
Potential benefits of rTAPP approach–13:17
Algorithm for robotic hernia repair–14:29