This talk was presented at the 2018 SAGES Meeting/16th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery by Jacob Andrew Greenberg during the Postgraduate Course: Minimally Invasive Advances in Complex Hernia Repair on April 12 2018
Keyword(s): bactroban, bariatric surgery, BMI, body mass index, bowel abdomen, bowel injury, Carolinas Equation for Determining Associated Risks, CeDAR app, Cochrane Database, complex hernia repair, composite mesh, conversion rate, cotinine, CT scan, demographics, dictation, diet, double crown, end ileostomy, exercise, fat, fistula, HbA1c, hernia defect, Hibiclens, immunonutrition, laparoscopic approach, laparoscopic ventral hernia repair, laparoscopy, long-term follow-up, low calorie, LVHR, mesh, minimally invasive, MRSA, nicotine, NSQIP, nutrition, omentum, open hernia repair, operative note, physical exam, prehabilitation, primary repair, recurrent incisional hernia, robot, robotic surgeons, robotic surgery, smoking cessation, SSI, Surgical Endoscopy, surgical site infection, suture repair, tacks, viscera, weight loss, wound complications, wound morbidity
Hernia demographics–41 sec Ann Surg 2004
Why laparoscopy?–1:21 Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2011
Lap vs open–2:26 Ann Surg 2011
Why not robotic?–4:40
Recurrent incisional hernias–5:50
Prepare the patient–8:07 JACS 2015