Introduction. The goal of this work is to determine the force required to break sutures during robotic surgery. The growing popularity of robotic surgery as an option for gastrointestinal procedures has introduced a need for the availability of tensile strength data for commonly used sutures. Intraoperative suture failures result in surgical delays while post-operative failures could require revisions or create major complications for the patient. Availability of tensile strength data for suture
Introduction
Laparoscopic repair of hiatal and/or paraesophageal hernias is the standard method of treatment in most modern institutions. While the laparoscopic method has proven to have several important advantages over the open method, including decreased morbidity and mortality, less pain postoperatively, and shorter recovery time, recurrence rates after laparoscopic repair have been disappointing. The surgical robot has become more widely available and is being used to perform a wide range
Background: Laparoendoscopic single incision surgery is technically and ergonomically challenging. Robotic surgery has the potential of overcoming these challenges of laparoscopic single site surgery.
Hypothesis: SSRC can be performed safely with a short learning curve. We present a large series of SSRC by a single surgeon in a community hospital.
Patients and Methods: We performed a retrospective review of a prospective database of a single surgeon’s experience with consecutive patients, pres
INTRODUCTION – Equal access to novel surgical technologies remains a policy concern as hospitals adopt robotic surgery with increasing prevalence. Due to high upfront capital costs and periodic maintenance fees, robotic surgery would theoretically be regarded as a less practical option in a hospital system serving the economically disadvantaged. We examined the use of robotic surgery in a 547 bed county hospital and sought to determine whether socioeconomic factors influence access to robotic su
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Minimally invasive surgery for complex biliary reconstructions is a technical difficult procedure. Though the initial report of laparoscopic bile duct stricture repair emanated from our centre, the difficulty in performing a hepaticojejunostomy high-up in the liver hilum prevented its widespread adoption.The shortcomings of conventional laparoscopic surgery are overcome by the availability of advanced robotic surgical system. We present our experience with the use of robot assiste