In the old days, one could refine surgical technique with just sutures and a board of styrofoam. Now, in order to learn laparoscopy, interns and residents have to use super-expensive simulators to which most hospitals don’t even have access. So even though laparoscopy is known to offer many advantages over open procedures, many surgeons still […]
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The problem with laparoscopic training
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Christopher Kelly
April 23rd, 2008, at 12:49pm · No Comments
Tags: Laparoscopy Equipment · Laparoscopy Training · Technologies and devices · Uncategorized
SAGES Report: Everyone’s an endoscopist now
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Christopher Kelly
April 17th, 2008, at 11:30am · No Comments
At SAGES we got the distinct impression that every surgical procedure known to man has a one-way ticket to NOTESville. If that’s the case, then surgeons will need to get a lot more comfortable manipulating endoscopes, as their unintuitive controls tend to frighten novices. We stopped over at the Simbionix booth to check out their GI […]
Tags: Bariatric surgery · Colorectal surgery · Endoscopes · General surgery · Laparoscopy Training
