Endoscopic training of surgeons

Training safer orthopedic surgeons

1 department of orthopaedics, barts and the london, the royal london hospital, london; 2 MSk lab, imperial College london, Charing Cross hospital, fulham, london; 3 institute of population health, university of Manchester, Manchester; 4 postgraduate School of Surgery, london deanery, london, uK. Correspondence: [email protected] and [email protected] * These authors contributed equally. Submitte...

Endoscopic excision of a tympanic paraganglioma: Training the next generation of ear surgeons

Tympanic paragangliomas are uncommon vascular tumors of neural crest origin. Classically these lesions have been surgically managed via a transcanal or transmastoid approach using binocular microscopy. We describe a case in which a tympanic paraganglioma was removed via a transcanal approach, using the endoscope exclusively. Endoscopic ear surgery enhances visualization, helping to ensure compl...

General surgeons and endoscopy training.

Training trichiasis surgeons: ensuring quality

The World Health Organization (WHO) has set 2020 as the target for the global elimination of blinding trachoma as a public health problem. To achieve this goal, more than 7 million trachomatous trichiasis (TT) operations are needed.1 Poor post-operative outcomes are a significant barrier, as they reduce the number of patients who are willing to come for treatment. High-quality, highvolume surge...

Training non-surgeons to perform resuscitative thoracotomy

Professor Moritz Schiff, a distinguished 19th century physiologist, provided the first description of thoracotomy, open cardiac massage and aortic compression for the resuscitation of cardiac arrest in 1874 [1] . In 1896, Ludwig Rehn performed the first successful thoracotomy, pericardotomy and cardiac wound repair on a young man dying from cardiac tamponade following a right ventricle stab wou...