Solo hand surgery

Solo hand surgery.

Unassisted hand surgery is being undertaken by necessity for both elective and emergency cases, due to hospital resource restrictions. The authors outline the principles of local anesthesia, surgeon-controlled tourniquet techniques, and a number of new instruments which allow a surgeon to work in comfort and safety, unassisted. The traditional surgical instruments designed for the days when tra...

Wide-Angle Endoscope Interface for Solo Surgery

We have developed an wide-angle endoscope interface for solo surgery. The interface consists of the wide-angle endoscopic view and region of interest (ROI) view which is selected within the wide-angle view. The position of ROI could be determined by manipulating the surgical instrument with a web camera affixed. Features extracted from the web camera image by A-KAZE approach were tracked to est...

Wide Awake Hand Surgery

“Wide Awake Hand Surgery” is a small illustrated technical book written by Donald Lalonde, who is a professor at Dalhousie Medical School in New Brunswick, Canada. Dr. Lalonde has extensive expertise in hand surgery, with many years of experience using local anesthetics with epinephrine in surgery. This book is written in a simple, easy-to-understand manner; as the author states in the preface,...

Surgery of the Hand

Hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery.

HYPOTHESIS Hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery (HALS) has been proposed as a useful alternative to conventional open or laparoscopic surgery. However, most information is fragmented and comes from specific or selective indications. To assess the current situation of HALS, a general overview of the fields of application, results, and quality of the evidence of these results is necessary. DATA S...