During the last two decades, several techniques for minimally-invasive parathyroidectomy have been developed, including open approaches (open minimally-invasive parathyroidectomy - OMI P), minimally-invasive radio-guided parathyroidectomy (MI-RP), video-assisted parathyroidectomy (VAP), video-assisted parathyroidectomy through a lateral approach (VAP-LA) and purely endoscopic parathyroidectomy ...

Over the last decade, anesthesia procedures for low back pain have evolved significantly. Whereas blind epidural steroid injections were formerly the mainstay of procedural treatments, today, interventional pain physicians provide a variety of “minimally invasive,” targeted, and technically sophisticated treatment options for patients suffering with low back pain. As a mark of the increased imp...

Over the last decade, surgeons have experienced dramatic changes in operative procedures as a result of the development of remarkable new technological tools that have enabled significant advances in minimally invasive surgical techniques and instruments. These advances have led to the increased application of minimally invasive techniques for “nonconventional” procedures. The potential benefit...

BACKGROUND This study investigates the feasibility of performing advanced minimally invasive surgery (MIS) in a nonspecialized practice environment. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional survey of all community general surgeons currently practising in Ontario. RESULTS Few community surgeons perform a high volume (> 10 procedures per yr) of advanced MIS. Most (70%) believe it is important t...

BACKGROUND Kinematic design is a predominant phase in the design of robotic manipulators for minimally invasive surgery (MIS). However, an extensive overview of the kinematic design issues for MIS robots is not yet available to both mechanisms and robotics communities. METHODS Hundreds of archival reports and articles on robotic systems for MIS are reviewed and studied. In particular, the kin...

Activities related to medical innovation are accelerating and becoming increasingly important due to the demand for better and less invasive therapies, a rapidly aging population in the developed world and a globally larger population able to afford advanced medical care. Medical Innovation is occurring in the fields of pharmacy, diagnostics and therapeutic imaging, surgical products, intervent...

Many surgeons continue to actively pursue surgical approaches that are less invasive for their patients. This pursuit requires the surgeon to adapt to new instruments, techniques, technologies, knowledge bases, visual perspectives, and motor skills, among other changes. The premise of this paper is that surgeons adopting minimally invasive approaches are particularly obligated to maintain an ac...

This is a presentation of sharing endeavors at modifying and standardizing surgical procedures as well as establishing endoscopic surgical skill qualification in the field of pediatric surgery in Japan.

BACKGROUND Minimally invasive surgery might greatly benefit from the Information and Communications Technologies. The objective of this work is to determine the better approach to include those technologies, in particular an e-Learning platform, into an in-person training course. METHODS An online survey was sent to all participants in any of the laparoscopic training courses at Jesús Usón Mi...

The technique of a single-port laparoscopy was developed over the last years as an attempt to lower surgical aggression and improve the aesthetic results of the minimally invasive surgery. A new robotic platform used with the da Vinci® Robotic System Single-Site System® (Intuitive Surgical, Sunnyvale, California, United States) was recently launched on the global market and is still not documen...