Initial experience with laparoscopic surgery: establishing a new surgical procedure.
*Education; *Laparoscopy/adverse effects; Adult; Continuing; General Surgery/*education; Humans; Internship and Residency; Medical; Middle Aged
Laparoscopic surgery impacted the surgical world in the United States in 1990. This report reviews the initial experience of 34 surgeons in 8 teaching hospitals of the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. There were 538 cases reported from May 1, 1990 to January 31, 1991. There was no mortality and the morbidity rate was 4.8%, including three bile duct injuries. The conversion rate to an open procedure was 6.1%. The criteria for credentialing, training, and resident and faculty education are included. The data reported by the Surgery Department of Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine are very similar to reported series from the current literature.
Sharp W V; Guyton D P; Crans C A; Abdu R A; Young J S; Dash S S; Kremer R M; Can A N
Journal of laparoendoscopic surgery
1992
1992-08
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1089/lps.1992.2.151" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1089/lps.1992.2.151</a>
ENDOSCOPIC COLONIC DECOMPRESSION OF TOXIC MEGACOLON, PLACEMENT OF COLONIC TUBE, AND STEROID COLONCLYSIS
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Banez A V; Yamanishi F; Crans C A
American Journal of Gastroenterology
1987
1987-07
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
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