ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - Significant improvement to surgical simulation technology has been made in recent years.
ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - The impact of resident fatigue has led to significant changes in graduate medical education. Weekly and shift work-hour restrictions have been implemented to reduce errors and negative effects of fatigue. Prior work has shown negative effects of fatigue on surgical resident dexterity and surgical skill.
ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - Motor memory, established by proper tissue-tool interaction, is an important component of learning a psychomotor task.
ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - Bladder cancer is a common urological pathology. Surveillance and screening are important aspects. Xianming Ye and colleagues presented results in their development of an automated cystoscope to provide higher efficiency and 3D-user interface.
ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - The adage "see one, do one, teach one," has long been used to describe the paradigm of procedural training in medical education.
ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - Many new minimally invasive approaches to adrenalectomy have emerged in the last 20 years to complement conventional laparoscopy, including robotics, mini-laparoscopy, and laparoendoscopic single-site (LESS) surgery.
ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - At this podium session, Dr. Adam Callaway presented a study looking at national trends in adrenalectomy with regards to surgeon and surgical approach type, and factors impacting surgical approach.
ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - The efficacy of percutaneous interventions depends greatly on the accuracy of guidance. This is achieved most often using ultrasound, fluoroscopy, and/or computed tomography (CT). Here, Ukimura and colleagues report on the first application of a navigation system using GPS technology and preoperative CT imaging to facilitate percutaneous targeting.
ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - The treatment of small renal masses (SRM’s) and localized kidney cancer has undergone significant changes over the last 2 decades.
ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - Over the past 20 years there has been a shift in the surgical management of adrenal lesions from open to different minimally invasive techniques: multi-port conventional laparoscopy, robotics and laparo-endoscopic single-site (LESS) surgery.
