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Surgery without scars > NOTES > NOSCAR > No longer far-fetched > Mouths and other orifices offer better pathway to internal organs > Minimizing risks > Lee Swanstrom > Oregon Clinic

Monday, April 21, 2008

Does the Notes approach have many potential advantages such as no external scars, cause less pain, and faster recovery?  Is NOSCAR surgery the natural evolution of endoscopic surgery? If a patient is offered a surgical option that would leave no scar, versus one with a little scar, which option would be chosen? IIP > Read on […]

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Natural Orifice Surgery NOS > Natural Orifice Surgery Consortium for Assessment and Research NOSCAR > Mark Talamini > University of California San Diego > School of Medicine > Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons SAGES 2008 > Natural-orifice gastric revisions > Covidien > Ethicon > USGI Medical

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

What is the value that the Natural Orifice Surgery NOS technique adds to a surgical procedure? Is NOSCAR surgery enthusiasm self-serving in order to keep the research going? Which high-volume procedure will be the incentive to keep the NOS development rolling?

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NOTES treatment of pancreatic lesion > Scar-free surgery > New operation > Doctors insert tools through natural orifices > Keeping skin intact > Intestinal external scars whatsoever > Gallbladders taken out through their mouths > Beth Israel Deaconess > Ram Chuttani > David Rattner > General and gastrointestinal surgery > Massachusetts General Hospital > Brigham and Women’s Hospital > Boston > Amount of additional risk > Patient’s perspective dramatically different > NOTES’s going to happen relatively fast

Monday, January 7, 2008

Does NOTES represent the holy grail in surgery - you go in for surgery and you can go to work the next day? Is it achievable and realistic? Was the success of the procedure at one point “history in the making ” even if the patient is only a pig?

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