Robotic surgery for thoracic surgery
SummaryIndications for the use of RATS vary between the facilities but correspond as far as possible to other minimally invasive surgical findings. In general, RATS is currently a therapeutic option for the management of early-stage NSCLC without mediastinal lymph node involvement in oncological surgery, although depending on the planned intervention and the surgical facility, hilar lymph node involvement may be accepted (Source: European Surgery)
Source: European Surgery - November 3, 2020 Category: Surgery Source Type: research
Robotic resection for esophageal cancer
ConclusionsAvailable studies suggest that RAMIE is associated with benefits regarding length of stay, clinical outcomes, and quality of life —if patients are treated in an experienced center with a standardized technique for robotic esophagectomy—making it a potentially beneficial tool in the treatment of esophageal cancer. However, center-wide standardization and prospective data collection will be a necessity to prove superiorit y of robotic esophagectomy. (Source: European Surgery)
Source: European Surgery - October 29, 2020 Category: Surgery Source Type: research
Quality of colon resection results in Upper Austria based on a prospective database
ConclusionThe data for Upper Austrian hospitals largely correspond to the results in the literature. Comparisons are difficult to make since both the number of operations performed in a hospital and the number of procedures per surgeon has an impact on the outcome and, in addition, the patient populations are different. (Source: European Surgery)
Source: European Surgery - October 29, 2020 Category: Surgery Source Type: research
Refractory hypoglycemia associated with giant solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura (Doege –Potter syndrome)
ConclusionDoege –Potter syndrome is a life-threatening condition associated with severely impaired quality of life. Prompt identification and surgical treatment are mandatory. (Source: European Surgery)
Source: European Surgery - October 22, 2020 Category: Surgery Source Type: research
Outpatient before inpatient —the good, the bad and the ugly
ConclusionWhereas about half of the participants expect a reduction in health care costs, about two thirds fear that more generous diagnoses and not necessarily indispensable or possibly unnecessarily extended interventions could be performed due to the new regulation demanding outpatient care for said surgical interventions. (Source: European Surgery)
Source: European Surgery - October 20, 2020 Category: Surgery Source Type: research
