Robotic-assisted surgery enhances the learning curve while maintaining quality outcomes in sleeve gastrectomy: a preliminary, multicenter study

Autor: Alfons Pomp, Cheguevara Afaneh, Gregory Dakin, Rachel At, Mariana Vigiola-Cruz, Francesca Dimou, Omar Bellorin
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Surgical Endoscopy. 35:1970-1975
ISSN: 1432-2218
0930-2794
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-020-08228-6
Popis: The frequency of robotic-assisted bariatric surgery has been on the rise. An increasing number of fellowship programs have adopted robotic surgery as part of the curriculum. Our aim was to compare technical efficiency of a surgeon during the first year of practice after completing an advanced minimally invasive fellowship with a mentor surgeon. A systematic review of a prospectively maintained database was performed of consecutive patients undergoing robotic-assisted sleeve gastrectomy between 2015 and 2019 at a tertiary-care bariatric center (mentor group) and between 2018 and 2019 at a semi-academic community-based bariatric program (mentee 1 group) and 2019–2020 at a tertiary-care academic center (mentee 2 group). 257 patients in the mentor group, 45 patients in the mentee 1 group, and 11 patients in the mentee 2 group were included. The mentee operative times during the first year in practice were significantly faster than the mentor’s times in the first three (mentee 1 group) and two (mentee 2 group) years (P
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