Hundreds of millions of operations are performed worldwide each year, and the rising
uptake in minimally invasive surgery has enabled fiber optic cameras and robots to become …

Poorly controlled postoperative pain is associated with increased morbidity, negatively
affects quality of life and functional recovery, and is a risk factor for persistent pain and …

Objective: The expansion of Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) has been exponential since
the introduction of laparoscopic surgery in the late 1980s. This shift in operative technique …

Objective To overcome limitations of open surgery artificial intelligence (AI) models by
curating the largest collection of annotated videos and to leverage this AI-ready data set to …

Abstract Background The Parkland Grading Scale for Cholecystitis (PGS) was developed as
an intraoperative grading scale to stratify gallbladder (GB) disease severity during …

Aims The identification of the anatomical components of the Calot's Triangle during
laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) might be challenging and its difficulty may increase …

Objective: To identify background characteristics and cognitive tests that may predict
surgical trainees' future technical performance, and therefore be used to supplement …

Importance In some centers, the presence of a senior general surgeon (SGS) is obligatory in
every procedure, including appendectomy, while in others it is not. There is a relative paucity …

Open procedures represent the dominant form of surgery worldwide. Artificial intelligence
(AI) has the potential to optimize surgical practice and improve patient outcomes, but efforts …

Background Laparoscopy, originally pioneered by gynecologists, was first adopted by
general surgeons in the late 1980s. Since then, laparoscopy has been adopted in the …