Context Electrosurgery offers many unique advantages such as hemostasis and precise tissue cutting; however, there are a number of disadvantages including thermal injury and delayed wound healing. Aims The aim of the present study was to compare the outcomes of incisions made by Colorado® microdissection needle, electrosurgery tip, and surgical blade during periodontal surgery. Settings and...

Following the remarkable success of catheter based ablation techniques in curing regular supraventricular tachycardias, the attention of the electrophysiological community has turned upon atrial fibrillation based on the assumption that if surgical incisions with a knife can be duplicated by point by point lesions, a catheter based technique should provide results equivalent to the Maze procedu...

BACKGROUND Prevention of superficial surgical wound infections from drug-resistant bacteria such as methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) currently present major health care challenges. The majority of surgical site infections (SSI) are believed to be caused by airborne transmission of bacteria alighting onto the wound during surgical procedures. We have previously shown that far-u...

OBJECTIVES To investigate negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) to prevent wound dehiscence and infection after high-risk lower extremity trauma. DESIGN Prospective randomized multicenter clinical trial. SETTING Four Level I trauma centers. PATIENTS/PARTICIPANTS Blunt trauma patients with one of three high-risk fracture types (tibial plateau, pilon, calcaneus) requiring surgical stabiliz...

Vipul Patel, MD, Editor-in-Chief Welcome to the first issue of the Journal of Robotic Surgery, an exciting new quarterly publication dedicated to robotic applications in surgery. Surgery has traditionally been a specialty within the medical profession that has revolved around invasive procedures to treat various maladies. Initially, trauma induced by the therapeutic procedure was necessary and ...

Abdominal wall hernias are a familiar surgical problem. Millions of patients are affected each year, presenting most commonly with primary ventral, incisional, and inguinal hernias. Whether symptomatic or asymptomatic, hernias commonly cause pain or are aesthetically distressing to patients. These concerns, coupled with the risk of incarceration, are the most common reasons patients seek surgic...

Background: Surgical skin incisions in rhytidoplasty are very diverse compared to their original form approximately 100 years ago, when the operation was first performed. Many strategies have been proposed to improve this procedure so as to reduce scarring, anatomic distortion of the external ear, and hair loss. To diminish the inconveniences of periauricu lar scars and hair loss and in order t...

*1 Minimal invasiveness: In this article, this refers to surgical treatments that impose less impact on the human body. For example, surgical technique with smaller incisions would be less invasive, and could be expected to result in effects like a reduced burden on the patient, shortened hospital stay, and better post-operative recovery period. However, remote operation is based on limited inf...

Evolution of Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation T he success of catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation has continued to increase with the introduction of new technology, additional experience, and advances in our understanding of the targets of ablation. Nevertheless, patients with symptomatic drug refractory long-standing atrial fibrillation present a particular challenge for treatment...

AIm: To implement a surgical technique consisting of simplified incisions that allows all required procedures to be performed in one single operation for the purpose of reducing surgical stress to experimental animals. mAterIAl and methOds: Experimental animals (rats) were assigned to one of four groups: Group 0 was the (normal) control group, Group 1 consisted of rats that had an operation usi...