Guest Editors
Karishma Kodia
University of Miami
Karishma Kodia received her medical degree from Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University before attending a residency at the University of Miami / Jackson Memorial Hospital in General Surgery. She has significant experience in clinical outcomes research and has published over 15 peer-reviewed articles in addition to various oral presentations at national conferences. She has published extensively within the thoracic surgery literature regarding enhanced recovery after surgery protocols. Her clinical interests include minimally invasive and robotic surgery platforms and recovery pathways that optimize postoperative patient care.
Carlos Theodore Huerta
University of Miami
Carlos Theodore Huerta received his medical degree from the University of Kentucky before attending a residency at the University of Miami / Jackson Memorial Hospital in General Surgery. He has significant experience in clinical outcomes (7 years) and basic science (5 years) research. He has published more than 20 peer-reviewed articles and numerous oral presentations at national and international conferences. He has been elected to multiple committees within his institution and national organizations, such as the Association for Academic Surgery and the American Pediatric Surgical Association. He is currently completing a Postdoctoral Fellowship in a basic science laboratory at the University of Miami, investigating stem cell-based therapeutics to augment ischemic wound healing. His clinical research interests include the full breadth of pediatric surgical diseases and minimally invasive surgery.
Collection Overview
The advent of robotic surgery in the early 2000s revolutionized the way surgery is performed across multiple specialties, including urology, colorectal, general, cardiothoracic, surgical oncology, orthopedic, and gynecology surgical services. Benefits of robotic technology include seven degrees of freedom, improved agility and range of motion, reduction in tremors, and enhanced high-definition visualization. As with all new technology, a significant learning curve is associated with robotic surgery to develop individual surgeon proficiency. The widespread adoption of robotic-assisted surgery can be challenging to disseminate widely outside competitive healthcare markets and high-volume centers. For surgeons with limited robotic experience, critical components of success include setup, port placement, understanding visual haptics, creating a dedicated mechanical team, and the ability to troubleshoot issues both intraoperatively and specific to the robotic platform.
We aim to create a multidisciplinary collective of robot-assisted videos for standard surgical procedures across various specialties (e.g., sigmoid colectomy, cholecystectomy, partial nephrectomy, thymectomy, myomectomy, etc.) that serve as a “how-to” for surgeons who are early in their robotic career. This Methods Collection focuses on pearls and pitfalls for the surgeon navigating the use of the robot early in their career. Our goal is to create a community of surgeons and a compilation of surgical videos for standard techniques to serve as a standardized source of knowledge and practice.
Articles
Abstracts
Augmented reality navigation system for kinematically aligned total knee arthroplasty
Alexander Nedopil*1
1Orthopädische Klinik König-Ludwig-Haus
Robotic Organ-Preserving Resection of a Large Pancreatic Lymphatic Malformation in an 18-Year-Old Patient: A Step-by-Step Surgical Technique
Johannes Klose*1
1University Hospital Halle