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Laparoscopic Appendectomy Figure 20–1: The patient is supine with both arms tucked at the sides. The operating surgeon and assistant stand on the patient's left. A Foley catheter is placed to decompress …

Robotic surgery requires the primary surgeon to step outside the sterile field and relinquish control to the team at the patient’s bedside. As a result, having a well-trained assistant becomes critical.

The continued success of pediatric surgery will require a commitment to clinical care excellence that assures institutional and individual surgeon competence, optimal education, research that is …

Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti, Enrico Benedetti, Alberto Mangano Gateways in Vascular Surgery: An Operative Atlas Timur P. Sarac, Vikram S. Kashyap The General Surgeon’s Guide to Passing the …

The surgeon should position table-mounted bars at the level of the axilla on the left or right side of the patient to allow for self-retaining retractor affixation. A small roll or bump is placed at the level of the …

The choice of site may be based on the surgeon’s preference or the presence of a previous regional incision that may have adhesions. The subcutaneous fat and tissues are bluntly dissected apart …

The primary surgeon stands on the patient's left side, while the assistant stands on the patient's right. General anesthesia is used. A small periumbilical incision is made, with the location and orientation …

Asepsis, hemostasis, and gentleness to tissues are the bases of the surgeon’s art. Nevertheless, recent decades have shown a shift in emphasis from the attainment of technical skill to the search for new …