The role of telementoring and telerobotic assistance in the provision of laparoscopic colorectal surgery in rural areas

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1389-1393

  Sebajang, H ^a,c   Trudeau, P ^b   Dougall, A ^a   Hegge, S ^a   McKinley, C ^a   Anvari, M ^c  

^a North Bay District Hospital   (Canada)

^b Department of Pediatrics and Clinical Research Unit   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Colorectal Surgery; Laparoscopy; Rural Healthcare; Telementoring; Telerobotics

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON INJURY; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COMMUNITY CARE; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; DEVICE; FEMALE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL EXPERT; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; REOPERATION; ROBOTICS; RURAL AREA; SIGMOIDECTOMY; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SURGEON; TEACHER; TELECONSULTATION; TELESURGERY;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLECTOMY; COLON; COLORECTAL SURGERY; HUMANS; ILEUM; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LACERATIONS; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MENTORS; MIDDLE AGED; PERINEUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; ROBOTICS; RURAL HEALTH; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 33749020580     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-005-0260-0     Document Type: Article

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