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Clinical Challenges in Minimally Invasive Surgery: Ergonomics

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

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The Importance of Ergonomics in Laparoscopic Surgery

Laparoscopic surgery disassociates a surgeon's operative field in their visual field, degrades haptics and limits to just four degrees of freedom while operating. Most common physical complaint related to laparoscopic surgery is neck and back pain but shoulder and elbow pain and upper extremity neuropathy also occur in the hands especially. Like open surgery, mitigating these injuries begins well before incision with the operating room setup.

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