Clinical Challenges in Minimally Invasive Surgery: Ergonomics
Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast
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Robot Surgery: The Silver Bullet for Surgeon Ergonomics
Dr. Sautrula mentioned earlier about numbness in the thumb that's actually something I lost feeling in my thumb for about six weeks as the MIS fellow until I learned you have to change the grip on your instrument especially when you're not static hold for a long time. The same thing happened to me during fellowship hyperhypocham nerve nerve palsy. So I guess just for the sake of time here let's move on to robot assisted surgery. Dr. White if the hype is to be believed robot surgery is the silver bullet for surgeon ergonomics and I think you probably do more robotic cases than any surgeon I've ever metIs it hype or is there something to it?
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