Clinical Challenges in Minimally Invasive Surgery: Ergonomics
Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast
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Best Practices for Robotic Cases
The constant repetitive movement of the fingers is the injury that I got which is trigger finger of my left and middle finger from squeezing and clutching. For cases that require a bedside assist there are also issues about the robotic arms that can actually hurt your assistant if you're not careful. Can you take us through some best practices that you've come up with to sort of minimize the exposure to unnecessary strain doing as many robotic cases as you've done? Definitely. The nice thing about the robotic platform is the console is actually built for you so if you engage it correctly you can mitigate some of the issues.
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