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.

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Crew Resource Management training (the model for medical team training) has been mandatory for commercial aviation since 1991. 7 Although most surgeons consider themselves to be good …

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 …

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 …

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The iliac vessels may be protected by the surgeon’s left index finger or a narrow S retractor as the innermost suture is placed. The sutures are continued downward until the region of the pubic spine is …

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The surgeon determines the location of the appendix, chiefly from the point of maximum tenderness by physical examination, and makes the incision best adapted for exposing this particular area.

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