Background Recent evidence indicates that a preoperative warm-up is a potentially useful
tool in facilitating performance. But what factors drive such improvements and how should a …

2 Background The use of robotics within surgery has always created ethical challenges
which permeate throughout many levels. The Intuitive Surgical da Vinci system was the first …

Background Surgical outcomes are traditionally evaluated by post-operative data such as
histopathology and morbidity. Although these outcomes are reported using accepted …

Objective: To investigate the frequency, nature, and severity of intraoperative adverse near
miss events within advanced laparoscopic surgery and report any associated clinical impact …

Background Confidential reporting systems play a key role in capturing information about
adverse surgical events. However, the value of these systems is limited if the reports that are …

Artificial intelligence & Computer vision have the potential to improve surgical training,
especially for minimally invasive surgery by analyzing intraoperative and simulation videos …

Background: In minimally invasive surgery (MIS), the natural relationship between hand and
eye is disrupted, ie surgeons typically control tools inserted through the patient's abdomen …

Background The literature has investigated barriers to reporting adverse events in surgery,
but with less emphasis on near misses. No attempt was made to categorise near misses by …

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to improve healthcare and patient safety and is
currently being adopted across various fields of medicine and healthcare. AI and in …

Ultrasound finds wide application in imaging and testing because ultrasound can penetrate
tissue and is benign. Gaseous microbubbles strongly scatter ultrasound and are therefore …