The evolution and development of a robotic acute care surgery program.

Journal: The journal of trauma and acute care surgery
PMID: 37277903

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Acute care surgeons perform more than 850,000 operations annually on emergency general surgery patients in the United States. Emergency general surgery conditions are associated with a disproportionate excess of patient complications and death. Innovative quality improvement strategies have focused on addressing the excess morbidity and mortality among this patient population. Minimally invasive surgical techniques have been shown to reduce the burden experienced by emergency general surgery patients. Still, limited adoption by acute care surgeons has restricted this application's potential. An institutional robotics acute care surgery program provides acute care surgeons additional opportunities to expand minimally invasive surgery access to emergency general surgery patients irrespective of the time or day of the week.

Authors

  • Crisanto M Torres
    From the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (C.M.T.), Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Division of Acute Care Surgery (K.F., M.M., A.K., J.V.S.), Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland; Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (J.H.), University of Illinois-Chicago School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois; Department of Surgery (J.V.S.), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; and Department of Surgery (C.L.), Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Baltimore, Maryland.
  • Katherine Florecki
  • Jafar Haghshenas
  • Mariuxi Manukyan
  • Alistair Kent
  • Chuck Lawrence
  • Joseph V Sakran
    Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, The Johns Hopkins Department of Surgery, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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