Evaluation of a New Mobile Virtual Reality Setup to Alter Pain Perception: Pilot Development and Usability Study in Healthy Participants.

Background: Chronic pain presents a significant treatment challenge, often leading to frustration for both patients and therapists due to the limitations of traditional methods. Research has shown that synchronous visuo-tactile stimulation, as used in the rubber hand experiment, can induce a sense of ownership over a fake body part and reduces pain perception when ownership of the fake body part is reported. The effect of the rubber hand experiment can be extended to the full body, for example, during the full-body illusion, using both visuo-tactile and cardiovisual signals.

A Systematic Review of the Use of Surgical Checklists in Transurethral Resection of Bladder Tumour.

Context: Surgical checklists have previously been shown to improve surgical quality and patient outcomes. However, their use in transurethral resection of bladder tumour (TURBT), one of the most commonly performed urological procedures, has yet to be explored in depth.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of surgical checklist implementation in TURBT on documentation quality, specimen quality, and oncological outcomes according to the existing literature.

Neuropathological features of pediatric laryngomalacia.

Objective: Laryngomalacia is the most common pediatric laryngeal anomaly. The pathophysiology of laryngomalacia is not well defined; the leading hypothesis suggests weak laryngeal tone and neuromuscular discoordination. Only a few studies explored the histopathology of the laryngeal submucosal nerves, with reported nerve hypertrophy.

Opinion, uptake and current practice of robot-assisted upper gastrointestinal and oesophagogastric surgery in the UK: AUGIS national survey results.

Introduction: The uptake of upper gastrointestinal (GI) robotic surgery in the United Kingdom (UK), and Europe more widely, is expanding rapidly. This study aims to present a current snapshot of the practice and opinions of the upper GI community with reference to robotic surgery, with an emphasis on tertiary cancer (oesophagogastric) resection centres.

Methods: An electronic survey was circulated to the UK upper GI surgical community via national mailing lists, social media and at an open-invitation conference on robotic upper GI surgery in January 2023.