Publications by authors named "D Mamone"
Introduction: In patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, pulsed-field ablation has been developed as an alternative to thermal ablation. Three devices are currently available: Farawave by Boston, PulseSelect by Medtronic, and Varipulse by Johnson. In the present report, we studied the outcomes at 12 months of these three devices using indirect comparisons.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction Medical devices (MDs) make up an important share of total in-hospital expenditure. At the level of individual patients, this share is represented by the ratio of the cost of MD incurred by the patient vs. the total cost of in-hospital care for the same patient.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRobot-assisted pancreatoduodenectomy with the da Vinci Xi: can the costs of advanced technology be offset by clinical advantages? A case-matched cost analysis versus open approach.
Surg Endosc
June 2022
Article Synopsis
- Robot-assisted pancreatoduodenectomy (RPD) has advantages over open pancreatoduodenectomy (OPD), but a cost analysis comparing the two methods has been lacking.
- A study compared 20 RPD procedures and 40 OPD procedures, highlighting differences in cost-related factors like hospital stay duration and consumable costs.
- Findings show RPD has higher upfront material costs but significantly reduces hospital stay duration, leading to overall comparable variable costs between the two surgical techniques.
Background: Few studies have reported a structured cost analysis of robotic distal pancreatectomy (RDP), and none have compared the relative costs between the robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) and the direct manual laparoscopy (DML) in this setting. The aim of the present study is to address this issue by comparing surgical outcomes and costs of RDP and laparoscopic distal pancreatectomies (LDP).
Methods: Eighty-eight RDP and 47 LDP performed between January 2008 and January 2020 were retrospectively analyzed.