Concurrent optical and magnetic stimulation therapy in patients with lower extremity hard-to-heal wounds.

Objective: The treatment of patients with hard-to-heal wounds represents a major multidisciplinary challenge. Therefore, the development and clinical validation of new technologies remains extremely important. The novel application of concurrent optical and magnetic stimulation (COMS) offers a promising noninvasive approach to support physiological wound healing processes, especially in hard-to-heal wounds.

Results of robotic TAPP and conventional laparoscopic TAPP in an outpatient setting: a cohort study in Switzerland.

Purpose: Recently, robotic surgery has been increasingly performed in hernia surgery. Although feasibility and safety of robot-assisted inguinal hernia repair in an inpatient setting have been already shown, its role in outpatient hernia surgery has not yet been investigated. Thus, this study aimed to compare robot-assisted TAPP (r-TAPP) and conventional laparoscopic TAPP (l-TAPP) in an outpatient setting.