Robotic Multivisceral Resection (RMVR) of the Pelvis for Locally Advanced Colorectal Carcinoma: Single Oncosurgical Center Experience.

Introduction: Locally advanced colorectal cancer management remains a challenge due to multiple reasons. Some of the major ones include the changes following the use of neoadjuvant radiotherapy and systemic anticancer treatment and previous abdominal surgery (including defunctioning stoma and related changes) and the proximity of structures close to the cancer. Robotic colorectal surgery for malignancy is rapidly evolving as a surgical technique in the management of colorectal cancers but its role in the management of locally advanced disease is not defined.

Main title - Socio-economic effects on informal caregivers of long-term hospitalized adult patients: A cross-sectional study.

Introduction: A significant proportion of patients are being treated at hospitals in the government sector in Sri Lanka. Informal caregivers play a major role in taking care of hospitalized surgical patients while facing physical, social, and psychological challenges.

Objective: To describe the socio-economic effects on informal caregivers of long-term hospitalized adult patients.

Endoscopic Sphincterotomy for Cholecysto-Choledocholithiasis Complicates Subsequent Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: A Retrospective Report From Sri Lanka.

Objective: Published literature so far has supported the fact that patients who underwent endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography and sphincterotomy (ERCPS) had a difficult perioperative course after subsequent laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Through a retrospective study, this original report mentions statistics in a Southeast Asian population comparing the effect on conversion to open surgery in patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy after ERCPS in a university hospital in Sri Lanka.

Methods: The results of 205 patients who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy and 85 patients who were converted to open surgery between 2016 and 2018 were analyzed to find out whether ERCPS is a risk factor for conversion or subsequent perioperative morbidity.

Hospital-Based Case Series Analysis of Road Traffic Trauma Patients in Sri Lanka.

Road traffic accidents claim many lives each year worldwide and cause significant disability among survivors. Resulting socioeconomic burden is severe in low- and middle-income countries. Global emphasis currently focuses on trauma education and prevention in addition to improving post-injury care.