Single incision laparoscopic surgery - is it time for laboratory skills training?

Introduction: With the introduction of new surgical equipment, there is always the need for new, more advanced training. The authors try to answer whether the use of the newest generation tools has an impact on achieving better results in single incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) technique during the exercises in the surgical skills laboratory.

Material And Methods: There were 51 participants in the study: 44 'novices' and 7 'experts'.

New comprehensive surgical curriculum of pre-graduate surgical education.

Introduction: Surgical education has become one of the most important directions in modern surgery evolution. To meet growing need for appropriate training in laparoscopic and, even more importantly, classic surgical skills, a curriculum involving contemporary tuition methods is needed. Advanced, structuralised training, which includes advanced technologies like virtual reality training, video coaching and motivative aspects of competition, seems to be important for an adequate education programme.

Structuralized box-trainer laparoscopic training significantly improves performance in complex virtual reality laparoscopic tasks.

Introduction: In the era of flowering minimally invasive surgical techniques there is a need for new methods of teaching surgery and supervision of progress in skills and expertise. Virtual and physical box-trainers seem especially fit for this purpose, and allow for improvement of proficiency required in laparoscopic surgery.

Material And Methods: The study included 34 students who completed the authors' laparoscopic training on physical train-boxes.

Biliary versus alcohol-related infected pancreatic necrosis: similarities and differences in the follow-up.

Objectives: Infected pancreatic necrosis (IPN) is a serious complication of acute pancreatitis. Data concerning survivors' quality of life and pancreatic functions are scarce. Follow-up of the patients with alcohol and biliary etiology of IPN treated with open necrosectomy was performed.

Does the septic shock interfere experimental acute pancreatitis in rats?

Introduction: Acute pancreatitis is a disease involving pro-inflammatory mediators. Two complex and multifactorial pathogenetic ways lead to edematous or necrotizing pancreatitis. The course of the disease is thought to be the consequence of an acute inflammatory response.