Use of the ORBEYE Exoscope in General Surgery: The Advent of Video-Assisted Open Surgery.

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Department of General Surgery and Surgical Specialties, General and Mininvasive Oncological Surgical Unit, School of Medicine, 9307University Federico II of Naples, Italy.

Published: February 2021

Microsurgery has quickly become the "gold standard" approach for vascular surgical steps during neurosurgery. However, despite its advantages, the microscope has not been widely adopted in general surgery. A new 3D-surgical exoscope, the ORBEYE, has been developed and introduced to some surgical specialties. Herein, we present our preliminary experience with the ORBEYE exoscope as applied to a number of general surgical procedures. Throughout February 2020, 7 patients had undergone varying surgical procedures at our institute utilizing the ORBEYE in some of specific procedural steps where the surgeons felt that the surgery would benefit from more enhanced magnification. Upon completion, all the surgeons who had taken part in the procedure were asked if they had experienced any nausea, dizziness, or eyestrain during its use. The ORBEYE was employed in a number of surgical steps for the following procedures: throughout an inguinal hernia repair, during a duodeno-cephalo-pancreatectomy, for a subtotal gastrectomy, during para-aortic mass dissection, and during Ivor Lewis procedure. None of the surgeons involved in the procedures reported experiencing any nausea, dizziness nor eyestrain, nor any other physical discomforts. To the best of our knowledge, ours is the very first report on the employment of the ORBEYE exoscope during general surgery. Our experience assures us that this highly ergonomic technology with its high-resolution 4K 3D optical system allows the surgeon to perform safe and precise surgery in several dedicated steps in which adequate magnification is required with no adverse effects to the surgeon or the surgical procedure itself.

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