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Technology Insight: telementoring and telesurgery in urology

Challacombe, Ben, Kavoussi, Louis, Patriciu, Alexandru, Stoianovici, Dan, Dasgupta, Prokar·2006·Nature Clinical Practice Urology
DOI 10.1038/ncpuro0626
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The rapid expansion of the field of minimally invasive surgery has been accompanied by a number of controversies. These novel surgical techniques offer benefits to the patient with regard to length of hospital stay, return to full activity, and cosmesis; also, they are often more cost-effective than open procedures. On the other hand, they are technically demanding, have a significant learning curve, and can be associated with high initial complication rates unless performed by experienced endoscopic surgeons. Telemedicine, which uses real-time video and information transfer, offers the potential to increase the availability of minimally invasive surgery through video-assisted surgery and through remote instruction. At present, remote communities, especially those within developed countries, can most immediately benefit from telesurgical approaches. Enthusiasm must be tempered by the issues of cost, security, surgeon liability and availability of the technology itself which have yet to be fully resolved. In this Review, the field of telemedicine, focusing specifically on telementoring and telesurgery, and its relevance to urology are discussed. From early experimental work to current clinical usage, the advantages of and problems in this evolving field are explored.

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Authors
Challacombe, B., Kavoussi, L., Patriciu, A., Stoianovici, D., & Dasgupta, P.
Affiliations
  • Guy's Hospital (GB)
  • Johns Hopkins University (US)
ORCID
Venue
Nature Clinical Practice Urology
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2006-11
Volume
3
Issue
11
Pages
611-617
ISSN
  • 1743-4270 (ISSN-L)
  • 1743-4289
DOI
10.1038/ncpuro0626
OpenAlex
W1983364333
Cited by
69
References
20
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 5 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 3
FWCI
4.00
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations
  • Nature Clinical Practice Urology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Surgery › Surgical Simulation and Training
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Teleoperation and Haptic Systems
Keywords
telementoring, telesurgery, telemedicine, urology, robotic surgery, minimally invasive surgery, video-assisted surgery, rural healthcare access, surgeon liability, learning curve
MeSH terms
Humans, Robotics, Urologic Surgical Procedures, Telecommunications, Urology, Telemedicine

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