Experience Is Not Proficiency: Measuring what surgeons actually do | Show Me The Evidence E10
In this episode, Professor Anthony G. Gallagher is joined by Dr Rui Farinha, a senior consultant urologist in Lisbon who has completed fellowships in Spain, Germany and Belgium in laparoscopic and robotic surgery, and who trained with Professor Alexandre Mottrie in Aalst and at Orsi Academy in Belgium. The two met at Orsi in 2019.
The conversation begins with a practical question. Robots are expensive, so what do they actually give the surgeon? Rui sets out the case carefully: tremor filtering and motion scaling for precision, wristed instruments for dexterity in tight anatomy such as the…
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