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BACKGROUND: The increasingly intense usage of technology applied to videosurgery and the advent of robotic platforms accelerated the use of virtual models in training surgical skills. AIM: To evaluate the performance of a general surgery department's residents in a video-simulated laparoscopic cholecystectomy in order to understand whether training with virtual reality is sufficient to provide the skills that are normally acquired in hands-on experience at the operating room. METHODS: An observational study with twenty-five first- and second-year general surgery residents. Each subject performed three video-laparoscopic cholecystectomies under supervision in a simulator. Only the best performance was evaluated in the study. Total number of complications and total procedure time were evaluated independently. The groups were defined according to total practice time (G1 and G2) and the year of residency (R1 and R2), each being analysed separately. RESULTS: Twenty-one residents finished the three practices, with four follow-up losses. Mean practice time was 33.5 hours. Lowering of the rate of lesions in important structures could be identified after a level of proficiency of 60%, which all participants obtained regardless of previous in vivo experience. No significant difference between the R1 and R2 groups was observed. CONCLUSION: Learning in groups R1 and R2 was equal, regardless of whether previous practice was predominantly in vivo (R2) or with virtual reality (R1). Therefore, it is possible to consider that skills obtained in virtual reality training are capable of equalising the proficiency of first- and second-year residents, being invaluable to increase patient safety and homogenise learning of basic surgical procedures.
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Colecistectomia Laparoscópica/educação , Internato e Residência/métodos , Corpo Clínico Hospitalar/educação , Realidade Virtual , Competência Clínica , Estudos Transversais , Humanos , Salas Cirúrgicas , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Estatísticas não Paramétricas , Fatores de TempoRESUMO
Introdução: A mamoplastia de aumento é o procedimento cirúrgico estético mais realizado nos EUA e o segundo no Brasil. Simastia é uma de suas possíveis complicações. Esta é definida como o mal posicionamento medial dos implantes mamários, que cruzam a linha média, com perda do sulco intermamário. Métodos: Trabalho tipo série de casos. Duas pacientes foram submetidas à correção de simastia pósmamoplastia de aumento. A via de acesso utilizada foi a incisão inframamária prévia. A correção do sulco intermamário foi realizada por escarificação das superfícies anterior e posterior da cápsula, associada a pontos de adesão com fio monofilamentar não absorvível (4 linhas com 6 pontos cada, compreendendo uma faixa vertical de aproximadamente 4 cm de largura na região pré-esternal). Em um dos casos o implante foi recolocado imediatamente e, no outro, em procedimento realizado 3 meses após. Resultados: Obtivemos um novo sulco intermamário satisfatório, com adequado resultado estético em ambos os casos. Não se observou recorrência após 9 e 11 meses de observação. Conclusões: A abordagem com suturas de adesão para a redefinição do sulco intermamário foi efetiva para o tratamento da simastia pós-mamoplastia de aumento.
Introduction: Augmentation mammoplasty is the most commonly performed esthetic surgical procedure in the United States and second in Brazil. Symmastia is one of its possible complications. This is defined as incorrect medial positioning of the breast implants, which cross the midline, losing the intermammary sulcus. Methods: Work type, series of cases. Two patients underwent symmastia repair after breast augmentation. The access route used was the previous inframammary incision. The repair of the intermammary sulcus was performed by scarification of the anterior and posterior capsule surfaces, associated with adhesion suture with non-absorbable monofilament threat (4 lines with 6 points each, comprising a vertical band of approximately 4 cm wide in the presternal region). In one of the cases, the implant was immediately replaced, and in the other, the procedure was done 3 months later. Results: In both cases, we obtained a new satisfactory intermammary sulcus, with proper esthetic result. No recurrence was observed on follow-ups at 9 and 11 months. Conclusions: The approach with adhesion sutures to redefine the intermammary sulcus was effective in the treatment of symmastia after breast augmentation.