Tissue stress from laparoscopic grasper use and bowel injury in humans: establishing intraoperative force boundaries.

Amanda Farah KhanMatthew Kenneth MacDonaldCatherine StreutkerCorwyn RowsellJames DrakeTeodor Grantcharov

Published in: BMJ surgery, interventions, & health technologies (2021)

A threshold was discovered that corresponded to both significant serosal thickness change and a positive histological trauma score rating. This "force limit" could be used in novel sensorized laparoscopic tools to avoid intraoperative tissue injury.

Keyphrases

robot assisted
single molecule
patients undergoing
optical coherence tomography
minimally invasive
stress induced