Training Pathway for a Novel Smart Surgical System (FLEXDEX)

This video and associated publication in Colorectal Disease journal details the pathway for ensuring competency and enabling proficiency in the use of new instrumentation for human operations. Here the focus is on FLEXDEX a smart surgical system that via a gimbal and wired technology converts the natural movements of the operating surgeons hand, wrist and forearm into precise effects of the instrument tip inside the patients- it acts like a robot but in a single use instrument priced comparatively to other laparoscopic instruments.

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Authors: Faraz Khan (1,2), Ed Murphy(1), Ronan Cahill(1,2).

(1) Department of Surgery, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. &
(2) UCD Centre for Precision Surgery, Section of Surgery, School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Ireland.

Email: ronan.cahill@ucd.ie

Video associated with Colorectal Disease Journal (published by Wiley and associated with the Association of Coloproctology Great Britain and Ireland (ACPGBI), European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP) and Spanish Society of Coloproctology (SSC). The videos on this channel are there for illustrative purposes only and the ideas, approaches and procedures shown in them are in no way recommended or endorsed by Colorectal Disease, its owner, editors or publisher.

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