Editor's Note Arthroscopic surgery may not be the best option for patients over 60 years of age with hip arthritis, this study finds. Though most patients prefer minimally invasive hip arthroscopy rather than total hip replacement, researchers from the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York City, found that more than…

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Though minimally invasive surgery (MIS) is associated with lower postoperative complication rates, little is known about the cost savings resulting from the reduced rates. Researchers led by Martin Makary, MD, professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, designed a study to calculate the projected cost savings…

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Surgeons perform about 600,000 hysterectomies per year in the US, but less than 1% of these take place in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs). Richard Rosenfield, MD, is trying to change that. Before he founded Pearl Surgi-Center in Portland, Oregon, Dr Rosenfield performed outpatient hysterectomies at several local hospitals as an…

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Whether called SILS (single-incision laparoscopic surgery), LESS (laparoendoscopic single-site surgery), SPA (single-port access) surgery, or SAS (single-site access surgery), to name a few, these techniques have one thing in common—they are performed through a single site, usually the umbilicus. Single-site surgery is capturing interest, and surgeons are asking to try…

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