Transcript Title

Single Site Umbilical
Laparoscopic Surgery
(SSULS)
George W. Holcomb, III, M.D., MBA
Surgeon-in-Chief
Children’s Mercy Hospital
Kansas City, MO
Open
Surgery
Laparoscopic Surgery
1) Less discomfort
2) Reduced hospitalization
3) Faster return to routine
activities
4) Cosmesis
SSULS
Cosmesis, but less
risky c/w NOTES
Open Surgery
Laparoscopic
Surgery
NOTES
• Cosmesis, but
risks
Acronyms
• SILS
• SPA
(TM)
(TM)
-
-
Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery
Single Port Access
• SSULS -
Single Site Umbilical Laparoscopic
Surgery (CMH)
• SIPES –
Single Incision Pediatric Endosurgery (CH-A)
All use umbilicus as single site.
Umbilical Portals (U.S.)
SILS Port
(Covidien)
Tri - Port
(Olympus)
Umbilical Portals (U.S.)
SSULS Appendectomy
What Else Is Different?
Instruments are in-line and
parallel to each other
Ideally, instruments/telescope
should be different lengths
What Else Is Different?
Assistant/camera
holder stands
next to or behind
the surgeon
What Else Is Different?
Harder to operate
What Operations Are Being Done
Using This SSULS Approach?
• Appendectomy
• Pyloromyotomy (CH-A)
• Cholecystectomy
• Fundoplication (CH-A)
• Splenectomy
• Others
• Ileocecectomy
SSULS Appendectomy
SSULS Appendectomy
Please use this link if you experience problems viewing the video above.
Postoperative Appearance
SSULS Cholecystectomy
Please use this link if you experience problems viewing the video above.
SSULS Splenectomy
Please use this link if you experience problems viewing the video above.
SSULS Splenectomy
SSULS Ileocecectomy
•Intracorporeal dissection/mobilization
•Extracorporeal resection/anastomosis
CMH Experience
142 SSULS procedures:
• Appendectomy (103)
• Cholecystectomy (24)
• Splenectomy (2)
• Cholecystectomy/splenectomy (1)
• Ileocecectomy (8)
CAPS, 2010
Results
Procedure
Additional ports
Mean Op time
(min)
Mean LOS
(days)
Complications
Appendectomy
(103)
10
34+/-16
1
6
Cholecystectomy
(24)
2
73+/-28
1.5
0
Splenectomy
(2)
0
90+/- 6
1.5
0
Cholecystectomy
/splenectomy
(1)
0
116
1
0
Ileocecectomy
(8)
0
86+/-22
5
0
CAPS, 2010
SIPES
CH - ALABAMA
Appendectomy -
130
Pyloromyotomy -
32
Cholecystectomy -
32
Fundoplication -
6
Pull-through -
4
204
Pediatr Surg Int 2010
Conclusion
These series show that single site surgery is
feasible, and appears to be associated
with acceptable operating times
Conclusion
Disadvantages
• Compromised degrees of freedom and
triangulation
• Visualization limited by inline field of
view and motion of instruments
• More difficult for the surgeon
Questions
• Do the benefits outweigh the risks?
• What are the benefits?
• Is there improved cosmesis?
• Prospective evidence needed
• We are enrolling in 3 SSULS PRT’s

Appendectomy, Cholecystectomy, Splenectomy

Validated scar assessment tool
Prospective Randomized Trials
SSULS Appendectomy
Power
Analysis
10 Outcome
Variable
360 (324)
Infection
SSULS Cholecystectomy
60 (44)
Operative time
SSULS Splenectomy
30 ( 5)
Operative time
Other Variables Being Collected
• Pain
• Cost (hospital charges)
• Cosmesis (Validated Scar Assessment Tool)
www.centerforprospectiveclinicaltrials.com
www.cmhmis.com