Single incision laparoscopic surgery from a caribbean perspective

Shamir O Cawich; Patrick FaSiOen; Yardesh Singh; Wesley Francis; Sanjib K Mohanty; Vijay Naraynsingh; Giovanni Dapri

doi:10.1016/j.ijsu.2019.05.009

Single incision laparoscopic surgery from a caribbean perspective

Int J Surg. 2019 Dec:72S:13-18. doi: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2019.05.009. Epub 2019 May 24.

Authors

Shamir O Cawich¹, Patrick FaSiOen², Yardesh Singh³, Wesley Francis⁴, Sanjib K Mohanty⁵, Vijay Naraynsingh³, Giovanni Dapri⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. Electronic address: socawich@hotmail.com.
² Department of Surgery, St Elizabeth Hospital, Dutch Caribbean, Curacao.
³ Department of Surgery, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Princess Margaret Hosptial, Nassau, Bahamas.
⁵ Department of Surgery, Cayman Islands Hospital, West Indies, Cayman Islands.
⁶ Department of Surgery, Saint Pierre University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.

PMID: 31132463
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2019.05.009

Abstract

Conventional laparoscopy with multiple ports has recently gained a strong foothold in the Caribbean, but single incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) has lagged behind. In this paper, we compare the data on SILS and conventional multi-port laparoscopy in the English-speaking Caribbean.

Keywords: Caribbean; Laparoscopy; SILS; Trinidad.

MeSH terms

Caribbean Region
Health Care Costs
Humans
Laparoscopy / economics
Laparoscopy / methods*