Application to Surgical Education and Practice

Application to Surgical Education and Practice

This document series was prepared for the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Division of Education by the Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures—Surgical (ASERNIP-S).

• Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy for Wound Healing
• Irreversible electroporation for tumor ablation
• Implantable gastric stimulation device for glycemic control and/or obesity management
• Stapled transanal rectal resection for obstructed defecation syndrome
• Allogeneic pancreatic islet cell transplantation for the management of type I diabetes mellitus
• Microwave ablation for hepatic metastases
• Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS) for Cholecystectomy
• Cryotherapy for Esophageal Cancer
• Robotic Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy (Nov 2008/Jan 2010)
• Robotic Colorectal Surgery (Nov 2008/Jan 2010)
• Sacral Nerve Stimulation for the Treatment of Refractory Constipation (Mar 2009/Jan 2010)
• Endoluminal Treatments for Obesity (Jun 2010)
• Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping for Colorectal Cancer (Jun 2010)
• Microwave Ablation for Lung Cancer (Nov 2010)
• Serial Transverse Enteroplasty (STEP) for Patients with Short Bowel Syndrome (SBS) (Dec 2010)
• Surgisis AFP Anal Fistula Plug (April 2011)
• Radiofrequency-assisted (Bloodless) Liver Resection (Jun 2011)