Laparoscopic colectomy: trends in implementation in Canada and globally

Marius Hoogerboord1, James Ellsmere1, Antonio Caycedo-Marulanda1

  • 1From the Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS (Hoogerboord, Ellsmere); the Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Sudbury, Ont. (Caycedo-Marulanda); the Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Brown); the Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. (Jayaraman, Urbach); the Department of Surgery, St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Toronto, Ont. (Jayaraman); the Department of Surgery, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ont. (Urbach); and the Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (Cleary).

Summary

Canada lags in adopting laparoscopic colectomy (LC), a minimally invasive surgery. This study identifies barriers and proposes strategies to increase LC use for better patient care and surgical advancement.

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