Rachel Wile

Jun 28, 2024 | digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu | Rachel Wile |Riley Brian |Natalie Rodriguez |Hueylan Chern

AbstractPre-operative simulated practice allows trainees to learn robotic surgery outside the operating room without risking patient safety. While simulation practice has shown efficacy, simulators are expensive and frequently inaccessible. Cruff (J Surg Educ 78(2): 379–381, 2021) described a low-cost simulation model to learn hand movements for robotic surgery. Our study evaluates whether practice with low-cost home simulation models can improve trainee performance on robotic surgery simulators.

May 23, 2023 | ctsnet.org | Rachel Wile

This is a case of a twenty-nine-year-old woman who initially presented to the emergency department with right-sided pleuritic chest pain, syncope, and leukocytosis. A CT angiogram revealed bilateral segmental and subsegmental lower lobe pulmonary emboli, as well as an indeterminate round posterior mediastinal mass measuring approximately 6 cm in its largest diameter and located just right of the midline, adjacent to the esophagus.