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Telementoring symposium introduction: Comparative Technology in Telementoring...
With Dr. Knut Augustad & Dr. Brian Duncan & Dr. Steven Rothenberg · hosted by Dr. Todd Ponsky
Chapter 1 of 2 · Fundamentals
Introduction
Welcome and symposium overview
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What the experts said
Telementoring is the idea that one expert surgeon can beam into another surgeon's room and help guide them through an operation.
There is debate about whether telementoring will be used in emergency situations or as part of education.
Karl Storz Endoscopy has been a leader in creating the technology used for telementoring.
49 countries are joining the symposium with over 200 hospitals participating.
Dr. Knut Augustad wrote one of the original papers on telementoring.
Dr. Brian Duncan, as past president of SAGES, made telementoring a top priority and catapulted it to the mainstream.
Mighty (Methodist Institute for Technology, Innovation and Education) is probably the largest surgical training center in the world.
Dr. Steven Rothenberg has been doing telementoring for well over 10 years using multiple different technologies.
Dr. Steven Rothenberg is one of the pioneers of pediatric minimally invasive surgery.