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Telecommunication allows interaction over distances to overcome logistical constraints. High band-width technology has allowed impressive feats of long-distance mentoring, proctoring, and remote procedures. Feasibility has been shown in controlling robotic arms or providing consultation between continents, between ship and land, and between air and land. However, the exact role of telecommunication in everyday medical practice remains unclear. Providing expert consultation where none is available is a clear need that telemedicine can fill. However, as minimally invasive surgical techniques rapidly grow, trainee work hours shorten, and demand for quality patient care heightens, a greater role for telesurgery, teleproctoring, and telementoring may come to the forefront. This will make defining, simulating, and studying the outcomes of telemedical applications an important area of discourse and research in the next several years.
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Tsuda, S. (2012). Teleproctoring in Surgery. In: Tichansky, MD, FACS, D., Morton, MD, MPH, J., Jones, D. (eds) The SAGES Manual of Quality, Outcomes and Patient Safety. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7901-8_52
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