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A state of the art review and categorization of multi-branched instruments for NOTES and SILS

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Abstract

Background

Since the advent of Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) and single incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS), a variety of multitasking platforms have been under development with the objective to allow for bimanual surgical tasks to be performed. These instruments show large differences in construction, enabled degrees of freedom (DOF), and control aspects.

Methods

Through a literature review, the absence of an in-depth analysis and structural comparison of these instruments in the literature is addressed. All the designed and prototyped multitasking platforms are identified and categorized with respect to their actively controlled DOF in their shafts and branches. Additionally, a graphical overview of patents, bench test experiments, and animal and/or human trials performed with each instrument is provided.

Results

The large range of instruments, various actuation strategies, and different direct and indirect control methods implemented in the instruments show that an optimal instrument configuration has not been found yet. Moreover, several questions remain unanswered with respect to which DOF are essential for bimanual tasks and which control methods are best suited for the control of these DOF.

Conclusions

Considering the complexity of the currently prototyped and tested instruments, future NOTES and SILS instrument development will potentially necessitate a reduction of the available DOF to minimize the control complexity, thereby allowing for single surgeon bimanual task execution.

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Notes

  1. Synonyms to SILS are Single-Port Access (SPA) surgery, Single-Site Laparoscopy (SSL), Single-Port Laparoscopic Surgery (SPLS), Single-Port Laparoscopy (SPL), and Laparo Endoscopic Single-Site (LESS) surgery.

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The research of Ewout A. Arkenbout and Paul Henselmans is supported by the Dutch Technology Foundation STW, which is a part of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), and which is partly funded by Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation (STW Project 12137). The research of Filip Jelínek was performed within the framework of CTMM, the Center for Translational Molecular Medicine, Project MUSIS (Grant 030-202).

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Arkenbout, E.A., Henselmans, P.W.J., Jelínek, F. et al. A state of the art review and categorization of multi-branched instruments for NOTES and SILS. Surg Endosc 29, 1281–1296 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00464-014-3816-z

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