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Richard Chudacoff, MD, FACOG
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From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of ainsron
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 1:54 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
Subject: Re: Laparoscopic chicken
?Tom Petty? Didn't know they drove race cars in the Super Bowl. I assume
you mean Tom Brady and you're right about the half time show, it was a bust
as far as I'm concerned and the commercials weren't much better.
Ronald E. Ainsworth, MD, FACOG
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From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Glen Elrod
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 10:06 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
Subject: Re: Laparoscopic chicken
I think it must have been half time and I'm not a Tom Petty fan, plus
without a wardrobe malfunction, what good is the half time show!
Besides, I'm not used to being coherent during the game, the last three
years its started at midnight for me.
Glen
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From: "rchudacoff@mylinuxisp.com" <rchudacoff@mylinuxisp.com>
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Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2008 5:17:21 PM
Subject: Re: Laparoscopic chicken
no super bowl in Alaska Glen?
Richard Chudacoff, MD, FACOG
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From: Glen Elrod <dr99645@yahoo.com>
Subj: Re: Laparoscopic chicken
Date: Sun Feb 3, 2008 5:12 pm
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I just looked up to make sure I wasn't imagining things and it from this
website at J&J it looks like the XCEL comes in bladeless, blunt and dilating
tip. Obviously, we are talking about the XCEL bladeless trocar.
http://www.jnjgateway.com/home.jhtml?loc=USENG
<http://www.jnjgateway.com/home.jhtml?loc=USENG&page=viewContent&contentId=0
9008b9880c605a5&parentId 008b98801b4d2a>
&page=viewContent&contentId 008b9880c605a5&parentId 008b98801b4d2a
The Visiport looks like it belongs to Autosuture, a division of US Surgical
according to this website.
http://www.autosuture.com/Autosuture/pagebuilder.aspx?topicID=31737
<http://www.autosuture.com/Autosuture/pagebuilder.aspx?topicID=31737&breadcr
umbs=0:122497,131955:0,39752:0> &breadcrumbs=0:122497,131955:0,39752:0
Glen
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From: Douglas Krell <dkrell@msn.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L <ob-gyn-l@mail.obgyn.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 2, 2008 2:12:11 PM
Subject: Re: Laparoscopic chicken
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Both Excel and Visiport are Ethicon products.
The Excel trocars have spring loaded blades.
The Visiport trocars have the little plastic wings at the tip, and the scope
goes
right inside of it so that you watch on monitor as the tip penetrates all
the layers.
I use the visiport all the time now.
I can attest to the fact that if you have a piece of bowel adherent right
under the umbilicus
The visiport gives you a nice view of the bowel lumen.
I agree with you Garry. It would take a major study powered to show the
difference
in injury rates. Perhaps you could study laparoscopies done on patients
with previous
midline incisions.
Right now, I tend to prefer the Visiport, but if the scrub tech opens Excels
by mistake, I don't throw 'em all out.
I usually open a Verres needle and proceed. Surgery is dangerous business,
but if it's done for a
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