<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Port creation is one of the most common complications associated in endoscopic procedures. The focus of our study was to establish a reproducible method of determining the torque profile generated during body cavity entry using a Threaded Visual Cannula (TVC). A TVC was evaluated on 32 samples of foam media. A torque profile was generated by measuring the torque required to cannulate the foam media. Penetration of the media was captured by a digital imaging system. The magnitude of torque to required cannulate the foam media was dictated by the amount of friction present between the foam and the external threads of the TVC. Furthermore, the magnitude of friction was dictated by the material properties of the individual media. A reproducible method of measuring entry torque during body cavity entry was established.</p></abstract>

Port creation is one of the most common complications associated in endoscopic procedures. The focus of our study was to establish a reproducible method of determining the torque profile generated during body cavity entry using a Threaded Visual Cannula (TVC). A TVC was evaluated on 32 samples of foam media. A torque profile was generated by measuring the torque required to cannulate the foam media. Penetration of the media was captured by a digital imaging system. The magnitude of torque to required cannulate the foam media was dictated by the amount of friction present between the foam and the external threads of the TVC. Furthermore, the magnitude of friction was dictated by the material properties of the individual media. A reproducible method of measuring entry torque during body cavity entry was established.

Torque Measurement During Body Cavity Entry Using A Threaded Visual Cannula

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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Port creation is one of the most common complications associated in endoscopic procedures. The focus of our study was to establish a reproducible method of...

Torque Measurement During Body Cavity Entry Using A Threaded Visual Cannula

Published Online: Dec 27, 2017

Page range: 537 - 552

Received: Mar 25, 2014

Accepted: Jun 01, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-669

Keywords
Torque measurement, laparoscopic surgery, port creation

© 2014 A. Bakirtzian et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Torque Measurement During Body Cavity Entry Using A Threaded Visual Cannula

Published Online: Dec 27, 2017

Page range: 537 - 552

Received: Mar 25, 2014

Accepted: Jun 01, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-669

KeywordsTorque measurement, laparoscopic surgery, port creation

© 2014 A. Bakirtzian et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Torque measurement, laparoscopic surgery, port creation