Optimizing Laparoscopic Port Configuration, Instruments, and Suturing: Pearls for the Ob-Gyn Specialist - ST05

Saturday, May 20, 2023

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET

Location: Ballroom II

CME Credits 1

Sub Topic: Perform Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures

Michelle Louie, MD (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic
Phoenix, AZ, United States

Disclosure(s): Applied Medical: Consultant (Ongoing); Hologic Inc.: Consultant (Ongoing)
Asha McClurg, MD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina, Division of Minimally Invasive Gyn Surgery
University of North Carolina
Durham, NC, United States

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Session Description
This surgical tutorial will review adaptation of port configurations to patient pathology, habitus, and previous surgical history as well as the advantages and challenges to laparoscopic suturing from common port configurations for gynecologic surgeons, with attention to common cases encountered by the ob-gyn specialist with and without a surgical assistant.

Disclosure(s):

Michelle Louie, MD: Applied Medical: Consultant (Ongoing); Hologic Inc.: Consultant (Ongoing)

Asha McClurg, MD: No financial relationships to disclose