title: Device-tissue interactions: a collaborative communications system.
abstract: Medical devices, including surgical staplers, energy-based devices, and access enabling devices, are used routinely today in the majority of surgical procedures. Although these technically advanced devices have proved to be of immense benefit to both surgeons and patients, their rapid development and continuous improvement have had the unintended consequence of creating a knowledge gap for surgeons due to a lack of adequate training and educational programs. Thus, there is an unmet need in the surgical community to collect existing data on device-tissue interactions and subsequently develop research and educational programs to fill this gap in surgical training. Gathering data and developing these new programs will require collaboration between doctors, engineers, and scientists, from both clinical practice and industry. This paper presents a communications system to enable this unique collaboration that can potentially result in significantly improved patient care.
authors.affiliation: Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc, (EC), 4545 Creek Road, Cincinnati, OH, 45242, USA. EChekan@its.jnj.com.
authors.forename: Edward
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Chekan
authors.forename: Richard L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Whelan
authors.forename: Alexander H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Feng
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