Video Analysis in Minimally Invasive Surgery (VAMIS)
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Video analysis of errors and technical performance within minimally invasive surgery
IRAS ID
309024
Contact name
Nader Francis
Contact email
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 5 months, 23 days
Research summary
Despite the high volumes, advanced minimally invasive surgery is non-standardised and variations often occur in surgical technique, performance, delivery, team communication, and surgical approach. Such variations can result in errors and complications that can potentially be avoided.
This project aims to analyse surgical phases (stage of the operation), skill and errors to anonymised, surgical video data through Medtronic's Touch Surgery™ Enterprise DS1 Computer which can capture video data anonymously in any minimally invasive (key hole) procedure in the operating room, allowing immediate, upload of data to a platform for immediate feedback and assessment to surgeons. We hypothesise that understanding technical performance and surgical processes, may reduce unwarranted variations, errors and near misses, and improve the performance of the entire surgical team that is ultimately hoped to enhance patient safety and outcomes. We plan to develop assessment tools with the hope to improve feedback, learning and ultimately surgeons’ performances. We plan to apply the latest methodology manual (OCHRA) and automated assessment (artificial intelligence). We also aim to validate these methods by correlating video "scores" of skill/errors to patient outcomes e.g. complications, cancer outcome.REC name
East Midlands - Leicester South Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
22/EM/0046
Date of REC Opinion
17 Mar 2022
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion