CIMIT makes largest-ever grant for scar-free surgery
The Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology has awarded a three-year, $2.1 million grant to a group of area doctors working on a new kind of minimally invasive surgery.
Called NOTES, short for natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery, the technique passes surgical tools through the mouth, anus, or vagina to reach organs in the abdomen, thorax, or pelvis. It leaves no scars, promises less pain, and offers a smaller chance of infection, its proponents say, according to this Globe story last month.
Dr. David Rattner of Massachusetts General Hospital will lead the NOTES team, which includes Dr. William Brugge, also of Mass. General, Dr. Christopher Thompson of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Dr. Richard Rothstein of Dartmouth Medical School.
The NOTES initiative is the largest grant ever made by CIMIT, a consortium of Boston-area teaching hospitals and engineering schools.
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id rather go through 3 layers of fascia then 1 layer of esophageal smooth muscle which is about a few mm away from pleura when the benefit is to prevent a scar about the size of a bug bite and the risk is esoph. rupture, spasm or pneumothorax.
mebbe medicine should look into evidence based first before the technology gets out of control.