VNOTES – Our Latest Paper, is now online free!

The Marchand Institute’s latest publication, “Systematic review and meta-analysis of vaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery vs laparoscopic hysterectomy” has just been posted in Pubmed today, and the full text is available online for free.  You can see the full text either at Pubmed Central at this link, or at Elsevier’s website for the journal…

Major Marchand Institute Study in Green Journal Today

The Marchand Institute’s major study entitled “Vaginal Hysterectomy Compared With Laparoscopic Hysterectomy in Benign Gynecologic Conditions: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis” appears online today in the Green Journal (Obstetrics & Gynecology). This is the largest study to date comparing the advantages and safety of vaginal hysterectomy versus laparoscopic, and has some very interesting findings! Click…

FDA Issues Clarification on Black Box Warning on Power Morcellation Devices

In an official email to the Marchand Institute for Minimally Invasive Surgery, a major research institute in the field of minimally invasive gynecologic surgery and tissue morcellation, the FDA clarified it’s position on the “Black Box” warning currently placed on laparoscopic surgical power morcellation devices (LPM’s) in the United States. Because LPM’s have the potential…

Two Marchand Institute Research Papers Selected for Oral Presentation at AAGL 2022

We are delighted to announce that two of our research papers, “Meta-Analysis of Veress Needle Entry Versus Direct Trocar Entry in Gynecologic Surgery” and “Meta-Analysis Of Laparoscopic Radical Hysterectomy Vs. Robotic Assisted Radical Hysterectomy For Early Stage Cervical Cancer” have been accepted for oral presentation at the AAGL Global Congress in Aurora, Colorado in December…

New Article Comparing Veress Needle Usage to Direct Trocar Entry

Our newest article gets back to the basics of MIGS with “Systematic review and meta-analysis of Veress needle entry versus direct trocar entry in gynecologic surgery,” which is now available free online at BMJ Surgery, Intervention and Health Technologies.  You can see the full article here:  https://sit.bmj.com/content/4/1/e000121 or read it on the government’s PubMed site…

Marchand Institute’s Breakthrough Paper on Intra-Abdominal Marcaine Published in the Journal of Pain Research

The Marchand Institute is pleased to announce that their breakthrough paper, “A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Intraperitoneal Bupivacaine in Laparoscopic Gynecologic Surgery” has been published in this month’s Journal of Pain Research. We are extremely excited about this new paper and the strong evidence it presents for the instillation of bupivacaine in the abdominal…

Marchand Institute’s Paper on the Use of Bupivacaine in Gynecologic Surgery Published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Canada

We are very pleased to report that our latest paper, “A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Intraoperative Bupivacaine in Gynaecologic Surgery After 24 Hours or 9 Half-lives” has been published in the prestigious Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Canada, and also appears online in the US government’s “Pubmed” website. We look…

Mimic Da Vinici (™) Robotic Simulator

Marchand Institute Opens Advanced Robotic and Laparoscopic Surgical Simulation Laboratory

To compliment our already existing fellowship program, as well as enhance our surgical research and compliment our educational programs for medical students and residents, we are very excited to announce the completion of our Simulation Laboratory. This is the most advanced Surgical Simulation Laboratory in the USA incorporating both advanced laparoscopic and robotic simulators. Although…