Abstract

Study Objective. To evaluate the efficacy of the laparoscopic Pomeroy method of tubal ligation as a teaching tool during the initial acquisition of advanced laparoscopic skills by 14 residents in a 28-person, 4-year program. Design. A prospective, nonrandomized study. Setting. A metropolitan teaching hospital. Patients. Fifty-seven women who desired permanent sterilization, and 56 controls who underwent laparoscopic sterilization by standard coagulation. One refused entry and had standard sterilization by bipolar coagulation. In two women, both with several previous laparotomies, visualization of the pelvic organs was incomplete and the procedure was abandoned at the discretion of the surgeon. One had a minilaparotomy Pomeroy tubal ligation and the other was sterilized by standard two-puncture laparoscopic coagulation. One patient was excluded due to an incomplete data profile. Interventions. Laparoscopic sterilizations using the Pomeroy technique and standard coagulation were performed by gynecology residents with an attending physician present. First-year residents performed 36 (68%) of the 53 procedures. Measurements and Main Results. Operative times to teach this technique to house officers rotating on the gynecologic service were recorded by postgraduate year and stratified by the number of cases performed by each operator. The average operative times for residents in postgraduate years 1 through 4 were 18.6, 15.4, 21.7, and 14.8 minutes, respectively. These diminished with experience. A statistically longer time of 7.1 minutes was required to teach residents the Pomeroy technique compared with standard bipolar coagulation (p<0.0003). Conclusion. Laparoscopic Pomeroy tubal ligation as a method to begin educating residents in advanced operative video-laparoscopy appears to have great potential.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)321-324
Number of pages4
JournalJournal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology
Volume1
Issue number4 PART 1
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 1994

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