Projects
The NESA coordinates international studies in the fields of general surgery, gynaecology, urology, otolaryngology and anaesthesiology. A couple of these studies are shortly presented here.
Natural Orifice Surgery / Scarless Operations Working Group
The NOS / SLO group is an interdisciplinary working group of the NESA. Its goal is to develop surgical procedures using the natural openings of the human body, and "scarless" operations. It elaborates study protocols, conducts pre-clinical and clinical studies, explores specific physiological and surgical aspects and develops adapted instruments.
Endoscopical procedures have replaced laparotomy in many cases. The NESA believes that the natural orifice pathway might equally replace many laparoscopic operations. This is due to the relatively low risk in introducting the instruments, and to the assumedly lower intra-abdominal pressure required. Transaxillar and transmamillar procedures are also optimized by the NOS / SLO working group.
The participants of the working group are surgeons from various surgical disciplines as well as pharmacologists, physiologists and representatives of the industry.
More information on the NOS / SLO working group