{"id":15035,"date":"2020-10-27T14:48:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T18:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/laparoscopic-tower-enhances-surgical-tech-student-learning\/"},"modified":"2020-10-27T14:48:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T18:48:07","slug":"laparoscopic-tower-enhances-surgical-tech-student-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/laparoscopic-tower-enhances-surgical-tech-student-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Laparoscopic Tower Enhances Surgical Tech Student Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/laparoscopic-tower-enhances-surgical-tech-student-learning\/laparoscopic-picture\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-113876\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-113876\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/laparoscopic-picture-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a>The college&#8217;s Surgical Technology Program is utilizing a newly purchased Stortz laparoscopic tower to simulate a minimally evasive abdominal surgery experience for first-year students. They have also figured out an unusual but holiday-appropriate gourd to fill in for a human abdomen.<\/p>\n<p>Students using the simulation lab, which creates a mock operating room experience, learn the technique and associated benefits of laparoscopic surgery.\u00a0\u00a0 In this scenario, a laparoscopic tower, which includes a camera, light source and lens is used in conjunction with a pumpkin and a 1 centimeter incision to replicate a real life laparoscopic abdominal surgery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:48:07 +0000 by\u00a0e.bryant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The college&#8217;s Surgical Technology Program is utilizing a newly purchased Stortz laparoscopic tower to simulate a minimally evasive abdominal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}