2022 SASES Presidents Report
What a pleasure to be able to attend a meeting without masks and distancing or sitting alone in front of the computer in a virtual meeting. The success of continued learning is partly dependant on …
2021 SASES Presidents Report
Presidents Report 2021 - The South African Society of Endoscopic Surgeons As a Surgeon in a respiratory disease pandemic, our profession and, often our patients, had to take a back seat to the burden of respiratory …
Update on SASES and Bariatric Surgery
Dear Members The SASES Exco has been reviewing the position of bariatric and metabolic surgery in South Africa with the view to supporting this very necessary surgery. From the outset the SASES Exco has …
Laparoscopic Appendectomy Study, Medscheme
22 May 2017 The final analysis of our six-month study was completed by Medscheme. Fedhealth has now agreed to allow all appendectomies to be done laparoscopically, by SASES surgeons, in any hospital until the end …
BREAKING NEWS : BONITAS MEDICAL SCHEME / LAPAROSCOPIC APPENDECTOMIES
After our Laparoscopic Appendectomy Pilot Study which admittedly produced very small numbers, Bonitas Medical Scheme, who as you know falls under the Medscheme umbrella – our partners in the Laparoscopic Appendicectomy Study - have agreed …
FEEDBACK ON MEDSCHEME LAPAROSCOPIC APPENDIX PROJECT
The pilot project for Laparoscopic Appendicectomies under the Medscheme umbrella came to an end on 31/12/2016. Medscheme have started to unbundle the data which shows the following: A very small cohort of patients …