SASES has produced numerous position statements on matters of interest to our members.
These are carefully considered and debated before release.
Some have been devised in response to medical funder queries or difficulties experienced by our members in everyday practice.
Patient Access to the Robotic Surgical Platform for Colorectal Surgery
Minimally invasive colorectal surgery represents the current standard of care. There is growing accessibility to the robotic surgical platform. Where the expertise and equipment are available,...
HIGSA Position Statement on Robotic Assisted Hernia Repair
Robotic surgery has a number of established benefits which include but are not limited to: 3-dimensional stereoscopic view, a stable image with no physiological tremor, more accurate refined...
Guidelines for the use of robotic surgery in colorectal adenomas
Summary of recommendations: • Endoscopic resection should be first-line therapy for the removal of large NPCPs where there is no suspicion of malignancy. • The operating surgeon should perform...
The use of local anaesthetic infiltration and regional local anaesthetic blocks
The Society of Endoscopic Surgeons of South Africa endorses the injection of local anaesthetic into port sites in every laparoscopic procedure where regional blocks have not been used. SASES also...
SASES consensus statement COVID-19
SASES consensus statement regarding minimally invasive surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic...
Instrumentation guidelines explanatory letter
There have been numerous attempts at controlling the costs of laparoscopic surgery during the past years. This is in part due to the expanding nature of MAS and due to the escalating costs of...
Guidelines for Acceptable use of Instrumentation in Surgery
There have been numerous attempts at controlling the costs of laparoscopic surgery during the past years. This is in part due to the expanding nature of MAS and due to the escalating costs of...