Live Surgery Articles

Live surgery remains controversial. Although it may improve surgical training and accelerate the dissemination of technical steps of surgical procedures, controversy exists regarding patient safety in live surgery.

To evaluate the opinion of urologists and their audience regarding patient safety and educational value of live surgical demonstrations (LSD) and semi-live surgical demonstrations (semi-LSD).

Following the '2017 Challenges in Endourology' meeting, a survey addressing patient safety and the educational value of LSD and semi-LSD was disseminated online to all participants.