full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Nikolai Begg: A tool to fix one of the most dangerous moments in surgery

Unscramble the Blue Letters


The first time I saw that I was watching a type of surgery claled laparoscopic surgery And for those of you who are unfamiliar, laparoscopic surgery, instead of the large open incision you might be used to with surgery, a lpacsiooparc surgery is where the surgeon ceaerts these three or more small incisions in the patient. And then inserts these long, thin itnmuensrts and a camera, and actually does the procedure inside the patient. This is great because there's much less risk of infection, much less pain, shorter recovery time. But there is a trade-off, because these incisions are created with a long, pointed device called a trocar. And the way the surgeon uses this device is that he takes it and he presses it into the adobmen until it pctruenus through. And now the reason why everyone in the orpiaetng room was staring at that device on that day was because he had to be asllbeouty careful not to plunge it through and puncture it into the organs and blood vessels below. But this problem should seem pretty familiar to all of you because I'm pretty sure you've seen it somewhere else. (laghuter) Remember this? (Applause) You knew that at any second that straw was going to plunge through, and you didn't know if it was going to go out the other side and straight into your hand, or if you were going to get juice everywhere, but you were terrified. Right? Every single time you did this, you eneerxipecd the same fnemuatandl physics that I was watching in the operating room that day. And it turns out it really is a problem. In 2003, the FDA actually came out and said that trocar incisions might be the most dangerous step in minimally invasive surgery. Again in 2009, we see a paper that says that trocars acuncot for over half of all maojr conoipcimalts in laparoscopic segrruy. And, oh by the way, this hasn't changed for 25 years.

Open Cloze


The first time I saw that I was watching a type of surgery ______ laparoscopic surgery And for those of you who are unfamiliar, laparoscopic surgery, instead of the large open incision you might be used to with surgery, a ____________ surgery is where the surgeon _______ these three or more small incisions in the patient. And then inserts these long, thin ___________ and a camera, and actually does the procedure inside the patient. This is great because there's much less risk of infection, much less pain, shorter recovery time. But there is a trade-off, because these incisions are created with a long, pointed device called a trocar. And the way the surgeon uses this device is that he takes it and he presses it into the _______ until it _________ through. And now the reason why everyone in the _________ room was staring at that device on that day was because he had to be __________ careful not to plunge it through and puncture it into the organs and blood vessels below. But this problem should seem pretty familiar to all of you because I'm pretty sure you've seen it somewhere else. (________) Remember this? (Applause) You knew that at any second that straw was going to plunge through, and you didn't know if it was going to go out the other side and straight into your hand, or if you were going to get juice everywhere, but you were terrified. Right? Every single time you did this, you ___________ the same ___________ physics that I was watching in the operating room that day. And it turns out it really is a problem. In 2003, the FDA actually came out and said that trocar incisions might be the most dangerous step in minimally invasive surgery. Again in 2009, we see a paper that says that trocars _______ for over half of all _____ _____________ in laparoscopic _______. And, oh by the way, this hasn't changed for 25 years.

Solution


  1. operating
  2. abdomen
  3. major
  4. called
  5. laparoscopic
  6. surgery
  7. laughter
  8. experienced
  9. punctures
  10. complications
  11. instruments
  12. creates
  13. account
  14. absolutely
  15. fundamental

Original Text


The first time I saw that I was watching a type of surgery called laparoscopic surgery And for those of you who are unfamiliar, laparoscopic surgery, instead of the large open incision you might be used to with surgery, a laparoscopic surgery is where the surgeon creates these three or more small incisions in the patient. And then inserts these long, thin instruments and a camera, and actually does the procedure inside the patient. This is great because there's much less risk of infection, much less pain, shorter recovery time. But there is a trade-off, because these incisions are created with a long, pointed device called a trocar. And the way the surgeon uses this device is that he takes it and he presses it into the abdomen until it punctures through. And now the reason why everyone in the operating room was staring at that device on that day was because he had to be absolutely careful not to plunge it through and puncture it into the organs and blood vessels below. But this problem should seem pretty familiar to all of you because I'm pretty sure you've seen it somewhere else. (Laughter) Remember this? (Applause) You knew that at any second that straw was going to plunge through, and you didn't know if it was going to go out the other side and straight into your hand, or if you were going to get juice everywhere, but you were terrified. Right? Every single time you did this, you experienced the same fundamental physics that I was watching in the operating room that day. And it turns out it really is a problem. In 2003, the FDA actually came out and said that trocar incisions might be the most dangerous step in minimally invasive surgery. Again in 2009, we see a paper that says that trocars account for over half of all major complications in laparoscopic surgery. And, oh by the way, this hasn't changed for 25 years.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
laparoscopic surgery 6
operating room 4
music playing 2
fundamental physics 2
cranial drilling 2
bone marrow 2
mechanism unlocks 2
favorite quote 2


Important Words


  1. abdomen
  2. absolutely
  3. account
  4. applause
  5. blood
  6. called
  7. camera
  8. careful
  9. changed
  10. complications
  11. created
  12. creates
  13. dangerous
  14. day
  15. device
  16. experienced
  17. familiar
  18. fda
  19. fundamental
  20. great
  21. hand
  22. incision
  23. incisions
  24. infection
  25. inserts
  26. instruments
  27. invasive
  28. juice
  29. knew
  30. laparoscopic
  31. large
  32. laughter
  33. long
  34. major
  35. minimally
  36. open
  37. operating
  38. organs
  39. pain
  40. paper
  41. patient
  42. physics
  43. plunge
  44. pointed
  45. presses
  46. pretty
  47. problem
  48. procedure
  49. puncture
  50. punctures
  51. reason
  52. recovery
  53. remember
  54. risk
  55. room
  56. shorter
  57. side
  58. single
  59. small
  60. staring
  61. step
  62. straight
  63. straw
  64. surgeon
  65. surgery
  66. takes
  67. terrified
  68. thin
  69. time
  70. trocar
  71. trocars
  72. turns
  73. type
  74. unfamiliar
  75. vessels
  76. watching
  77. years