Scrub Nurse in Minimally Invasive and Robotic General Surgery: Endorsed by the Italian Society of Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgery & New technologies and by the Italian Association of Scrub Nurses

This comprehensive book provides an excellent overview on the role of the scrub and circulating nurse during minimally invasive procedures and a detailed description of the specific instruments adopted during surgical procedures in each subspecialty areas as esophago-gastric, colorectal, endocrino-metabolic, hepato-biliary, spleno-pancreatic and abdominal wall surgery. The concept that laparoscopy now allows everyone to actively see all the surgical steps and therefore to be no longer just a simple “another man/woman in the theatre” but an active actor. The need therefore for all the nurses – and above all the scrub ones - to know and to have the knowledge - and therefore to have in a sort of parallelism thanks to this manual - the purely medical surgical steps with the corresponding and parallel nursing ones: an added value in the training and preparation of the all the people involved in surgery. 

Since November 2012 he has been Director of the Surgical Clinic of the Ospedaliero-Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti of Ancona; since 2019 the SOD of Emergency Surgery has been annexed to this department with a new name: General and Emergency Surgical Clinic. He is Director of the Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine. He is Coordinator of the PhD in Human Health of the Politecnica della Marche He is currently a member of the Academic Senate. From October 2021 he holds the position of President of the Italian Society of Endoscopic Surgery and New Technologies (SICE) He directed the graduate school in General Surgery for three years. He boasts over 10,000 interventions as first operator, of which more than 70% with minimally invasive techniques.