Tastaldi, L.
Blatnik, J. A.
Krpata, D. M.
Petro, C. C.
Fafaj, A.
Alkhatib, H.
Svestka, M.
Rosenblatt, S.
Prabhu, A. S.
Rosen, M. J.
Article History
Received: 22 November 2018
Accepted: 19 February 2019
First Online: 21 February 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: LT and AF declare resident research grants from the AHSQC that are not related to the submitted work. JAB has received: grants from the Americas Hernia Society, Intuitive Surgical Inc., and Colorado Therapeutics and personal fees from Colorado Therapeutics, Bard Davol Inc., Medtronic Inc., Intuitive Surgical Inc., and Cook Biomedical. None of these conflicts of interest are related to the submitted work. DMK has received an educational grant from W.L Gore that is not related to the submitted work. ASP has received a research grant from Intuitive Inc. and personal fees from Intuitive Inc. and Medtronic Inc. that are not related to the submitted work. MJR declares to receive salary support from the AHSQC, research grants from Intuitive Inc. and Pacira Pharmaceuticals Inc., and to be a board member and have stock options from Ariste Medical; none of these conflicts of interest are related to the submitted work. CCP, HA, MS, and SR declare no conflicts of interest.
: This study was approved by the local Institution Review Boards (IRB) from both participating institutions.
: This study does not contain any studies with participants or animals performed by any of the authors.
: For this type of study, formal consent was not required.