Department of Surgery, Rhode Island Hospital, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

Chibueze A. Nwaiwu & Peter C. W. Kim

Activ Surgical Inc., 30 Thomson Place, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA, 02127, USA

Chibueze A. Nwaiwu, Christopher J. McCulloh, Garrett Skinner & Peter C. W. Kim

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA

Garrett Skinner & Steven D. Schwaitzberg

Department of Surgery, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA

Garrett Skinner & Steven D. Schwaitzberg

Buffalo General Hospital, Buffalo, NY, USA

Garrett Skinner & Steven D. Schwaitzberg

Division of Minimally Invasive and Elective General Surgery, Department of Surgery, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA

Shinil K. Shah & Erik B. Wilson

Michael E. DeBakey Institute for Comparative Cardiovascular Science and Biomedical Devices, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

Shinil K. Shah

C Nwaiwu: project development, data collection, data analysis, manuscript writing/editing.

C McCulloh: project development, data analysis, manuscript writing/editing.

G Skinner: project development, data collection, data analysis, manuscript writing/editing.

S Shah: project development, data collection, manuscript writing/editing.

P Kim: protocol/project development, data collection, data analysis, manuscript writing/editing.

S Schwaitzberg: protocol/project development, data collection, manuscript writing/editing.

E Wilson: protocol/project development, data collection, manuscript writing/editing.

Correspondence to Peter C. W. Kim.