Kanehira Eiji, Lirici Marco Maria, Melzer Andreas, Schurr Marc O, Hermann-Decker Elisabeth
Department of Surgery, Medical Topia Soka, Saitama, Japan.
Minim Invasive Ther Allied Technol. 2013 Aug;22(4):194-9. doi: 10.3109/13645706.2013.821998.
A quarter of a century has passed since the Society of Minimally Invasive Therapy (SMIT) was founded in 1989 with the aim to provide a platform to promote the development of minimally invasive therapy and the new instruments and devices needed to carry out the new surgical techniques. Both the founder of the society, British urologist John EA Wickham, and the German surgeon Gerhard F Buess, who was one of the leading members from the beginning, conceived SMIT as an interdisciplinary forum to promote the cooperation between physicians from various surgical specialties, but also medical engineers, resp. medical device manufacturers, whose expertise was needed to build the instruments that had to be developed to carry out the new concept of surgery. In this paper we outline the history of SMIT over the past 25 years in order to highlight both the ideas behind the society and the dedication of the people who shaped it.
自微创治疗协会（SMIT）于1989年成立至今，四分之一世纪的时光已经流逝。该协会旨在提供一个平台，以促进微创治疗的发展以及开展新手术技术所需的新仪器和设备的研发。协会创始人、英国泌尿科医生约翰·E·A·威克姆，以及从一开始就是主要成员之一的德国外科医生格哈德·F·布斯，都将SMIT视为一个跨学科论坛，以促进各外科专业医生之间的合作，同时也促进医学工程师以及医疗器械制造商之间的合作，因为制造实施新手术概念所需的仪器需要他们的专业知识。在本文中，我们概述了SMIT在过去25年的历史，以突出协会背后的理念以及塑造它的人们的奉献精神。
