Annals of surgery
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Multicenter Study
Association Between Intraoperative Dexamethasone and Postoperative Mortality in Patients Undergoing Oncologic Surgery: A Multicentric Cohort Study.
We examined the effects of dexamethasone on postoperative mortality, recurrence-free survival, and side effects in patients undergoing oncologic operations. ⋯ Dexamethasone is associated with decreased 1-year mortality and cancer recurrence in patients undergoing surgical resection of cancers that are not candidates for immune modulators. Dexamethasone increased the risk of postoperative hyperglycemia, however, no increase in surgical site infections was identified.
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Multicenter Study
Defining Benchmark Outcomes for Distal Pancreatectomy: Results of a French Multicentric Study.
Defining robust and standardized outcome references for distal pancreatectomy (DP) by using Benchmark analysis. ⋯ This large-scale study is the first benchmark analysis of DP outcomes and provides robust and standardized data. This may allow for comparisons between surgeons, centers, studies, and surgical techniques.
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Multicenter Study
Disparities in the Operative Experience Between Female and Male General Surgery Residents: A Multi-Institutional Study from the US ROPE Consortium.
To examine differences in resident operative experience between male and female general surgery residents. ⋯ Female general surgery graduates performed significantly fewer cases than male graduates. Reassuringly, this gap in operative experience may be narrowing. Further interventions are warranted to promote equitable training opportunities that support and engage female residents.
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Surgeons' Leadership Style and Team Behavior in the Hybrid Operating Room: Prospective Cohort Study.
This study aimed to assess the relationship between surgeons' leadership style and team behavior in the hybrid operating room through video coding. Secondly, possible fluctuations possible fluctuations in leadership styles and team behavior during operative phases were studied. ⋯ Consistent with other professional fields, surgeons' transformational leadership enhances team behavior, especially during the most complex operative phases. This suggests that encouraging surgeons to learn and actively implement a transformational leadership style is meaningful to enhance patient safety and team performance.
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The aim was to determine the prevalence of metastases to the cervical and recurrent laryngeal cervicothoracic (CT) nodes as well as survival and recurrence patterns after esophagectomy with three-field lymph node dissection (TFD) in patients with predominately adenocarcinoma (AC) of the esophagus. ⋯ Metastases to the CT nodes are common in both SCC and AC of the esophagus and may be present in at least 14% of early lesions. Five-year survival is encouraging particularly for patients with esophageal SCC cancer.