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Robin L. Feuerbacher, PhD; Kenneth H. Funk, PhD; Donn H. Spight, MD; et al.
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Arch Surg. 2012;147(11):1026-1030. doi:10.1001/archsurg.2012.1480
Feuerbacher and colleagues hypothesized that realistic operating room distractions and interruptions (ORDIs) induce errors in a simulated surgical procedure performed by novice surgeons. For the study, 18 second-year, third-year, and research-year surgical residents completed a within-subjects experiment on a laparoscopic virtual reality simulator.
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Ann E. Falor, MD; Christian de Virgilio, MD; Bruce E. Stabile, MD; et al.
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Arch Surg. 2012;147(11):1031-1035. doi:10.1001/archsurg.2012.1473
In a retrospective review, Falor and coauthors hypothesize that patients with mild gallstone pancreatitis may undergo an early laparoscopic cholecystectomy within 48 hours of hospital admission without awaiting normalization of pancreatic and liver enzyme levels. An suggest that surgeons should feel more comfortable proceeding with an early laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
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Robin M. Cisco, MD; Jennifer H. Kuo, MD; Lauren Ogawa, BS; et al.
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Arch Surg. 2012;147(11):1036-1040. doi:10.1001/archsurg.2012.1476
In a retrospective review, Cisco et al compare intraoperative parathyroid hormone profiles in African American patients with non鈥揂frican American patients. In the related , Ryan discusses the need for randomized clinical trials on intraoperative parathyroid hormone kinetics.
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Megan Brenner, MD, MS; Deborah Stein, MD, MPH; Peter Hu, MS, CNE; et al.
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Arch Surg. 2012;147(11):1042-1046. doi:10.1001/archsurg.2012.1560
Brenner and colleagues retrospectively reviewed 1547 consecutive patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) who survived past 12 hours after hospital admission to investigate the relationship between oxygenation and short-term outcomes in patients with TBI.
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Nimmi S. Kapoor, MD; Myung-Shin Sim, DrPH; Jennifer Lin, MD; et al.
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Arch Surg. 2012;147(11):1047-1052. doi:10.1001/archsurg.2012.1563
Kapoor et al examine the long-term outcome of patients with early breast cancer with hematoxylin-eosin鈥搉egative sentinel lymph nodes who did not undergo completion axillary lymph node dissection.