This post highlights one of the key ingredients in any successful surgery in my opinion:
The reliability of the surgical team
Uvealblues
This week, The Journal of the American Medical Association published a third study on the topic. Unlike the other two studies, which examined the outcomes of abdominal transplants, this one focused on transplant operations performed in the chest. And rather than reviewing the results of a single institution, as the previous investigators did, this most recent study took into account all of the almost 30,000 heart and lung transplants performed in the United States over 10 years.
The results surprised the researchers. Patients fared essentially the same whether the transplants were performed during the day or at night. Contrary to conventional wisdom, patient outcomes had little to do with the time of the operation or the fatigue of the surgeon. Rather, they seemed to hinge on the reliability of the surgical team.
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The reliability of the surgical team
Uvealblues
This week, The Journal of the American Medical Association published a third study on the topic. Unlike the other two studies, which examined the outcomes of abdominal transplants, this one focused on transplant operations performed in the chest. And rather than reviewing the results of a single institution, as the previous investigators did, this most recent study took into account all of the almost 30,000 heart and lung transplants performed in the United States over 10 years.
The results surprised the researchers. Patients fared essentially the same whether the transplants were performed during the day or at night. Contrary to conventional wisdom, patient outcomes had little to do with the time of the operation or the fatigue of the surgeon. Rather, they seemed to hinge on the reliability of the surgical team.
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