Surgeons

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 2020 Women in Thoracic Surgery Update on the Status of Women in Cardiothoracic Surgery. 
  • A Decade of Change: Training and Career Paths of Cardiothoracic Surgery Residents 2003 to 2014. 
  • A Study of Practice Behavior for Endotracheal Intubation Site for Children With Congenital Heart Disease Undergoing Surgery: Impact of Endotracheal Intubation Site on Perioperative Outcomes-An Analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society Database. 
  • A novel surgeon credentialing and quality assurance process using transoral surgery for oropharyngeal cancer in ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group Trial E3311. 
  • A study of factors influencing surgical cesarean delivery times in an academic tertiary center. 
  • A tribute to professor Panayotis Soucacos "Takis": A great surgeon, teacher and scholar. 
  • Access to pediatric surgery delivered by general surgeons and anesthesia providers in Uganda: Results from 2 rural regional hospitals. 
  • Adult Scoliosis Deformity Surgery: Comparison of Outcomes Between One Versus Two Attending Surgeons. 
  • Ambient operating room temperature: mother, baby or surgeon? 
  • American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons Advocacy Efforts in Response to the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic. 
  • An evidence-based intraoperative communication tool for emergency general surgery: a pilot study. 
  • Are Minimally Invasive Spine Surgeons or Classical Open Spine Surgeons More Consistent with Their Treatment of Adult Spinal Deformity? 
  • Assessing the Influence of Attending Surgeon Continuity on Free Flap Outcomes Following Unplanned Returns to the Operating Room. 
  • Assessment of Impact of Long-Cassette Standing X-Rays on Surgical Planning for Cervical Pathology: An International Survey of Spine Surgeons. 
  • Association of Surgeon Age and Experience With Congenital Heart Surgery Outcomes. 
  • At-home hands-on surgical training during COVID19: proof of concept using a virtual telementoring platform. 
  • Awareness of racial/ethnic disparities in surgical outcomes and care: factors affecting acknowledgment and action. 
  • Bayard Holmes (1852-1924) and Henry Cotton (1869-1933): Surgeon-psychiatrists and their tragic quest to cure schizophrenia. 
  • Becoming a surgeon-scientist: my transition from fellowship to faculty. 
  • Biomechanical studies: science (f)or common sense? 
  • Borrowing from Adult Cardiac Surgeons-Bringing Congenital Heart Surgery Up to Speed in the Minimally Invasive Era. 
  • Can 360-Degree Reviews Help Surgeons? Evaluation of Multisource Feedback for Surgeons in a Multi-Institutional Quality Improvement Project. 
  • Can a Surgeon Refuse to Operate When an Advance Directive Limits Postoperative Care? 
  • Cardiac surgeons' concerns, perceptions, and responses during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • Cardiac surgery in North America and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): Regional variability in burden and impact. 
  • Changing tides: A vascular surgery trainee perspective on the #MedBikini Campaign and a call for action. 
  • Clinical Utility of the 12-Gene DCIS Score Assay: Impact on Radiotherapy Recommendations for Patients with Ductal Carcinoma In Situ. 
  • Commentary: Central venous access in congenital heart surgery: Is it time for surgeons to toe (and place) the line? 
  • Commentary: Universal surgical risk models: The answer you receive depends on the question you ask. 
  • Comparing clinical outcomes of macular hole surgeries performed by trainee surgeons using a 3D heads-up display viewing system versus a standard operating microscope. 
  • Composite Performance Measures: The Foundation of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Quality Measurement Program. 
  • Consensus for Thoracoscopic Left Upper Lobectomy-Essential Components and Targets for Simulation. 
  • Coronary Endarterectomy: Analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database. 
  • Cost effectiveness of a short-term pediatric neurosurgical brigade to Guatemala. 
  • Current Penetration, Completeness, and Representativeness of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database. 
  • Decision-Making in Middle Vault Reconstruction following Dorsal Hump Reduction in Primary Rhinoplasty. 
  • Defining Proficiency for The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Participants Performing Thoracoscopic Lobectomy. 
  • Development and Feasibility Testing of a Device Briefing Tool and Training to Improve Patient Safety During Introduction of New Devices in Operating Rooms: Best Practices and Lessons Learned. 
  • Disparities between Operative Time and Relative Value Units for Plastic Surgery Procedures. 
  • Disparities in surgical care for children across Brazil: Use of geospatial analysis. 
  • Does the Geographical Distribution of Facial Trauma Surgeons Correspond to Facial Trauma Burden? A Nationwide Population-Level Analysis. 
  • Does the presence of programmable implanted devices in patients with early onset scoliosis alter typical operative and postoperative practices? A survey of spine surgeons. 
  • Dr Robert Loh Choo Kiat, JP, BBM, PJG (1925 - 2017). 
  • Early Extubation After Repair of Tetralogy of Fallot and the Fontan Procedure: An Analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Echocardiographic Assessment of Complete Atrioventricular Canal Defects: A Balancing Act. 
  • Effect of Obesity and Underweight Status on Perioperative Outcomes of Congenital Heart Operations in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: An Analysis of Data From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database. 
  • Eleventh International Women in Surgery Career Symposium, February 14-16, 2020 Sand Key Resort, Clearwater Florida. 
  • Establishing Benchmarks For Minimum Competence With Dry Lab Robotic Surgery Drills. 
  • Ethical Standards for Cardiothoracic Surgeons' Participation in Social Media. 
  • Ethical standards for cardiothoracic surgeons' participation in social media. 
  • Evaluation of practice patterns of chemodenervation for anal fissure of the ASCRS young surgeons. 
  • Executive Summary: Social Risk Factors in Society of Thoracic Surgeons Risk Models. 
  • Factors associated with surgeon recommendation for additional cast immobilization of a CT-verified nondisplaced scaphoid waist fracture. 
  • Failure to Rescue: A New Society of Thoracic Surgeons Quality Metric for Cardiac Surgery. 
  • From Open to MIS: Robotic Surgery Enables Surgeons to Do More With Less. 
  • Gender-Based Microaggressions in Surgery: A Scoping Review of the Global Literature. 
  • Generating the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Score Using Multivariable Predictive Models and Computer Adaptive Testing to Reduce Survey Burden. 
  • Geographic Access to Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Centers in the United States: Insights From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry. 
  • Geospatial analysis of pediatric surgical need and geographical access to care in Somaliland: a cross-sectional study. 
  • Germline Genetic Testing: What the Breast Surgeon Needs to Know. 
  • Global Surgery Pro-Con Debate: A Pathway to Bilateral Academic Success or the Bold New Face of Colonialism? 
  • Guidelines for the Use of Transesophageal Echocardiography to Assist with Surgical Decision-Making in the Operating Room: A Surgery-Based Approach: From the American Society of Echocardiography in Collaboration with the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. 
  • How Should We Use Patient-Reported Outcome Measures at the Point of Care in Hand Surgery? 
  • How are we currently training and maintaining clinical readiness of US and UK military surgeons responsible for managing head, face and neck wounds on deployment? 
  • Impact of centre volume, surgeon volume, surgeon experience and geographic location on reoperation after intramedullary nailing of tibial shaft fractures 
  • Implications of Training Pathways on Future Academic Plastic Surgeon Employment. 
  • Incidence of perioperative medical complications and mortality among elderly patients undergoing surgery for spinal deformity: analysis of 3519 patients. 
  • Incorporating 3D Printing Into Your Practice: Lessons Learned. 
  • Increasing Resident Autonomy Without Compromising Patient Safety. 
  • Individual, Area, and Provider Characteristics Associated With Care Received for Stages I to III Breast Cancer in a Multistate Region of Appalachia. 
  • Informed consent: a shared decision-making process that creates a new professional obligation for care. 
  • Inter-surgeon variability is associated with likelihood to undergo minimally invasive hepatectomy and postoperative mortality. 
  • Interpreting the Lancet surgical indicators in Somaliland: a cross-sectional study. 
  • Is Off-Pump CABG Off Base? 
  • Isolated Mitral Valve Surgery: The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database Analysis. 
  • It's not you, It's me: The influence of patient and surgeon gender on patient satisfaction scores. 
  • KeyLoop: Mechanical Retraction of the Abdominal Wall for Gasless Laparoscopy. 
  • Laparoscopic experience and attitudes toward a low-cost laparoscopic system among surgeons in East, Central, and Southern Africa: a survey study. 
  • Leadership and Advanced Degrees: Evaluating the Association Between Dual Degrees and Leadership Roles in Academic Plastic Surgery. 
  • Lymphadenopathy in children: A streamlined approach for the surgeon - A report from the APSA Cancer Committee. 
  • Margin Management and Adjuvant Therapy for Phyllodes Tumors: Practice Patterns of the American Society of Breast Surgeons Members. 
  • Measuring Patterns of Surgeon Confidence Using a Novel Assessment Tool. 
  • Medical Malpractice Trends in Foot and Ankle Surgery. 
  • Multisource Evaluation of Surgeon Behavior Is Associated With Malpractice Claims. 
  • Natural language processing and entrustable professional activity text feedback in surgery: A machine learning model of resident autonomy. 
  • Organ Acceptance and Outcomes-A Surgeon's Perspective-Reply. 
  • Outcomes in the Randomized CoreValve US Pivotal High Risk Trial in Patients With a Society of Thoracic Surgeons Risk Score of 7% or Less. 
  • Outcomes of Conversion Total Hip Arthroplasty From Free Vascularized Fibular Grafting. 
  • Pain Control in Breast Surgery: Survey of Current Practice and Recommendations for Optimizing Management-American Society of Breast Surgeons Opioid/Pain Control Workgroup. 
  • Pain management, fluid therapy and thromboprophylaxis after pancreatoduodenectomy: a worldwide survey among surgeons. 
  • Patient Age and Tumor Subtype Predict the Extent of Axillary Surgery Among Breast Cancer Patients Eligible for the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group Trial Z0011. 
  • Patient selection and outcomes of laparoscopic transabdominal versus posterior retroperitoneal adrenalectomy among surgeons in the Collaborative Endocrine Surgery Quality Improvement Program (CESQIP). 
  • Patterns of Performance of Oncologic Surgery by North American Pediatric Urologists: A Report from the Pediatric Urologic Oncology Working Group of the Society for Pediatric Urology. 
  • Penetration, Completeness, and Representativeness of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database for Lobectomy. 
  • Perioperative Practice Patterns for Rhinoplasty: Faculty Speakers from the First International Meeting of Rhinoplasty Societies. 
  • Perspectives on the Costs of Cancer Care: A Survey of the American Society of Breast Surgeons. 
  • Practice Management Strategies Among Current Members of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons. 
  • Practice Patterns and Outcomes of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in the United States and Japan: A Report From Joint Data Harmonization Initiative of STS/ACC TVT and J-TVT. 
  • Practice Variations in Chemodenervation for Anal Fissure Among American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons Members. 
  • Precision oncology: A primer for pediatric surgeons from the APSA cancer committee. 
  • Predictors of Burnout and Depression in Surgeons Practicing in East, Central, and Southern Africa. 
  • Provision of Surgical Care for Children Across Somaliland: Challenges and Policy Guidance. 
  • Quality Versus Costs Related to Gastrointestinal Surgery: Disentangling the Value Proposition. 
  • Quantified electronic health record (EHR) use by academic surgeons. 
  • Re-engineering the Surgeon-Scientist Pipeline: Advancing Diversity and Equity to Fuel Scientific Innovation. 
  • Referable Macular Hemorrhage-A Clinically Meaningful Screening Target in Newborn Infants. Position Statement of the Association of Pediatric Retina Surgeons. 
  • Relationship Between Operating Room Teamwork, Contextual Factors, and Safety Checklist Performance. 
  • Relative Value Units Underestimate Reimbursement for Revision Shoulder Arthroplasty. 
  • Renal Thermal Ablation Trends of American Urologists. 
  • Reply to: "Surgeon Volume Threshold for Total Thyroidectomy". 
  • Reply: Each procedure matters: threshold for surgeon volume to minimize complications and decrease cost associated with adrenalectomy. 
  • Reply: Redo SAVR After Primary TAVR, A Dangerous Sequence? 
  • Reply: Uncertainty in Uncertainty: How Risky Is Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement After TAVR? 
  • Report of the 2015 Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Practice Survey. 
  • Response to the Comment on "Proving the Effectiveness of the Fundamentals of Robotic Surgery (FRS) Skills Curriculum: A Single-blinded, Multispecialty, Multi-institutional Randomized Control Trial: Not Only Surgeon's Manual Skills..." 
  • Routine Gastric Decompression after Pancreatoduodenectomy: Treating the Surgeon? 
  • Self-Directed Interactive Video-Based Instruction Versus Instructor-Led Teaching for Myanmar House Surgeons: A Randomized, Noninferiority Trial. 
  • Sex Differences in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Techniques: A Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database Analysis. 
  • Short-Term Outcome of Clipping Versus Coiling of Ruptured Intracranial Aneurysms Treated by Dual-Trained Cerebrovascular Surgeon: Single-Institution Experience. 
  • Significant variation in P2Y12 inhibitor use after peripheral vascular intervention in Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Single Assessment Numeric Evaluation (SANE) correlates with American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons score and Western Ontario Rotator Cuff index in patients undergoing arthroscopic rotator cuff repair. 
  • Smoking and TAVR. 
  • Social Risk Factors in Society of Thoracic Surgeons Risk Models. Part 1: Concepts, Indicator Variables, and Controversies. 
  • Social Risk Factors in Society of Thoracic Surgeons Risk Models. Part 2: Empirical Studies in Cardiac Surgery; Risk Model Recommendations. 
  • Society of Thoracic Surgeons Risk Score and EuroSCORE-2 Appropriately Assess 30-Day Postoperative Mortality in the STICH Trial and a Contemporary Cohort of Patients With Left Ventricular Dysfunction Undergoing Surgical Revascularization. 
  • Surgeon Variability Impacts Costs in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: the Volume-Cost Relationship. 
  • Surgeon Volume and Complications in Lateral Neck Dissection for Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Multidatabase Analysis. 
  • Surgeon choice in the use of postdischarge antibiotics for prophylaxis following mastectomy with and without breast reconstruction. 
  • Surgeon volume and adequacy of thyroidectomy for differentiated thyroid cancer. 
  • Surgeon-Performed High-Dose Bupivacaine Periarticular Injection With Intra-Articular Saphenous Nerve Block Is Not Inferior to Adductor Canal Block in Total Knee Arthroplasty. 
  • Surgeons OverSeas Assessment of Surgical Need (SOSAS) Uganda: Update for Household Survey. 
  • Surgeons' Recommendations for Neurodiagnostic Testing With High Pretest Probability of Idiopathic Median Neuropathy at the Carpal Tunnel. 
  • Surgeons' risk perception in ASD surgery: The value of objective risk assessment on decision making and patient counselling. 
  • Surgeons, plague, and leadership: A historical mantle to carry forward. 
  • Surgical Trainees' Sense of Responsibility for Patient Outcomes: A Multi-institutional Appraisal. 
  • Surgical treatment for recurrent shoulder instability: factors influencing surgeon decision making. 
  • Talking the talk: The keys to effective workplace communication. 
  • Textbook outcomes in hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery. 
  • The "Nouvelle Vague" of surgeons in pancreatic surgery: can they rise to the legacy of current surgeons? 
  • The American Association of Endocrine Surgeons Guidelines for the Definitive Surgical Management of Secondary and Tertiary Renal Hyperparathyroidism. 
  • The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Surgical Risk Calculator Has a Role in Predicting Discharge to Post-Acute Care in Total Joint Arthroplasty. 
  • The American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Hemorrhoids. 
  • The Association of Overall Annual Hospital Volume and Perioperative Outcomes following Free Flap Breast Reconstruction. 
  • The Authors Reply. 
  • The College of Surgeons of East, Central, and Southern Africa: Successes and Challenges in Standardizing Neurosurgical Training. 
  • The Critical Portions of Carpal Tunnel Surgery: A Comparison Between Opinions of Surgeons and the General Public. 
  • The Effect of Surgeon Experience on Outcomes Following Growth Friendly Instrumentation for Early Onset Scoliosis. 
  • The Evolving Landscape of Global Surgery: A Qualitative Study of North American Surgeons' Perspectives on Faith-Based and Academic Initiatives. 
  • The Evolving Landscape of Medical Device Regulation in East, Central, and Southern Africa. 
  • The Orator-Surgeon. 
  • The Perioperative Use of Dexmedetomidine in Pediatric Patients with Congenital Heart Disease: An Analysis from the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society-Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Disease Database. 
  • The Preservation and Handling of Vein Grafts in Current Surgical Practice: Findings of a Survey Among Cardiovascular Surgeons of Top-Ranked US Hospitals. 
  • The Removal of Total Hip and Total Knee Arthroplasty From the Inpatient-Only List Increases the Administrative Burden of Surgeons and Continues to Cause Confusion. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons 2021 Adult Cardiac Surgery Risk Models for Multiple Valve Operations. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database: 2021 Update on Echocardiography. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database: 2016 Update on Research. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database: 2018 Update on Research. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database: 2019 Update on Research. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Composite Measure: 2021 Methodology Update. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American Association for Thoracic Surgery Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Management of Type B Aortic Dissection. 
  • The Surgical Personality: Does Surgery Resident Motivation Predict Attrition? 
  • The association for surgical education CESERT grant program: the first 15 years. 
  • The business of educating the next generation of surgeons. 
  • The first six years of the APSA Travel Fellowship Program: Impact and lessons learned. 
  • The impact of surgeon volume on perioperative adverse events in women undergoing minimally invasive hysterectomy for the large uterus. 
  • The male sling for stress urinary incontinence: tips and tricks for success. 
  • The medicolegal impact of misplaced pedicle and lateral mass screws on spine surgery in the United States. 
  • The necessity of self-promotion: A key component to early practice building. 
  • Towards defining the surgical workforce for children: a geospatial analysis in Brazil. 
  • Trauma Surgeons' Perceptions of Resuscitating Lethally Injured Patients for Organ Preservation. 
  • Trends in Racial, Ethnic, and Sex Representation Among Surgical Faculty Members and Medical Students in the US, 2011-2020. 
  • Use of Automated Performance Metrics to Measure Surgeon Performance during Robotic Vesicourethral Anastomosis and Methodical Development of a Training Tutorial. 
  • Use of a Wearable Posture-Correcting Device to Train Residents in Plastic Surgery: A Novel Approach to Surgical Ergonomics and Prevention of Associated Musculoskeletal Disorders. 
  • Utilization and Outcomes of the Nikaidoh, Rastelli, and REV Procedures: An Analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Variability in Assessing Spinopelvic Parameters with Lumbosacral Transitional Vertebrae: Inter- and Intra-observer Reliability among Spine Surgeons. 
  • Variation in Antithrombotic Therapy and Clinical Outcomes in Patients With Preexisting Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Insights From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry. 
  • Variation in Physician-Specific Episode Payments for Major Cancer Surgery and Implications for the Merit-Based Incentive Program. 
  • Virtual Surgery for the Nasal Airway: A Preliminary Report on Decision Support and Technology Acceptance. 
  • Volume Pledge is Not Associated with Better Short-Term Outcomes After Lung Cancer Resection. 
  • Volume-outcome relationship in adrenal surgery: A review of existing literature. 
  • When the trauma never ends: (Post)-Traumatic Stress Disorder after COVID-19 amongst trauma and acute care surgeons. 
  • Which Cholecystectomy Technique Would Surgeons Prefer on Themselves? 
  • Which Factors Are Important to Women When Choosing a Breast Reconstruction Surgeon? 
  • Which Surgical Specialties Provide Craniomaxillofacial Trauma Services at American College of Surgeons Level I Trauma Centers. 
  • William Howard Taft and His Complicated Perianal Disease. 
  • Worldwide Trends in Multi-arterial Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery 2004-2014: A Tale of 2 Continents.