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Single Surgeon versus Co-Surgeons in Primary Total Joint Arthroplasty: Does “Two Is Better than One” Apply to Surgeons?
Background: As the demand for total joint arthroplasties (TJA) increases steadily, so does the pressure to train future surgeons and, at the same time, achieve optimal outcomes. We aimed to identify differences in operative times and short-term surgical outcomes of TJAs performed by co-surgeons vers...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9604737/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36294821 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jpm12101683 |
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author | Frenkel Rutenberg, Tal Vitenberg, Maria Daglan, Efrat Kadar, Assaf Shemesh, Shai |
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description | Background: As the demand for total joint arthroplasties (TJA) increases steadily, so does the pressure to train future surgeons and, at the same time, achieve optimal outcomes. We aimed to identify differences in operative times and short-term surgical outcomes of TJAs performed by co-surgeons versus a single attending surgeon. Methods: A retrospective analysis of 597 TJAs, including 239 total hip arthroplasties (THAs) and 358 total knee arthroplasties (TKAs) was conducted. All operations were performed by one of four fellowship-trained attending surgeons as the primary surgeon. The assisting surgeons were either attendings or residents. Results: In 51% of THA and in 38% of TKA, two attending surgeons were scrubbed in. An additional scrubbed-in attending was not found to be beneficial in terms of surgical time reduction or need for revision surgeries within the postoperative year. This was also true for THAs and for TKAs separately. An attending co-surgeon was associated with a longer hospital stay (p = 0.028). Surgeries performed by fewer surgeons were associated with a shorter surgical time (p = 0.036) and an increased need for blood transfusion (p = 0.033). Neither the rate of intraoperative complications nor revisions differed between groups, regardless of the number of attending surgeons scrubbed in or the total number of surgeons. Conclusion: A surgical team comprised of more than a single attending surgeon in TJAs was not found to reduce surgical time, while the participation of residents was not related with worse patient outcomes. |
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spelling | pubmed-96047372022-10-27 Single Surgeon versus Co-Surgeons in Primary Total Joint Arthroplasty: Does “Two Is Better than One” Apply to Surgeons? Frenkel Rutenberg, Tal Vitenberg, Maria Daglan, Efrat Kadar, Assaf Shemesh, Shai J Pers Med Article Background: As the demand for total joint arthroplasties (TJA) increases steadily, so does the pressure to train future surgeons and, at the same time, achieve optimal outcomes. We aimed to identify differences in operative times and short-term surgical outcomes of TJAs performed by co-surgeons versus a single attending surgeon. Methods: A retrospective analysis of 597 TJAs, including 239 total hip arthroplasties (THAs) and 358 total knee arthroplasties (TKAs) was conducted. All operations were performed by one of four fellowship-trained attending surgeons as the primary surgeon. The assisting surgeons were either attendings or residents. Results: In 51% of THA and in 38% of TKA, two attending surgeons were scrubbed in. An additional scrubbed-in attending was not found to be beneficial in terms of surgical time reduction or need for revision surgeries within the postoperative year. This was also true for THAs and for TKAs separately. An attending co-surgeon was associated with a longer hospital stay (p = 0.028). Surgeries performed by fewer surgeons were associated with a shorter surgical time (p = 0.036) and an increased need for blood transfusion (p = 0.033). Neither the rate of intraoperative complications nor revisions differed between groups, regardless of the number of attending surgeons scrubbed in or the total number of surgeons. Conclusion: A surgical team comprised of more than a single attending surgeon in TJAs was not found to reduce surgical time, while the participation of residents was not related with worse patient outcomes. MDPI 2022-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9604737/ /pubmed/36294821 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jpm12101683 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Frenkel Rutenberg, Tal Vitenberg, Maria Daglan, Efrat Kadar, Assaf Shemesh, Shai Single Surgeon versus Co-Surgeons in Primary Total Joint Arthroplasty: Does “Two Is Better than One” Apply to Surgeons? |
title | Single Surgeon versus Co-Surgeons in Primary Total Joint Arthroplasty: Does “Two Is Better than One” Apply to Surgeons? |
title_full | Single Surgeon versus Co-Surgeons in Primary Total Joint Arthroplasty: Does “Two Is Better than One” Apply to Surgeons? |
title_fullStr | Single Surgeon versus Co-Surgeons in Primary Total Joint Arthroplasty: Does “Two Is Better than One” Apply to Surgeons? |
title_full_unstemmed | Single Surgeon versus Co-Surgeons in Primary Total Joint Arthroplasty: Does “Two Is Better than One” Apply to Surgeons? |
title_short | Single Surgeon versus Co-Surgeons in Primary Total Joint Arthroplasty: Does “Two Is Better than One” Apply to Surgeons? |
title_sort | single surgeon versus co-surgeons in primary total joint arthroplasty: does “two is better than one” apply to surgeons? |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9604737/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36294821 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jpm12101683 |
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