Journal of the American College of Surgeons
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Randomized Controlled Trial
A double-blinded, prospective randomized controlled trial of intraperitoneal bupivacaine in laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.
Intraperitoneal local anesthetics have been investigated in several laparoscopic procedures that demonstrate improved postoperative pain control and reduced length of hospital stay. No published studies to date address the effectiveness of IP local anesthetics in laparoscopic gastric bypass patients (LRYGB). ⋯ IPB use during LRYGB revealed a statistically significant difference only in postoperative oral narcotic use. Possibly, the IPB can limit or prevent peritoneal irritation and reduce the need for longer narcotic use. Clinical significance was not demonstrated by our outcomes variables.
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Review
Surgical council on resident education: a new organization devoted to graduate surgical education.
The Surgical Council on Resident Education (SCORE) is a voluntary consortium of six organizations with responsibility for resident education in surgery and an interest in improving the training of surgeons. The founding organizations are the American Board of Surgery (ABS), the American College of Surgeons (ACS), the American Surgical Association (ASA), the Association of Program Directors in Surgery (APDS), the Association for Surgical Education (ASE), and the Residency Review Committee for Surgery of the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (RRC-S). SCORE emerged from a concerted desire to strengthen the graduate education of surgeons and to assure the competence of surgical trainees in the US. ⋯ In the future, SCORE plans to examine issues such as the assessment of technical competency, the role of simulation in surgical education, the teaching and assessment of professional behaviors, the practicing surgeon's view of the adequacy of residency training, faculty development, and the attrition of residents from surgery residencies. Members of SCORE intend to investigate best practices in surgical education in other countries. SCORE hopes to take a leadership position in improving the quality of surgical education and surgery in the US.
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Improving surgical quality of care requires accurate reporting of postoperative complications. ⋯ Our prospective surgical complication database accurately characterized outcomes after PD and facilitated information gathering and analysis. The accuracy, efficiency, and reproducibility of a prospective surgical complication database favor its widespread use in postoperative complication reporting.