Utility of the Parkland Grading Scale to determine intraoperative challenges during laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a validation study on 206 patients at an academic medical center in Nepal

CONCLUSION: Parkland Grading Scale system is a reliable intra-operative grading system to assess the difficulty in laparoscopic cholecystectomy and helps the surgeon to change the strategy of surgery. An increase in scale is associated with an increased difficulty level of the surgery.PMID:37226189 | PMC:PMC10207752 | DOI:10.1186/s13037-023-00364-x

Source: Patient Safety in Surgery - May 24, 2023 Category: Surgery Authors: Anup Shrestha Abhishek Bhattarai Kishor Kumar Tamrakar Manoj Chand Samjhana Yonjan Tamang Sampada Adhikari Harish Chandra Neupane Source Type: research