Genitourinary Surgical Workload at Deployed U.S. Facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan, 2002-2016.

Conclusions: All deploying surgeons may be required to evaluate, stage, and surgically manage genitourinary, gynecologic, and obstetrical conditions. Surgery on the male genitalia, bladder, and kidney were the most commonly required genitourinary operative procedures in deployed facilities; therefore, non-urological surgeons should receive pre-deployment training in these techniques. The workload data from our study can be used to help guide the development of pre-deployment training to ensure military surgeons have the skills to perform the specialty procedures required while deployed. PMID: 29901722 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Military Medicine - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Mil Med Source Type: research