Assessment of Perioperative Outcomes Among Surgeons Who Operated the Night Before

CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: The findings of this cross-sectional study suggest that operating overnight was not associated with worse outcomes for operations performed by surgeons the subsequent day. These results provide reassurance concerning the practice of having attending surgeons take overnight call and still perform operations the following morning.PMID:35604661 | DOI:10.1001/jamainternmed.2022.1563

Source: Pain Physician - May 23, 2022 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Eric C Sun Michelle M Mello Michelle T Vaughn Sachin Kheterpal Mary T Hawn Justin B Dimick Anupam B Jena Source Type: research