This Week in Surgery we will be discussing articles published in October 2023 issues:

Annals of Surgery

What Happens on Call Doesn’t Stay on Call. The Effects of In-house Call on Acute Care Surgeons’ Sleep and Burnout: Results of the Surgeon Performance (SuPer) Trial

Young-onset Rectal Cancer: Unique Tumoral Microbiome and Correlation With Response to Neoadjuvant Therapy

Implementation of Entrustable Professional Activities in General Surgery: Results of a National Pilot Study

Increased Preoperative Stress Test Utilization is Not Associated With Reduced Adverse Cardiac Events in Current US Surgical Practice

  JAMA Surgery

Association Between Markers of Structural Racism and Mass Shooting Events in Major US Cities

Outcomes for High-Risk Surgical Procedures Across High- and Low-Competition Hospital Markets

Intraoperative Identification of Thyroid and Parathyroid Tissues During Human Endocrine Surgery Using the MasSpec Pen

British Journal of Surgery

Predictive value of baseline serum carbohydrate antigen 19-9 level on treatment effect of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in patients with resectable and borderline resectable pancreatic cancer in two randomized trials

 Journal of Vascular Surgery

Postoperative acute kidney injury after thoracic endovascular aortic repair for acute type B aortic dissection

 Surgical Endoscopy

Timing and management of bleeding after bariatric surgery

Annals of Surgical Oncology

A Randomized Trial Comparing the Effectiveness of Pre-test Genetic Counseling Using an Artificial Intelligence Automated Chatbot and Traditional In-person Genetic Counseling in Women Newly Diagnosed with Breast Cancer

Obesity Surgery

Long-term Follow-up 15 Years After Duodenal Switch or Gastric Bypass for Super Obesity: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Early Postoperative Fever and Atelectasis in Patients Undergoing Upper Abdominal Surgery

Outcomes of Targeted Muscle Reinnervation and Regenerative Peripheral Nerve Interfaces for Chronic Pain Control in the Oncologic Amputee Population

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Does lower extremity fracture fixation technique influence neurologic outcomes in patients with traumatic brain injury? The EAST Brain vs. Bone multicenter trial

The American Journal of Surgery

 Rectal cancer without response to neoadjuvant treatment - Do not wait for surgery

World Journal of surgery

Outpatient Non-operative Management of Uncomplicated Acute Appendicitis: A Non-inferiority Study