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

Annals of Surgery

Left Lobe First With Purely Laparoscopic Approach: A Novel Strategy to Maximize Donor Safety in Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation

Propranolol Normalizes Metabolomic Signatures Thereby Improving Outcomes After Burn

Propensity-Score Matched Analysis of Three Years Survival of Trans Carotid Artery Revascularization Versus Carotid Endarterectomy in the Vascular Quality Initiative Medicare-Linked Database

Patient-reported Adverse Events During Neoadjuvant Therapy in a Phase 2 Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Cancer Clinical Trial (Alliance A021501)

British Journal of Surgery

 Prediction of postoperative complications after oesophagectomy using machine-learning methods

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Surgical Endoscopy

Knowledge, perceptions and behaviours of endoscopists towards the use of artificial intelligence-aided colonoscopy

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Impact of Postoperative Antibiotic Prophylaxis on Surgical Site Infections Rates After Mastectomy with Drains but Without Immediate Reconstruction: A Multicenter, Double-Blinded, Randomized Control Superiority Trial

Obesity Surgery

Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass as Conversion Procedure of Failed Gastric Banding: Short-Term Outcomes of 1295 Patients in One Single Center

International Journal of Surgery

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Leadership and Impostor Syndrome in Surgery

Low-Impact Laparoscopy vs Conventional Laparoscopy for Appendectomy: A Prospective Randomized Trial

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Incidence, outcomes and costs of severe sepsis and septic shock in geriatric trauma patients: Analysis of 2,563,463 hospitalizations at 3,284 hospitals

The American Journal of Surgery

Efficacy and safety of ilioinguinal neurectomy in open tension-free inguinal hernia repair: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

World Journal of surgery

Risk Factors and Management of Blunt Inferior Vena Cava Injury: A Retrospective Study