This Week in Surgery we will be discussing recently published articles :

 Annals of Surgery

Implementing Enhanced Recovery Pathways: A Qualitative Study of Factors That Distinguished Higher Performing Hospitals

Neuropathic Pain After Burn Injury: A Severe and Common Problem in Recovery

Association Between Whole Blood Transfusion and Mortality Among Injured Pediatric Patients

Two Days Versus Five Days of Postoperative Antibiotics for Complex Appendicitis: Cost Analysis of a Randomized, Noninferiority Trial

Two Days Versus Five Days of Postoperative Antibiotics for Complex Appendicitis: Cost Analysis of a Randomized, Noninferiority Trial

  Journal of American Medical Association  Surgery

Plastic Wound Protector vs Surgical Gauze for Surgical Site Infection Reduction in Open GI Surgery

 British Journal of Surgery

 Cachexia index for prognostication in surgical patients with locally advanced oesophageal or gastric cancer: multicentre cohort study 

 Journal of Vascular Surgery

Socioeconomic factors predict successful supervised exercise therapy completion

Frailty screening for determination of hemodialysis access placement

Short-term mortality and revisions to promote maturation after arteriovenous fistula creation

Characterization of long-term survival in Medicare patients undergoing arteriovenous hemodialysis access

Multicenter parallel randomized trial evaluating incisional negative pressure wound therapy for the prevention of surgical site infection after lower extremity bypass

Cryopreserved arterial allografts vs autologous vein for arterial reconstruction in infected fields

 Surgical Endoscopy

The association between microvascular and macrovascular diseases and diabetes remission after bariatric surgery

Regional anaesthesia for postoperative pain management following laparoscopic, visceral, non-oncological surgery a systematic review and meta-analysis

Quality indicators for ambulatory colectomy: literature search and expert consensus

  Annals of Surgical Oncology

Early Versus Late Drainage Removal in Patients Who Underwent Pancreaticoduodenectomy: A Comprehensive Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials Using Trial Sequential Analysis

Comparison of Octreotide and Vasopressors as First-Line Treatment for Intraoperative Carcinoid Crisis

Long-Term Outcome of Proximal Gastrectomy for Upper-Third Advanced Gastric and Siewert Type II Esophagogastric Junction Cancer Compared With Total Gastrectomy: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis

Laparoscopic Left Hepatectomy for Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma

  Journal of the American College of Surgeons  

Artificial Intelligence to Predict Quality-of-Life Outcomes for Vascular Intervention of the Leg

The Kidney Not Taken: Single-Kidney Use in Deceased Donors

Early Cholecystectomy in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease with Uncomplicated Cholelithiasis Is Associated with Better Outcomes

Surrogate Perception of Disability after Hospitalization for Traumatic Brain Injury

Empiric Cryoprecipitate Transfusion in Patients with Severe Hemorrhage: Results from the US Experience in the International CRYOSTAT-2 Trial

Transition to Permitless Open Carry and Association with Firearm-Related Suicide

Race and Ethnic Group Enrollment and Outcomes for Wilms Tumor: Analysis of the Current Era Children’s Oncology Group Study, AREN03B2

 Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Tranexamic acid is not associated with a higher rate of thrombotic-related reintervention after major vascular injury repair

The value of chest radiography after chest tube removal in nonventilated trauma patients: A post hoc analysis of a multicenter prospective cohort study

Developing a National Trauma Research Action Plan: Results from the regulatory challenges Delphi survey

 The American Journal of Surgery

Cribari, does it apply in real time? An analysis of a community level 1 trauma center

Locally advanced pancreatic cancer: Is surgical palliation associated with improved clinical outcome relative to medical palliation?

Outcomes following cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) for peritoneal malignancies: 10 ​Year experience

 World Journal of surgery

Race and sex diversity in Canadian academic surgical societies

Preventable deaths in hospitalized trauma patients

Ultrasound-guided vacuum-assisted excision for idiopathic granulomatous mastitis at the abscess stage

Surgical prevalence and outcomes in ischemic colitis: A systematic review and meta-analysis