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Best Papers in General Surgery
The five that matter, every day.
Quality of Life Recovery After Hepatectomy for Liver Metastasis
Postoperative health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) significantly improves in patients undergoing hepatectomy for high-risk colorectal liver metastases if they remain disease-free.
Opioid Agreements Fail to Reduce Leftover Meds After Surgery
A study shows opioid agreements don’t improve disposal or safety practices post-surgery.
Compliance with Cancer Standard Improves Rectal Surgery Outcomes
Facility adherence to Commission on Cancer Standard 5.7 is linked to better surgical quality in rectal cancer.
Gastric Ultrasound Post Gastrointestinal Surgery Shows Promise
Gastric point-of-care ultrasound (G-POCUS) can improve postoperative assessments for gastrointestinal surgery patients.
Trauma-team actions improve major trauma definition
A new definition of major trauma that combines injury severity with urgent trauma-team interventions identified more high-risk patients and deaths than injury scoring alone.
IVC Filter Use Varies Widely in Trauma Care
In severely injured trauma patients, higher hospital use of inferior vena cava filters did not improve survival and was linked to more thromboembolic events.
Prophylactic Insulin Improves Glycemia in Major Surgery
In nondiabetic patients undergoing major abdominopelvic surgery, prophylactic glucose-insulin-potassium infusion was feasible and improved perioperative glucose control without severe hypoglycemia.
Antireflux surgery holds up in severe obesity
In 2,388 patients undergoing fundoplication or magnetic sphincter augmentation for reflux disease, body mass index of 35 or higher did not worsen symptom relief, medication independence, or five-year durability.
Conversion drainage matches primary in acute cholecystitis
For high-risk patients with acute cholecystitis, conversion to endoscopic ultrasound-guided gallbladder drainage after percutaneous drainage achieved outcomes comparable to primary drainage.