Less Surgical Experience Has no Impact on Mortality and Morbidity After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: A Prospective Cohort Analysis

Josephine P Rothman, Jakob Burcharth, Hans-Christian Pommergaard, Linda Bardram, Jacob Rosenberg

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The number of cholecystectomies required to be fully educated as a surgeon has not yet been established. The European Association for Endoscopic Surgery, however, claims that inadequate experience is a risk factor for bile duct injury. The objective was to investigate surgical experience as a risk factor after laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

METHODS: A prospective cohort study using the Danish Cholecystectomy Database to generate a cohort including adults treated with laparoscopic cholecystectomy from 2006 to 2011. The relationship between surgeons' level of experience and outcomes were evaluated.

RESULTS: Surgical inexperience was not a risk factor for mortality and morbidity. The risk of conversion was however higher when the patients were operated by more experienced surgeons with an odds ratio of 1.80 (95% confidence interval, 1.51-2.14). Surgical inexperience was not a risk factor for bile duct injury.

CONCLUSION: We found that low surgical experience did not by itself increase the risk of mortality or morbidity.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftSurgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques
Vol/bind25
Udgave nummer6
Sider (fra-til)492-5
Antal sider4
ISSN1530-4515
StatusUdgivet - 1 dec. 2015

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