Contradicting an established mantra: microsurgeon experience determines free flap outcome.

Abstract:

BACKGROUND:Since the inception and popularization of microsurgery in the 1960s and 1970s, it has been commonly accepted that the outcome of free tissue transfer directly correlates with surgeon experience. METHODS:The clinical outcomes of three young microsurgeons at a single institution were retrospectively reviewed. Free flaps performed by these individuals were categorized according to the surgeon's years of practice and analyzed using statistical methods. RESULTS:A total of 410 free flaps were identified. No correlation was found between the surgeon's years of experience and the outcomes measured. CONCLUSIONS:There has been increased exposure to microsurgery during plastic surgery training at many programs, and consequently, residents have often already surpassed the learning curve. The imperfect correlation between experience and superior outcomes in medicine serves to suggest that further research in the specific underlying principles of surgical learning is needed to understand the relationship between experience and superior surgical outcomes.

journal_name

Plast Reconstr Surg

authors

Kreymerman P,Silverman AL,Rebecca AM,Casey WJ

doi

10.1097/PRS.0b013e318262efdf

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2012-10-01 00:00:00

pages

507e-512e

issue

4

eissn

0032-1052

issn

1529-4242

pii

00006534-201210000-00003

journal_volume

130

pub_type

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