Patient outcomes following carotid endarterectomy are not adversely affected by surgical trainees' operative involvement: A retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Surgical training is an increasingly controversial topic. Concerns have been raised about both training opportunities becoming scarcer and poorer outcomes in operations led by surgical trainees; despite the evidence base for this being mixed. This retrospective cohort study aims to compare outcomes following carotid endarterectomy in patients who were operated on by a surgical trainee to those operated on by consultants.

Materials and methods

Consecutive patients, who underwent carotid endarterectomy between 01/06/2012 and 1/12/2016, were entered into a prospectively maintained database. Patients were grouped according to whether a consultant or trainee vascular surgeon was the lead operating surgeon. Outcomes were 30-day mortality, 30-day stroke rate, operation t

SUBMITTER: Brown LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6357689 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature