Critical surgical errors by junior fellows and trainees in low rectal cancer surgery: How to overcome?(A cross-sectional study).

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Technical difficulties are usually reported in low rectal cancer (LRC) surgery. Moreover inadvertent surgical errors could happen mostly due to lack of experience of the assisting surgeons. Unfortunately, these errors may end up with raising a permanent stoma. In this study we are reporting seven inadvertent surgical mishaps during surgeries for LRC which resulted in failure of the planned circular end to end anastomosis and how we approached them by different salvage techniques.

Patients and methods

All surgical mistakes were salvaged by two of our senior consultants with intraoperative decision to shift to another approach to attain intestinal continuity. Two patients had direct handswen coloanal anastomosis, three received colon pull through and two with redo stapled

SUBMITTER: Elghamrini Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7889430 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature