Effect of supervised surgical training provided to general surgery residents on clinical maturation of arteriovenous fistula surgery: A retrospective cohort study

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

With the advent of endovascular technique and the emergence of vascular surgery as a separate branch distinct from general surgery, there is a decrease in exposure of open vascular technique to general surgery resident. Vascular access surgery is a vascular subspecialty area and not all residents get similar exposure during training, and this has implications if one becomes a vascular consultant in the future and have to undertake access surgery. There is no established protocol or duration, following which a surgical resident can be named as “trained” in vascular anastomosis. Our study tries to address the aforementioned problems; in particular the actual training that a general surgery resident needs in vascular access.

Objective

To study and compare the ou

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PROVIDER: S-EPMC9577963 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature