Cognition, part of surgical competence, employs forward planning, error prevention, and orchestration of technical skills. Thus, an understanding of mental processes used by experts throughout patient...
Based on data from a priori cognitive task analyses, literary sources, and field observations of breast augmentation surgery and flexor tendon repair, task lists were produced for each procedure. Two ...
Five distinct cognitive competency domains were identified from the literature applicable to plastic surgery: situation awareness, decision-making, task management, leadership, and communication and t...
Cognitive competencies in different settings in plastic surgery are introduced using a comparative study of two mental models of distinct procedures to guide the teaching and assessment of such compet...
Little information is available regarding how to review a plastic surgery manuscript. This vital responsibility ensures that publications meet an acceptable scientific standard. Thoughtful and thoroug...
Surgical robots have innovated the microsurgical field by providing advantages that improve surgical performance. These robots have been adopted by certain specialties more than others. This study dis...
This study is a literature review of articles investigating "robotic microsurgery in plastic and reconstructive surgery" using the PubMed database and the Cochrane Library....
A total of nineteen relevant articles were found and 5 articles performed a direct comparison between the robotic and manual approaches. Longer operating times were reported in the robotic groups feat...
While the results provide an outlook into the outcome of robotic platforms in this field, current research is limited and further studies are required to provide a fundamental analysis....
Cosmetic and reconstructive surgery has existed in many forms since antiquity, but it was the impulse given by the Great War that gave birth to plastic and cosmetic surgery as we know it today. After ...
You only get one opportunity to make a first impression. In today's era, that first impression is frequently a digital one. The authors' old digital brand "face" was stale and not a true representatio...
This article details the steps the authors took to launch a new website, generate collateral branded material, and execute a social media marketing plan. The authors attempt to keep the outline genera...
Samples of "creative" products are shown. Quantifiable outcomes were direct website traffic (91% increase), website sessions (82% increase), unique users (55% increase), page views (118% increase), an...
This article outlines steps the authors took to rebrand their practice in the face of current challenges in the plastic surgery landscape and how prospective patients seek surgeons. Benchmarking the s...
Surgical wide resection is the mainstay of treatment of sarcomas, but the advent of multimodality therapy has improved outcomes and the rates of limb-sparing resection. Often, wounds are unable to be ...
Sushruta who lived in India sometime between 1000 and 800 BC is traditionally recognized for being the "Father of Plastic Surgery." However, "plastic surgery" has been performed much earlier in antiqu...
Crowdsourcing uses online platforms to collect large data from laypersons and has been increasingly used over the past 5 years to answer questions about aesthetic and functional outcomes following pla...
A systematic search strategy was developed with a licensed librarian and attending plastic surgeon to query all articles using crowdsourcing in plastic and reconstructive surgery. Covidence systematic...
A search run on October 8, 2021, yielded 168 studies, of which 45 were ultimately included. Craniofacial surgery and aesthetic surgery collectively constituted over half of studies. Participants in pl...
Crowdsourcing is a relatively new, low-cost method of garnering high-volume data from laypersons that may further our understanding of public perception in plastic and reconstructive surgery. As with ...
Understanding country differences in production and human capital in plastic surgery research is crucial in identifying current and future leaders in the field. In this study, we document each country...
A web scraping algorithm was deployed on PubMed to retrieve information on every publication and every first author in 10 major research outlets in plastic surgery between 2015 and 2021. Each country'...
We find that over the studied period, two countries, the USA and China, are represented in roughly 50% and 45% of global research output and first authors, respectively, in plastic surgery. Specifical...
Our findings reveal the clear dominance of the USA in plastic surgery research production. No specific US State stands out in the nation as much as the USA does in the global ranking of plastic surger...
This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Inst...
Vitamin D plays a crucial role in various biological processes, including the well-known regulation of the immune system and calcium metabolism. While its involvement in the surgical outcomes of vario...
prospective and observational cohort study, conducted from October 2021 to August 2023 at the Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, involving 83 patients....
vitamin D levels were deemed deficient in 7 (8,4%) patients, insufficient in 36 (43,4%), and sufficient in 40 (48,2%). No direct association was demonstrated between deficient or insufficient serum le...
preoperative hypovitaminosis D was not associated with complications in plastic surgery....
