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HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: General Surgery

General Surgery current awareness bulletin

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December 2025

Advancements in neurosurgical techniques for managing sports-related traumatic brain injuries

Artificial intelligence–augmented human instruction and surgical simulation performance: a randomized clinical trial

Does one session suffice? Evaluation of single-session ethanol ablation for thyroid cysts of varying sizes

An evaluation of emergency general surgery 30-day readmissions: are they preventable?

Exploring the role of quality of life in surgical decision making for patients undergoing pancreatectomy

Fluorescence-guided surgery for assessing margins in head and neck cancer: a review

Giving back to the community: outcomes from a free hernia repair program

Impact of surgeon race, ethnicity, and gender on perceptions of professional behavior in the operating room

The impact of work-related pain on surgical team members’ burnout and personal and professional performance

Intraoperative contrast-enhanced ultrasonography in pediatric surgeries: a review of techniques, applications, and outcomes

Laparoscopic management of acute abdominal emergencies

Management of upper gastrointestinal perforations

A meta-analysis of the timing of endovascular repair for blunt thoracic aortic injury: safety and efficacy of early vs. delayed treatment

Open anterior mesh repair vs modified open anterior mesh repair for groin hernia in women

Optimal port site skin closure method following minimally-invasive surgery: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials

Pain relief after surgical neurolysis in Gazan patients with peripheral nerve injuries: a report amidst the ongoing conflict

Pectus arcuatum definitions, diagnostics, and surgical guidelines: a systematic review

Peer and patient feedback to increase adherence to postoperative opioid prescribing guidelines: a stepped-wedge cluster randomized clinical trial

Redrawing the surgical line: the role of female surgeon mentorship in shaping female medical students’ perceptions of surgery

Robotic assisted surgery reduces ergonomic risk during minimally invasive inguinal hernia repair: the VOLTAIRE randomised controlled trial

Rizedisben in minimally invasive surgery: a nonrandomized clinical trial

Tracheobronchial replacement: a systematic review

Transoral endoscopic and minimally invasive thyroidectomy

Trauma laparotomy and damage control surgery

Sources

American Journal of Surgery (Oct-Dec); JAMA Surgery (Aug-Nov); Journal of Clinical Ultrasound (Nov/Dec); Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery (Oct); Surgery-Oxford (Sep-Oct)

October 2025

Abdominal binders after abdominal surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Bed frames for adults in acute medical or surgical hospital wards: late-stage assessment (new NICE guidance HTE33)

Clinical outcomes of laparoscopic vs robotic-assisted cholecystectomy in acute care surgery

Early versus late tracheostomy in people with multiple trauma (new Cochrane intervention review)

Facilitating use of same-day discharge after appendectomy in children: implementation of an evidence-based post-operative pathway

Familiarity of the surgeon-anesthesiologist dyad and major morbidity after high-risk elective surgery

Incidence, reasons, and mortality risk of ICU readmission in surgical patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Nutrition in paediatric surgical patients

Operating room personnel perspectives on sustainable practices in the operative environment

Peculiarities of diagnosis and management for subhepatic appendicitis

Postoperative nausea and vomiting in children: challenges and some solutions

Prophylactic drain placement after emergency general surgery procedures? A scoping review of the literature challenging common practice

Providing equitable surgical care to patients in law enforcement custody: a review

Racial disparities in the management of gallstone pancreatitis: deviations from standard of care

Reassessing the association between HIV status and post-operative complications in the modern era

Risk factors for surgical site infection in patients after hysterectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Role of preoperative antibiotic treatment while awaiting appendectomy: the PERFECT-Antibiotics randomized clinical trial

Smokers with Crohn's face worse surgical outcomes: a 90-day perioperative analysis

Social support can mitigate socioeconomic disparities in trauma patients

Surgical health policy 2025–35: strengthening essential services for tomorrow's needs

Surgical management of gastro-oesophageal reflux in children

Sources

American Journal of Surgery, The (Sep-in progress); Anesthesia & Analgesia (Jul); Cochrane Library (Aug-Sep); JAMA Surgery (Jul); Journal of Hospital Infection (Sep); Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health (Aug-Dec); NEJM (Aug); NICE website (Jul-Aug); Surgery-Oxford (Aug)

August 2025

Association between surgeon age and surgical complications: a systematic review and meta-analysis

The bidirectional interplay between gut dysbiosis and surgical complications: a systematic review

A comparative meta-analysis of povidone–iodine–alcohol vs. chlorhexidine–alcohol for preoperative skin antisepsis in abdominal surgery

Conversion to open surgery in laparoscopic approach of adhesive small bowel obstruction: predictive factors and its impact on short-term outcomes

Foley catheter management: a review

How will robots help US surgeons?

Implicit racial bias and unintentional harm in vascular care

Laparoscopic approach to cholecystoenteric fistula: a single-centre experience and systematic review

Laparoscopic insertion of an inactive implant for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (new NICE guideline IPG803)

Long-term postoperative outcomes by surgeon gender and patient-surgeon gender concordance in the US

Lymphadenectomy or sentinel node biopsy for the management of endometrial cancer (new Cochrane intervention review)

Major adverse cardiac events after gastric bypass vs sleeve gastrectomy

Minimally invasive surgery for acute groin hernias: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Outcomes of bariatric surgery in adolescents: a meta-analysis comparing three surgical techniques

Peritoneal drainage versus laparotomy as initial treatment for surgical necrotising enterocolitis or spontaneous intestinal perforation in preterm very low birth weight infants (updated Cochrane intervention review)

Regional analgesia techniques for postoperative pain after breast cancer surgery: a network meta‐analysis (new Cochrane intervention review)

Stapler versus scalpel resection followed by handsewn closure of the pancreatic remnant for distal pancreatectomy (updated Cochrane intervention review)

Survival and cost-effectiveness of bariatric surgery among patients with obesity and cirrhosis

Targeted muscle reinnervation for managing limb amputation pain (new NICE guideline IPG804)

Tumor molecular signatures: bridging the bench and the operating room

Sources

American Journal of Surgery, The (Jun-Aug); BMJ, The (Jun); Cochrane Library (Jun); JAMA Surgery (May-Jun); NICE website (Jun)

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