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

General Surgery current awareness bulletin

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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)

June 2025

Challenges in pregnancy and lactation among surgical residents and attendings: a systematic review

The effect of social determinants of health on patient outcomes in acute trauma: a systematic review

How teaching surgeons communicate: an analysis of intraoperative discourse among male and female surgeons

Increasing the use of language-concordant discharge instructions in general surgery: a resident-led quality improvement initiative

Individual- versus neighborhood-level social determinants of health-related factors and their associations with postoperative morbidity

The interplay of surgeon judgment and available evidence in the long-term outcome of ventral hernia repair

Intraoperative ultrasound-guided breast-conserving surgery: a performance analysis on the basis of novel cancer lesion classification and patients' cosmetic satisfaction

Long-term outcomes of laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass vs laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy for obesity: the SM-BOSS randomized clinical trial

Management of perforated peptic ulcer: a review

Meta-analysis and systematic review of long-term quality of life and recurrence following elective surgery versus non-operative management for colonic diverticulitis

Perioperative aspirin and coronary artery bypass graft surgery: an updated meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Permanent hypoparathyroidism following total thyroidectomy – incidence and preventative strategies without imaging adjuncts

Postoperative sexual function after vaginal surgery and clitoral size, position, and shape

The prevalence of incontinence after excisional hemorrhoidectomy and stapled hemorrhoidopexy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Preventative interventions for postoperative delirium after intraabdominal surgery – a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials

Robot-assisted surgery for orthopaedic procedures: early value assessment (new NICE guideline HTE22)

Robot-assisted surgery for soft tissue procedures: early value assessment (new NICE guideline HTE21)

Surgical interventions for presbyopia (new Cochrane intervention review)

Trends in use of outpatient minimally-invasive adrenalectomy: a population-based analysis

What affects operating room turnover time? A systematic review and mapping of the evidence

Sources

American Journal of Surgery, The (May); Cochrane Library (Apr); JAMA Surgery (Apr); NICE website (Apr); Surgery 0039-6060 (Apr-May)

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