Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8659384 | European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery | 2018 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Employing an assistant surgeon does not improve outcomes amongst any quintile of volume of the lead surgeon. As surgeons perform fewer open AAA repairs in the modern era, these data imply that even the help of a high volume assistant surgeon may not mitigate the detrimental effect of a lower volume surgeon.
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Authors
Sarah E. Deery, Thomas F.X. O'Donnell, Sara L. Zettervall, Jeremy D. Darling, Katie E. Shean, A. James O'Malley, Bruce E. Landon, Marc L. Schermerhorn,