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ANASTOMOSIS: A CRAFT WORKSHOP FOR SURGICAL TRAINEES
Author(s) -
Allen P. I. M.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1990.tb07510.x
Subject(s) - medicine , apprenticeship , tying , knot tying , craft , surgery , surgical procedures , general surgery , medical education , philosophy , linguistics , computer science , operating system , archaeology , history
Surgery is a very resonal exercise and no two surgeons use an identical technique. Traditionally, operative expertise has been acquired through a system of apprenticeships. Pettigrew has shown that operative performance is the main factor in determining postoperative complications and therefore the length of hospital stay, and surgical journals have recently returned to technique as a topic of debate. 1‐4 Certain skills, such as knot tying, can be learned procedures, including fracture fixation. 5,6 This article describes an anatomosis workshop held in New Zealandrecently for general surgical traminees