Open Access'Hot gall bladder service' by emergency general surgeons: Is this safe and feasible?
Author(s) -
Mohammad Imtiaz,
Samip Prakash,
Sara Iqbal,
Roland Fernandes,
Ankur Shah,
Ashish Shrestha,
Sanjoy Basu
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of minimal access surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0972-9941
pISSN - 1998-3921
DOI - 10.4103/jmas.jmas_271_20
Subject(s) - medicine , cholecystitis , observational study , general surgery , pancreatitis , surgery , nice , cholecystectomy , gallbladder , computer science , programming language
Despite NICE/AUGIS recommendations, the practice of early laparoscopic cholecystectomy (ELC) has been particularly poor in the UK offered only by 11%-20% surgeons as compared to 33%-67% internationally, possibly due to financial constraints, logistical difficulties and shortage of expertise, thus, reflecting the varied provision of emergency general surgical care. To assess whether emergency general surgeons (EGS) could provide a 'Hot Gall Bladder Service' (HGS) with an acceptable outcome.