Sleep deprivation among surgical residents: Does it affect performance while practising a laparoscopic intestinal anastomosis?

Introduction: To assess the impact of fatigue due to incorrect night rest in the performance of a laparoscopic manual anastomosis.

Methods: A prospective study evaluating the results from the realization of a manual endotrainer entero-enteral anastomosis performed by residents in terms of fatigue caused by inadequate nightly rest. Two groups were established; the FATIGUE group (F): anastomosis performed by residents coming off shift who slept less than seven hours and the REST group(R), being those who slept at home for more than 7 h.

Sleep deprivation among surgical residents: does it affect performance while practising a laparoscopic intestinal anastomosis?

Introduction: To assess the impact of fatigue due to incorrect night rest in the performance of a laparoscopic manual anastomosis.

Methods: A prospective study evaluating the results from the realization of a manual endotrainer entero-enteral anastomosis performed by residents in terms of fatigue caused by inadequate nightly rest. Two groups were established; the fatigue group (F): anastomosis performed by residents coming off shift who slept less than seven hours and the rest group (R), being those who slept at home for more than 7 hours.

Predicting factors for the diagnosis of gangrene acute cholecystitis.

Background: Gangrenous cholecystitis (GC) must be promptly treated for its high morbimortality. The object of our study is to identify clinical, laboratory or ultrasound factors that might us diagnose GC.

Method: A Retrospective cohort study is devised including all patients admitted to Hospital de Laredo (Cantabria, Spain) between 2015 and 2017 with the diagnose of acute cholecystitis and having been operated.

Purulent pericarditis after liver abscess: a case report.

We present the case of a 49-year-old woman, with previous clinical antecedents of recent hepatic metastasis, who was admitted to the ICU due to respiratory failure and hemodynamic instability. She was found to have purulent pericarditis complicated by pericardial tamponade and pleural effusion, as well as surgical site infection, which was the origin of the disease. Cultures of the surgical wound and the pericardial effusion were positive for Enterococcus faecalis and Escherichia coli.