Effect of Operating Room Personnel Generation on Perceptions and Responses to Surgeon Behavior.

Background: Little is known regarding the impact of operating room (OR) personnel generation on their perceptions to various surgeon behaviors. We aimed to characterize these relationships by evaluating their responses to 5 realistic intraoperative scenarios.

Methods: Operating room personnel were asked to assess surgeon OR behavior across a standardized set of 5 scenarios via an online survey.

Establishing expert consensus for the optimal approach to holistic risk-management in pulmonary arterial hypertension: a Delphi process and narrative review.

: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is associated with significant morbidity and reduced life expectancy. Various medical therapies, together with non-medical therapies such as exercise training, have been shown to improve outcomes for patients. We performed a Delphi consensus process to establish optimal approaches to optimizing patient care.

Predictors of the response of operating room personnel to surgeon behaviors.

Purpose: Several studies have assessed the physician-nurse relationship, particularly between females working together. While the surgeon workforce is increasingly represented by females, gendered relationships and biases in the operating room remain largely unstudied.

Methods: We performed a prospective randomized study in which operative support staff, including nurses, surgical technologists, and surgical assistants, assessed scenarios describing questionable surgeon behaviors.

Robot assisted transaxillary surgery (RATS) for the removal of thyroid and parathyroid glands.

Background: Robotic assisted transaxillary surgery (RATS) is a minimally invasive approach for the removal of the thyroid and/or parathyroid glands through the axilla. This anatomically directed technique, popularized by Chung, eliminates a visible scar and affords excellent high definition optics of the cervical anatomy. We report an initial series of single access RATS in the U.