Professional burnout among US plastic surgeons: results of a national survey.

Purpose: Little is known about professional burnout among plastic surgeons. Our purpose is to describe its prevalence among a large national sample of plastic surgeons and identify contributing factors.

Methods: A mailed, self-administered survey was sent to 708 plastic surgeons who were randomly sampled from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons national membership (71% response rate).

Patterns and correlates of postmastectomy breast reconstruction by U.S. Plastic surgeons: results from a national survey.

Background: : Concern exists that plastic surgeons have lost interest in postmastectomy breast reconstruction, which has helped enable the oncoplastic movement by general surgery. The authors evaluated patterns and correlates of postmastectomy breast reconstruction among U.S.

Acute gallbladder torsion - a continued pre-operative diagnostic dilemma.

Acute gallbladder volvulus continues to remain a relatively uncommon process, manifesting itself usually during exploration for an acute surgical abdomen with a presumptive diagnosis of acute cholecystitis. The pathophysiology is that of mechanical organo-axial torsion along the gallbladder's longitudinal axis involving the cystic duct and cystic artery, and with a pre-requisite of local mesenteric redundancy. The demographic tendency is septua- and octo-genarians of the female sex, and its overall incidence is increasing, this being attributed to increasing life expectancy.

Plastic surgeons' satisfaction with work-life balance: results from a national survey.

Background: Plastic surgery demographics are transforming, with a greater proportion of women and younger physicians who desire balance between their career and personal lives compared with previous generations. The authors' purpose was to describe the patterns and correlates of satisfaction with work-life balance among U.S.

Satisfaction with career choice among U.S. plastic surgeons: results from a national survey.

Background: The authors' purpose was to describe patterns and correlates of satisfaction with career choice among U.S. plastic surgeons.

Benchmarking outcomes in plastic surgery: national complication rates for abdominoplasty and breast augmentation.

Background: The authors evaluated the use of national databases to track surgical complications among abdominoplasty and breast augmentation patients.

Methods: Their study population included all patients with abdominoplasty or breast augmentation in the Tracking Operations and Outcomes for Plastic Surgeons (TOPS) and CosmetAssure databases from 2003 to 2007. They evaluated the incidence of hematoma, infection, and/or deep venous thrombosis/pulmonary embolism.