Emergency intraoperative vascular surgery consultations at a tertiary academic center.

Objective: Vascular surgeons are frequently called on to provide emergency assistance to surgical colleagues. Whereas previous studies have included elective preoperative vascular consultations, we sought to characterize the breadth of assistance provided during unplanned intraoperative consultations at a single tertiary academic center.

Methods: We queried our institutional billing department during a 15-year period and reviewed the records (January 1, 2002-December 31, 2016) and identified unanticipated unplanned vascular surgery intraoperative consultations from all surgical services.

Parathyroid surgery can be safely performed in a community hospital by experienced parathyroid surgeons: A retrospective cohort study.

Background: There is ongoing debate about the effectiveness and safety of performing parathyroid surgery in low-volume community hospitals.

Study Design/methods: Cases performed at community hospital by a group of 4 parathyroid surgeons (group 1) were reviewed. Cure and complication rates were analyzed in light of outcomes of an expert endocrine surgeon from high-volume academic center (group 2) as point of reference.