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2604338

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-2-6
pubmed:abstractText
The emergency surgical workload of a consultant in general surgery has been studied by comparing two prospectively collected audits of 6-month periods 9 years apart. There have been a number of changes in the pattern and intensity of general surgical admissions (excluding trauma) with a decline in the total number per day from 14.1 to 12.4 and a reduction in the number of days on call for general surgery from 30 to 14 over the 6-month period. There was a similar fall in days on call for trauma from 60 to 23 days and a decline in total emergency surgical operations from 6.6 to 5.2 operations per night on call. These changes have mainly been produced by an increase in the number of consultants in the hospital from five to eight and specialisation with the establishment of an area urology unit. The results of this study suggest that as consultant numbers increase in a particular area there will be diminished exposure of surgical trainees to emergency cases both in quantity and in quality, and this loss of experience will prove deleterious to the trainee surgeon.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0035-8843
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
71
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
341-3
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
Changes in emergency surgery between 1973 and 1982: audit of the workload of one surgical team.
pubmed:affiliation
Leicester Royal Infirmary.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article