Authors: L W Traverso K P Koo K Hargrave S W Unger T S Roush L L Swanstrom M S Woods J H Donohue D J Deziel I B Simon E Froines J Hunter N J Soper
Publish Date: 2014/03/19
Volume: 11, Issue: 3, Pages: 226-229
Abstract
Background Most of the expense of laparoscopic cholecystectomy LC is incurred while the patient is in the operating room OR Half of this operating room cost is equipment and the other half is personnel What is an acceptable LC procedure time and how much variation is there What are the effects of age gender and expertise on the mean LC procedure timeMethods A prospective multicenter gathering of LC procedure times and task component times was performed through the cooperative effort of members of the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons SAGES at 11 hospitals The effect of LC time of age gender and surgical resident was recordedResults The mean LC time for 359 cases was 73 ± 28 min The percent of this LC time for the following component tasks included to place and remove trocars 34 total dissection time 40 intraoperative cholangiogram 15 and removing the gallbladder 7 Age and gender did not change LC time but the presence of a surgical resident prolonged LC time from 53 to 79 min due to an increase in all LC component task times
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