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Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Annals of Surgery Journal Club: Ergonomics

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Education

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Join us for our 11th joint Journal Club with Annals of Surgery. In this episode, Dr. Francesco Squizzato, vascular surgeon at the University of Padova in Italy, joins us to discuss his randomized clinical trial "A Preventive Program for Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders Among Surgeons." Access the paper free of charge here: https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Abstract/publishahead/A_Preventive_Program_for_Work_related.95252.aspx If you want to try some of the exercises, you can learn about them here: http://links.lww.com/SLA/B570

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0:36.1

from leaders in our series. Welcome back to Behind the Knife.

0:53.0

Continuing in our series of the Annals of Surgery Journal Club,

0:57.0

we have as our guest Dr. Francesco Squizato.

1:00.0

He is a vascular surgeon at the University of Padova in Italy and he joins us today to talk about his paper about surgical ergonomics.

1:11.6

Curran, why don't you give us a summary of the paper?

1:14.0

Sure so the authors Dr. Scusato and Sylvia Gio and their team conducted a multi-centered

1:19.5

randomized trial of a comprehensive prevention program for work-related musculoskeletal injuries among a diverse group of surgeons in Italy.

1:27.0

These cluster randomizations, so they randomized six surgical divisions across three hospitals for a total of 141 study participants and they had a two-pronged

1:36.6

intervention. Part one of the intervention was modifying the work environment in the

1:41.1

operating room according to ergonomic principles.

1:43.2

In part two of the intervention was teaching surgeons a series of

1:46.0

exercise to do before and after their cases.

1:48.6

They also, as part of the study, did some logistic regressions

1:51.4

to measure risk factors for work-related musculoskeletal disorders at baseline.

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