Annals of Surgery- Kaafarani et al.

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🗓️ 9 September 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This is the second episode of our journal club series with Annals of Surgery. In this episode, Dr. Kaafarani will discuss his recent paper "Surgical Risk Is Not Linear: Derivation and Validation of a Novel, User-friendly, and Machine-learning-based Predictive OpTimal Trees in Emergency Surgery Risk (POTTER) Calculator," presented at the 2018 meeting of the American Surgical Association and recently published in Annals of Surgery.

The full text is currently available online, free of charge for Behind the Knife listeners: https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Abstract/publishahead/Surgical_Risk_Is_Not_Linear___Derivation_and.95426.aspx Episode hosts: Shreya Gupta (@shrey3467), Meghana Kashyap (@pubMEG), Karan Chhabra (@krchhabra)

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0:00.0	Behind the Knife, The Surgery Podcast, where we take a behind the scenes intimate look at
0:05.4	surgery from leaders in the field.
0:07.0	So welcome to another episode of Behind the Knife, the Surgery Podcast.
0:18.6	Today we are continuing our Journal Club series with annals of surgery and in discussion today we have with us Dr.
0:26.8	Kaffarani.
0:27.8	Dr Kaffarani did his medical college in American University of Barrett, followed by his residency at Tufts and University of
0:35.6	South Florida, and fellowship in trauma critical care at the MGH.
0:40.5	Dr. Kaffarani is an associate professor of surgery, director of clinical research, as well as director of patient safety and quality at the Mass General Hospital.
0:51.0	Today we will be discussing his most recent research work on the novel
0:55.9	risk calculator in surgery. Thank you so much for joining us today at Behind the
1:01.4	Knife Dr. Kofrani, and welcome.
1:03.4	Thank you, I'm glad to be here.
1:06.2	So this is Korn again, and I'd like to, Dr Kofrani is here to discuss with us his new paper,
1:12.0	presented at the American
1:12.9	Surgical Associations Conference in 2018 titled
1:16.1	Surgical Risk is not Linear Derivation and validation of a novel user
1:20.4	friendly and machine learning based predictive optimal trees and emergency surgery risk calculator also
1:26.7	on this Potter. So to introduce this work, basically the context is that the tools that we
1:32.0	use to predict risk and surgery vary widely in the way they work and how well they predict outcomes.
1:37.0	Some like the ASA score are fairly subjective.
1:41.0	Others like the American College of Surgeons risk calculator require
1:44.4	lots of quantitative inputs in order to generate their predictions. Many of these were
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