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Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Journal Review in Hernia Surgery: Quality Improvement in Abdominal Wall Reconstruction

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Education

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In their last Behind the Knife episode, the Hernia Content Team from Carolinas Medical Center discusses quality improvement in abdominal wall reconstruction (AWR). The complexity of AWR patients makes this discipline a perfect match for quality improvement efforts. The group review two papers published by their group: one that tracks patient outcomes over time and then another that reviews a specific quality improvement initiative (penicillin allergy protocol). 

Hosts:
·      Dr. Sullivan “Sully” Ayuso, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Endeavor Health (Evanston, IL), @SAyusoMD (Twitter)
·      Dr. Monica Polcz, Assistant Professor, University of South Florida (Tampa, FL)
·      Dr. Vedra Augenstein, Professor of Surgery, Carolinas Medical Center (Charlotte, NC), @VedraAugenstein (Twitter)
·      Dr. Todd Heniford, Chief of GI & MIS, Carolinas Medical Center (Charlotte, NC), @THeniford (Twitter)

Learning Objectives:
-       Define Quality Improvement and its Importance in Surgical Practice
-       Identify Key Strategies and Examples of Quality Improvement Initiatives in Abdominal Wall Reconstruction
-       Explain the Process of Implementing and Evaluating a Quality Improvement Project
-       Recognize the Value of Multidisciplinary Collaboration in Quality Improvement

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1:11.0

Welcome back to another episode of Behind the Knife. This is your hernia team from

1:15.6

Carolina's Medical Center coming at you with our final episode in this series. We very

1:20.7

much appreciate Behind the Knife's willing us to have us and hopefully share some ideas

1:25.1

with the listeners of Behind the Kn knife. So the topic that we're

1:29.7

going to discuss today is quality improvement in abdominal wall reconstruction. This is a journal

1:35.2

review episode and we're going to be touching on two papers, but can hopefully paint a larger

1:40.0

picture in terms of what quality improvement has meant to our group. So this episode is going to

1:44.5

emphasize why it's important to track your outcomes for patients and then use those outcomes to

1:49.2

better clinical care over time. The two papers that we're going to be discussing are open

1:54.1

prepared neovintral hernia repair, prospective observational outcomes of quality improvement over

1:58.9

18 years and 1842 patients, and then

2:02.4

implementation of penicillin allergy protocol and open abdominal wall reconstruction, a preoperative

2:07.6

optimization program. Both of those papers have been published within the last four years in

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