Journal Review in Hernia Surgery: Quality Improvement in Abdominal Wall Reconstruction
Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast
Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast
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🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
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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