Journal Club

Study highlights need for interventions/training to improve coping skills/support for surgeons & staff after intraoperative errors. Effective strategies: error disclosure, calmness, communication. Poor coping behaviors: anger, blame.

In this study, the authors show that oral propranolol effectively treats infantile hemangiomas in 60% of participants compared to 4% with placebo in a randomized controlled trial.

Journal club provides detailed summaries and engages in insightful discussions on the benefits and limitations of important plastic surgery publications.

Journal club provides detailed summaries and engages in insightful discussions on the benefits and limitations of important plastic surgery publications.

Journal club provides detailed summaries and engages in insightful discussions on the benefits and limitations of important plastic surgery publications.

Journal club provides detailed summaries and engages in insightful discussions on the benefits and limitations of important plastic surgery publications.

This 1912 publication by Allen B Kanavel provided a standardised method to diagnose flexor tenosynovitis.

Bruner described a "zig-zag" incision for the volar aspect of the finger in 1967 after his disdain for the midlateral incision. This journal club details the origin of the Bruner Incision, its limitations and its current role in clinical practice.

Pitanguy's line is one of the most recognisable and famous surgical landmarks. This journal club analyses the original publication in the 1960s.

Allen's Test is one of the most recognisable and famous clinical signs. This journal club analyses the original publication in the 1920s.

This was a landmark paper in the management of melanoma. The authors answered a very important question - what is the actual efficacy of lymph node clearance in melanoma patients with positive sentinel lymph nodes?