Hello pediatric surgery family. I'm Em Gootee from
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
And today our team is going to deliver the articles
that you should know about. We have three papers
today, all from different journals. We don't
have much time, so let's start. Our first paper
titled, Peer Support to Promote Surgeon Well
-Being. The APSA Program Experience by Fall et
al. This paper is summarized by Lizzy Lee, a
physician associate by profession and a member
of our team here at Cincinnati Children's, dedicated
to creating content for pediatric surgery. The
American Pediatric Surgical Association, or the
APSA, created a peer support program for pediatric
surgeons in 2020. This article talks about how
they implemented it, the experiences they had,
and outcomes. Their goal was to support surgeons
after traumatic events. The most common referral
reasons were toxic work environments and adverse
events. 50 surgeons total agreed to receive training
on how to be a supporter. Over 80 % were able
to use these peer support skills informally with
colleagues, partners, and trainees. The peer
support program shows that this type of support
system can work really well to help surgeons
heal from traumatic experiences and toxic work
environments. Great. Our second paper is Tracheomalacia
and Tracheomegaly in Infants and Children with
Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Managed with
and without Phetoscopic Endoluminal Tracheal
Occlusion, or FETO, a Multi -Center Retrospective
Cohort Study by Basurdo et al. And this paper
is summarized by Carlos Colunga. He is a pediatric
surgeon from Mexico and collaborates with us
to produce these article reviews. Researchers
from this multicenter cohort study examined the
outcomes from infants with congenital diaphragmatic
hernia with or without tracheal occlusion to
assess its impact on tracheomalacia prevalence
and its related complications. And what did they
find? First, tracheomalacia was 5 % more common
in tracheally occluded infants with 4 % more
cases, although these symptoms typically receded
within 55 months. Second, these infants typically
showed a larger trachea, which was around 31
% wider. And finally, 37 % of tracheally occluded
cases retained metallic balloon components, although
no significant complications were reported. In
conclusion, while tracheal occlusion is effective
in promoting lung growth, it is associated with
a higher risk of tracheal accumulation, although
most cases result and they do not appear to have
long -term effects. Now, moving to the last paper
of the day, Image -Guided Core Needle or Surgical
Biopsy for Neuroblastoma Diagnosis in Children,
a systematic review and meta -analysis from the
International Society of Pediatric Surgical Oncology,
or IPSO. by Pio et al. This paper is summarized
by Cecilia Higiena. She's one of the previous
research fellows at Cincinnati Children's. This
is a systematic review and meta -analysis done
by IBSO, and they wanted to analyze the accuracy
and safety of image -guided corn needle biopsy
for neuroblastoma. And what did they find? They
gathered eight retrospective studies with 490
patients. And what they found is that tissue
adequacy and biological characterization of the
biopsy was not significantly different in both
groups. But intraoperative transfusions and complications
were higher in the surgical group. So it seems
that image -guided corneal biopsy is safe and
effective for diagnosed neuroblastoma. Thank
you for listening. Please check the link in the
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