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Promoting a Culture of Safety in Cholecystectomy (COSIC) over a decade at a Philippine public regional hospital after the SAGES International Proctoring Course in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Course.

Authors:
William Yi Juan Perez Claire Rosen Ferdauzi Akalal Ibrahim Hassan Ian Soriano

Surg Endosc 2022 Jun 13. Epub 2022 Jun 13.

Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Background: The SAGES International Proctoring Course for Laparoscopic Cholecystecomy accepts applications from low to middle-income countries for SAGES faculty to train local surgeons. A regional public hospital in the 10th most populous city in the Philippines was one of the chosen sites for the 1-week course in 2010. Two SAGES surgeons and one nurse trained two local surgeons and four nurses identified by the hospital director.

Methods: All patients seen in the out-patient clinic at the Zamboanga City Medical Center in the Philippines and scheduled for elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy from the first day of the course in August 2010 until December 2018 were entered into a prospectively collected database including demographics, pre-op diagnosis, operative findings, histopathologic diagnosis, conversion rates and 30-day complications including re-operations.

Results: 521 patients underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Majority were female (63.7%) with a mean age of 45.9 years. Most procedures were completed laparoscopically with an open conversion rate of 3.3%. Three patients underwent laparoscopic subtotal cholecystectomy. Reported complications requiring reoperation included one stump necrosis, two incisional hernias and one retained stone. One serosal injury and one surgical site infection were also reported for an overall morbidity rate of 4.6%. Pathology showed chronic calculous cholecystitis in 92.8% of specimens. No 30-day mortality was recorded.

Conclusion: The SAGES International Proctoring Course for Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy has been shown to be a successful method for global surgery training. A focused 1-week direct proctoring model in the Philippines showed a sustained culture of safety in cholecystectomy with low 30-day morbidity, complication and conversion rates over a decade following participation in this program.

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June 2022

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