JAMA surgeryPub Date : 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2025.0044
Vanessa P Ho, Pooja Podugu, Marie L Crandall
{"title":"Food Insecurity and Global Poverty-A Crisis for Trauma Patients.","authors":"Vanessa P Ho, Pooja Podugu, Marie L Crandall","doi":"10.1001/jamasurg.2025.0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamasurg.2025.0044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14690,"journal":{"name":"JAMA surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143556932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA surgeryPub Date : 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2025.0045
Anam N Ehsan, Annabelle Jones, Shivangi Saha, Preet Hathi, Chaun-Chin Huang, Srinivasan Vengadassalapathy, Keerthana Bhat, Praveen Ganesh, Shashank Chauhan, Surya Rao Rao Venkata Mahipathy, Coral Katave, Maneesh Singhal, Seth A Berkowitz, S Raja Sabapathy, Kavitha Ranganathan
{"title":"Food Insecurity and Clinical Outcomes in Surgical Trauma Patients.","authors":"Anam N Ehsan, Annabelle Jones, Shivangi Saha, Preet Hathi, Chaun-Chin Huang, Srinivasan Vengadassalapathy, Keerthana Bhat, Praveen Ganesh, Shashank Chauhan, Surya Rao Rao Venkata Mahipathy, Coral Katave, Maneesh Singhal, Seth A Berkowitz, S Raja Sabapathy, Kavitha Ranganathan","doi":"10.1001/jamasurg.2025.0045","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamasurg.2025.0045","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Food insecurity, which is the lack of consistent access to sufficient and nutritious food, impacts over 1.3 billion individuals worldwide. The impact of food insecurity on primary care and medical subspecialties is recognized, but its influence on surgical outcomes remains underexplored.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To investigate the association between food insecurity and postoperative clinical outcomes in adult surgical trauma patients.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>This prospective longitudinal cohort study was conducted from October 2021 to June 2023 and surveyed patients at admission and at 1 and 3 months postoperatively. This multicenter study was conducted across 3 public and private tertiary care centers in India. Adult patients who underwent inpatient operative intervention for traumatic injury were included through consecutive sampling.</p><p><strong>Exposures: </strong>Food insecurity, which was identified using the validated Hunger Vital Sign tool. This was determined at admission as preoperative food insecurity. Also assessed was a subset of participants who were food secure at admission but then became food insecure during the follow-up period.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>Postoperative complications and length of stay. These outcomes were tracked during hospitalization and also at 1 month and 3 months after discharge to compare between time points.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 848 patients (median [IQR] age, 32 [24-45] years; 692 male [82%]) were included in this analysis. Of the total cohort, 174 participants (21%) reported experiencing food insecurity in the year before admission. Patients with food insecurity had significantly higher rates of postoperative complications compared with those without food insecurity (41.4% [72 of 174] vs 12.5% [84 of 671]; odds ratio [OR], 3.68; 95% CI, 2.24-6.05). Additionally, patients with food insecurity had a longer median (IQR) length of stay (13 [6-28] days vs 5 [3-9] days; incidence rate ratio, 1.51; 95% CI, 1.31-1.74). Furthermore, new-onset food insecurity at 1 month postoperatively was associated with an increased risk of new complications at 3 months postoperatively (OR, 5.06; 95% CI, 2.21-11.13).</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>Results demonstrate that food insecurity was significantly associated with increased postoperative complications and longer hospital stays in surgical trauma patients. Routine screening for food insecurity and targeted interventions like medically tailored meals, food prescription programs, and philanthropic food resources may mitigate the detrimental impact of food insecurity on surgical outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":14690,"journal":{"name":"JAMA surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143556927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA surgeryPub Date : 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2025.0006
Juha K A Rinne, Heikki Huhta, Tarja Pinta, Arto Turunen, Anne Mattila, Kyösti Tahkola, Olli Helminen, Pasi Ohtonen, Tero Rautio, Jyrki Kössi
{"title":"Indocyanine Green Fluorescence Imaging in Prevention of Colorectal Anastomotic Leakage: A Randomized Clinical Trial.","authors":"Juha K A Rinne, Heikki Huhta, Tarja Pinta, Arto Turunen, Anne Mattila, Kyösti Tahkola, Olli Helminen, Pasi Ohtonen, Tero Rautio, Jyrki Kössi","doi":"10.1001/jamasurg.2025.0006","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamasurg.2025.0006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Performing a bowel anastomosis is a critical step in colorectal resection. Assessing the risk of anastomotic leakage remains challenging, even for experienced surgeons.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To evaluate the use of indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence imaging in assessing perfusion at the anastomotic site before and after anastomosis and determine whether it helps reduce anastomotic leakages.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>ICG-COLORAL is a prospective, randomized, multicenter study conducted from September 1, 2018, to December 31, 2023. Participants were recruited during preoperative outpatient clinic visits by clinicians not involved in the study, as well as by researchers. Participants were elective patients scheduled for laparoscopic resections, excluding low anterior resections, with planned primary anastomosis in 5 Finnish public hospitals experienced in laparoscopic colorectal surgery.</p><p><strong>Intervention: </strong>The intervention group received 5 mg of ICG intravenously before and after anastomosis formation. The fluorescence signal was assessed with a near-infrared-capable camera. The control group did not receive ICG fluorescence imaging.</p><p><strong>Main outcome and measure: </strong>The primary outcome measure was the anastomotic leak rate as detected by computed tomography.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 1136 patients in the intention-to-treat population, 526 (46.3%) were female and 610 (53.7%) male; they had a mean (SD) age of 70 (11) years, body mass index of 28 (5), and age-adjusted Charlson Comorbidity Index of 5 (3). Overall, the anastomotic leak rate was 5.8% (33/567) in the ICG fluorescence imaging group vs 7.9% (45/569) in the control group (odds ratio [OR], 0.73; 95% CI, 0.48-1.13; P = .16). For right-sided operations, the anastomotic leak rate with ICG fluorescence imaging was 5.9% (16/273) vs 6.7% (20/298) in the control group (OR, 0.87; 95% CI, 0.46-1.65). For left-sided operations, the anastomotic leak rate was 5.2% (14/267) with ICG fluorescence imaging vs 9.5% (23/243) without (OR, 0.55; 95% CI, 0.29-1.05). No patients reported adverse events related to ICG.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>This study found that routine use of ICG fluorescence imaging does not significantly reduce the overall anastomotic leak rate in laparoscopic colorectal surgery if low anterior resections are excluded but may be beneficial in left-sided operations.</p><p><strong>Trial registration: </strong>ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03602677.</p>","PeriodicalId":14690,"journal":{"name":"JAMA surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143556902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA surgeryPub Date : 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2025.0015
Matthew Z Wilson, David B Stewart
{"title":"Indocyanine Green Fluorescence for Colectomy-Better Than the Naked Eye?","authors":"Matthew Z Wilson, David B Stewart","doi":"10.1001/jamasurg.2025.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamasurg.2025.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14690,"journal":{"name":"JAMA surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143556938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA surgeryPub Date : 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2025.0001
Vasundhara Mathur, Katherine Wasden, Thomas H Shin, Pourya Medhati, Abdelrahman A Nimeri, Ali Tavakkoli, Eric G Sheu
{"title":"Neoadjuvant Semaglutide, Bariatric Surgery Weight Loss, and Overall Outcomes.","authors":"Vasundhara Mathur, Katherine Wasden, Thomas H Shin, Pourya Medhati, Abdelrahman A Nimeri, Ali Tavakkoli, Eric G Sheu","doi":"10.1001/jamasurg.2025.0001","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamasurg.2025.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14690,"journal":{"name":"JAMA surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143556923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA surgeryPub Date : 2025-02-26DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2024.7231
Christine M Leeper, Josh B Brown, Brian S Zuckerbraun
{"title":"Racing Against Time in Thoracotomy for Traumatic Cardiac Arrest.","authors":"Christine M Leeper, Josh B Brown, Brian S Zuckerbraun","doi":"10.1001/jamasurg.2024.7231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamasurg.2024.7231","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14690,"journal":{"name":"JAMA surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143501368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}