medRxiv - SurgeryPub Date : 2024-05-31DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.29.24308002
Meghal Shah, Eric J. Kuo, Jennifer H. Kuo, Shawn Hsu, Catherine McManus, Rachel Liou, James A. Lee, Tejas S. Sathe
{"title":"EndoGPT: A Proof-of-concept Large Language Model Based Assistant for the Management of Thyroid Nodules","authors":"Meghal Shah, Eric J. Kuo, Jennifer H. Kuo, Shawn Hsu, Catherine McManus, Rachel Liou, James A. Lee, Tejas S. Sathe","doi":"10.1101/2024.05.29.24308002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.29.24308002","url":null,"abstract":"Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being explored for their potential to simulate clinical reasoning. Here, we demonstrate our initial experience using the GPT-4o LLM along with prompt engineering and knowledge retrieval to develop EndoGPT, a clinical decision support tool for the management of thyroid nodules. In a pilot study of 50 cases, EndoGPT demonstrated an 83% concordance rate with expert surgeons’ assessments and plans. The highest concordance was in diagnosis (93%), followed by the need for an operation (82%) and type of operation (69%). This work suggests that LLM-based assistants may play a useful role in assisting clinicians in the future.","PeriodicalId":501051,"journal":{"name":"medRxiv - Surgery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141257981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
medRxiv - SurgeryPub Date : 2024-05-27DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.26.24307908
Antonio Sampaio Soares, Sophia Bano, Laura T Castro, Ricardo Rocha, Paulo Alves, Paulo Mira, João Costa, Manish Chand, Danail Stoyanov
{"title":"Protocol for the Development of Artificial Intelligence Models for the Reduction of Surgical Complications Based on Intraoperative Video - Surg_Cloud project","authors":"Antonio Sampaio Soares, Sophia Bano, Laura T Castro, Ricardo Rocha, Paulo Alves, Paulo Mira, João Costa, Manish Chand, Danail Stoyanov","doi":"10.1101/2024.05.26.24307908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.26.24307908","url":null,"abstract":"<strong>Introduction</strong> Complications following abdominal surgery have a very significant negative impact on the patient and the health care system. Despite the spread of minimally invasive surgery, there is no automated way to use intraoperative video to predict complications. New developments in data storage capacity and artificial intelligence algorithm creation now allow for this opportunity.","PeriodicalId":501051,"journal":{"name":"medRxiv - Surgery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141167011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
medRxiv - SurgeryPub Date : 2024-05-04DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.03.24306350
Sigrún Eyrúnardóttir Clark, Iain Moppett, S. Ramani Moonesinghe, Cecilia Vindrola-Padros
{"title":"Protocol for assessing the impact of the 6th National Audit Project recommendations on practice","authors":"Sigrún Eyrúnardóttir Clark, Iain Moppett, S. Ramani Moonesinghe, Cecilia Vindrola-Padros","doi":"10.1101/2024.05.03.24306350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.03.24306350","url":null,"abstract":"Patient safety has been a growing area of concern, especially within perioperative care where risks of major complications during surgery exist. Anaphylaxis in the operating theatre is a life-threatening drug reaction that happens suddenly, without warning and can affect anyone. The 6th National Audit Project (NAP6) of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA): Perioperative Anaphylaxis was the largest ever prospective study of anaphylaxis related to anaesthesia and surgery. The findings from the audit were collated into a report and included recommendations for improved patient care. The purpose of this study is to understand the perceptions of the NAP6 recommendations and their impact on practice. This study will use ethnographic qualitative methods in the form of observations, interviews and a documentary analysis. The sessions targeted for observations will include departmental or hospital meetings, and educational or training sessions, related to perioperative anaphylaxis. The target sample size of 78 healthcare professionals across six hospitals within England, will include individuals with roles specific to anaesthesia, surgery, immunology, allergy and governance. Additionally, six stakeholders will be interviewed who can provide insights into the NAP6 recommendations at the national level. Across the six sites, local collaborators will share any relevant documents related to perioperative anaphylaxis or the NAP-6 recommendations. The study has received regulatory approvals from the Health Research Authority and has been funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research.","PeriodicalId":501051,"journal":{"name":"medRxiv - Surgery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140930392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
medRxiv - SurgeryPub Date : 2024-04-29DOI: 10.1101/2024.04.29.24306412
Morten Winkler Møller, Mathias Just Nortvig, Mikkel Schou Andersen, Frantz Rom Poulsen
{"title":"DNA methylation in pituitary adenomas: scoping review protocol","authors":"Morten Winkler Møller, Mathias Just Nortvig, Mikkel Schou Andersen, Frantz Rom Poulsen","doi":"10.1101/2024.04.29.24306412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.29.24306412","url":null,"abstract":"<strong>Objective</strong> The general objective of this study is to map the current knowledge in DNA methylation in Pituitary Adenomas, and in particular focus on genetic and epigenetic findings and the translation into a clinical setting.","PeriodicalId":501051,"journal":{"name":"medRxiv - Surgery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140830381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
medRxiv - SurgeryPub Date : 2024-04-28DOI: 10.1101/2024.04.26.24306239
John E Downey, Hunter R Schone, Stephen T Foldes, Charles Greenspon, Fang Liu, Ceci Verbaarschot, Daniel Biro, David Satzer, Chan Hong Moon, Brian A Coffman, Vahab Youssofzadeh, Daryl Fields, Taylor G Hobbs, Elizaveta Okorokova, Elizabeth C Tyler-Kabara, Peter C Warnke, Jorge Gonzalez-Martinez, Nicholas G Hatsopoulos, Sliman J Bensmaia, Michael L Boninger, Robert A Gaunt, Jennifer L Collinger
{"title":"A roadmap for implanting microelectrode arrays to evoke tactile sensations through intracortical microstimulation","authors":"John E Downey, Hunter R Schone, Stephen T Foldes, Charles Greenspon, Fang Liu, Ceci Verbaarschot, Daniel Biro, David Satzer, Chan Hong Moon, Brian A Coffman, Vahab Youssofzadeh, Daryl Fields, Taylor G Hobbs, Elizaveta Okorokova, Elizabeth C Tyler-Kabara, Peter C Warnke, Jorge Gonzalez-Martinez, Nicholas G Hatsopoulos, Sliman J Bensmaia, Michael L Boninger, Robert A Gaunt, Jennifer L Collinger","doi":"10.1101/2024.04.26.24306239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.26.24306239","url":null,"abstract":"Intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) is a method for restoring sensation to people with paralysis as part of a bidirectional brain-computer interface to restore upper limb function. Evoking tactile sensations of the hand through ICMS requires precise targeting of implanted electrodes. Here we describe the presurgical imaging procedures used to generate functional maps of the hand area of the somatosensory cortex and subsequent planning that guided the implantation of intracortical microelectrode arrays. In five participants with cervical spinal cord injury, across two study locations, this procedure successfully enabled ICMS-evoked sensations localized to at least the first four digits of the hand. The imaging and planning procedures developed through this clinical trial provide a roadmap for other brain-computer interface studies to ensure successful placement of stimulation electrodes.","PeriodicalId":501051,"journal":{"name":"medRxiv - Surgery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140830375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
medRxiv - SurgeryPub Date : 2024-04-27DOI: 10.1101/2024.04.25.24306396
J Alvarez, Q Shi, A Dasari, J Garcia-Aguilar, H Sanoff, TJ George, TS Hong, G Yothers, PA Philip, GD Nelson, T Al Baghdadi, O Alese, W Zambare, DM Omer, FS Verheij, J Buckley, H Williams, M George, R Garcia, EM O’Reilly, JA Meyerhardt, A Shergill, N Horvat, PB Romesser, WA Hall, JJ Smith
{"title":"ALLIANCE A022104/NRG-GI010: The Janus Rectal Cancer Trial: a randomized phase II/III trial testing the efficacy of triplet versus doublet chemotherapy regarding clinical complete response and disease-free survival in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer","authors":"J Alvarez, Q Shi, A Dasari, J Garcia-Aguilar, H Sanoff, TJ George, TS Hong, G Yothers, PA Philip, GD Nelson, T Al Baghdadi, O Alese, W Zambare, DM Omer, FS Verheij, J Buckley, H Williams, M George, R Garcia, EM O’Reilly, JA Meyerhardt, A Shergill, N Horvat, PB Romesser, WA Hall, JJ Smith","doi":"10.1101/2024.04.25.24306396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.25.24306396","url":null,"abstract":"<strong>Background</strong> Recent data have demonstrated that in locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC), a total neoadjuvant therapy (TNT) approach improves compliance with chemotherapy and increases rates of tumor response compared to neoadjuvant chemoradiation (CRT) alone. They further indicate that the optimal sequencing of TNT involves consolidation (rather than induction) chemotherapy to optimize complete response rates. Data, largely from retrospective studies, have also shown that patients with clinical complete response (cCR) after neoadjuvant therapy may be managed safely with the watch and wait approach (WW) instead of preemptive total mesorectal resection (TME). However, the optimal consolidation chemotherapy regimen to achieve cCR has not been established, and a randomized clinical trial has not robustly evaluated cCR as a primary endpoint. Collaborating with a multidisciplinary oncology team and patient groups, we designed this NCI-sponsored study of chemotherapy intensification to address these issues and to drive up cCR rates, to provide opportunity for organ preservation, improve quality of life for patients and improve survival outcomes.","PeriodicalId":501051,"journal":{"name":"medRxiv - Surgery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140830374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
medRxiv - SurgeryPub Date : 2024-04-10DOI: 10.1101/2024.04.09.24305451
Sebastian Djerf, Oscar Åkesson, Magnus Nilsson, Mats Lindblad, Jakob Hedberg, Jan Johansson, Attila Frigyesi
{"title":"Advancing 90-day mortality and anastomotic leakage predictions after oesophagectomy for cancer using explainable AI (XAI)","authors":"Sebastian Djerf, Oscar Åkesson, Magnus Nilsson, Mats Lindblad, Jakob Hedberg, Jan Johansson, Attila Frigyesi","doi":"10.1101/2024.04.09.24305451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.09.24305451","url":null,"abstract":"Oesophagectomy for cancer of the oesophagus carries significant morbidity and mortality. Ninety-day mortality and anastomosis leakage are critical early postoperative problems traditionally analysed through logistic regression. In this study, we challenge traditional logistic regression models to predict results with new explainable AI (XAI) models. We used the Swedish National Quality Register for Oesophageal and Gastric Cancer (NREV) to perform traditional multivariable logistic regression and XAI. The 90-day mortality was 6.0%, while anastomosis leakage was present in 12.4%. The XAI models yielded an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.91 for 90-day mortality (as compared with 0.84 for logistic regression). For anastomosis leakage, the AUC was 0.84 using XAI (0.74 using logistic regression). We show that age (mortality increases sharply after 55 years) and body mass index (BMI) (lowest mortality for BMI 30 kg/m<sup>2</sup>) are important survival factors. Additionally, we show that surgery time (minimum anastomosis leakage for a surgery time of 200 min to sharply increase to a maximum at 375 min) and BMI (the lower the BMI, the less anastomosis leakage) are important factors for anastomosis leakage. The surgical understanding of anastomosis leakage and mortality after oesophagectomy is advanced by judiciously applying XAI to structured data. Our nationwide oesophagectomy data contains significant nonlinear relationships. With the help of XAI, we extract personalised knowledge, bringing oesophagus surgery one step closer to personalised medicine.","PeriodicalId":501051,"journal":{"name":"medRxiv - Surgery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140598694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
medRxiv - SurgeryPub Date : 2024-04-09DOI: 10.1101/2024.04.06.24305309
Lohide Daniel, Fekadu Negash
{"title":"Seasonal Variations and the Associated Factors of Acute Appendicitis at a Tertiary Hospital: A Case of SPHMMC, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia","authors":"Lohide Daniel, Fekadu Negash","doi":"10.1101/2024.04.06.24305309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.06.24305309","url":null,"abstract":"<strong>Background</strong> Acute appendicitis, a surgical emergency, is a prevalent pathology with uncertain etiology, influenced by various factors and seasonal variations.","PeriodicalId":501051,"journal":{"name":"medRxiv - Surgery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140598692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
medRxiv - SurgeryPub Date : 2024-04-08DOI: 10.1101/2024.04.06.24305431
Frederick A Godley, Varun V Bansal, David G. Su, Vadim Gushchin, Mecker G Moller, Rupen Shah, Alexandra Gangi, Deepa Magge, Dan G Blazer, Oliver S Eng, Laura Lambert, Sean Dineen, Sherif Abdel-Misih, John Encandela, Kiran K Turaga
{"title":"Teaching Uncommon Diseases in Surgery: Conceptual Framework for the Development of a Peritoneal Surface Malignancy Curriculum","authors":"Frederick A Godley, Varun V Bansal, David G. Su, Vadim Gushchin, Mecker G Moller, Rupen Shah, Alexandra Gangi, Deepa Magge, Dan G Blazer, Oliver S Eng, Laura Lambert, Sean Dineen, Sherif Abdel-Misih, John Encandela, Kiran K Turaga","doi":"10.1101/2024.04.06.24305431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.06.24305431","url":null,"abstract":"<strong>Background</strong> There is a critical need for contemporary education to address peritoneal surface malignancies (PSM). This study delineates the development of an online PSM curriculum for surgical trainees, in conjunction with a national consortium.","PeriodicalId":501051,"journal":{"name":"medRxiv - Surgery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140602213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}