Kwok, Pingling and Gleich, Otto and Dalles, Katharina and Mayr, Elisabeth and Jacob, Peter and Strutz, Jurgen (2017) How to Avoid a Learning Curve in Stapedotomy: A Standardized Surgical Technique. OTOLOGY & NEUROTOLOGY, 38 (7). pp. 931-937. ISSN 1531-7129, 1537-4505
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Objective: To evaluate, whether a learning curve for beginners in stapedotomy can be avoided by using a prosthesis with thermal memory-shape attachment in combination with a standardized laser-assisted surgical technique. Study Design: Retrospective case review. Setting: Tertiary referral center. Patients: Fifty-eight ears were operated by three experienced surgeons and compared with a group of 12 cases operated by a beginner in stapedotomy. Intervention: Stapedotomy. Main Outcome Measures: Difference of pure-tone audiometry thresholds measured before and after surgery. Results: The average postoperative gain for air conduction in the frequencies below 2 kHz was 20 to 25 dB and decreased for the higher frequencies. Using the Mann-Whitney-U test for comparing mean gain between experienced and inexperienced surgeons showed no significant difference (p = 0.281 at 4 kHz and p > 0.7 for the other frequencies). A Spearman rank correlation of the postoperative gain for air-and bone-conduction thresholds was obtained at each test frequency for the first 12 patients consecutively treated with a thermal memory-shape attachment prosthesis by two experienced and one inexperienced surgeon. This analysis does not support the hypothesis of a "learning effect'' that should be associated with an improved outcome for successively treated patients. Conclusion: It is possible to avoid a learning curve in stapes surgery by applying a thermal memory-shape prosthesis in a standardized laser-assisted surgical procedure.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | STAPES SURGERY; OTOSCLEROSIS SURGERY; PROSTHESIS; COMPLICATIONS; PISTON; LASER; Learning curve; Otosclerosis; Stapedotomy; Thermal shape memory prosthesis |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Heilkunde |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2018 13:16 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Feb 2019 11:06 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/1486 |
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