Hugo Layard Horsfall, Danyal Z Khan, Justin Collins, Stephen Cooke, Simon R Freeman, Nihal Gurusinghe, Susie Hampton, Carl Hardwidge, Richard Irving, Neil Kitchen, Andrew King, Sherif Khalil, Chan H Koh, Colin Leonard, Hani J Marcus, William Muirhead, Rupert Obholzer, Omar Pathmanaban, Iain J A Robertson, Jonathan Shapey, Danail Stoyanov, Mario Teo, James R Tysome, Shakeel R Saeed, Patrick Grover
Objective An operative workflow systematically compartmentalizes operations into hierarchal components of phases, steps, instrument, technique errors, and event errors. Operative workflow provides a foundation for education, training, and understanding of surgical variation. In this Part 1, we present a codified operative workflow for the retrosigmoid approach to vestibular schwannoma resection. Methods A mixed-method consensus process of literature review, small-group Delphi's consensus, followed by a national Delphi's consensus, was performed in collaboration with British Skull Base Society (BSBS)...
October 2023: Journal of Neurological Surgery. Part B, Skull Base