Surgical Superstition: Defending the Indefensible

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

9:00 AM – 9:45 AM PT

Location: Ballroom 6A, Upper Level

Co-Moderator(s)

Kyle G. Cologne, MD

Professor of Surgery
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California, United States

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Dana M. Hayden, MD, MPH

Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, US

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All of the relevant financial relationships listed below have been mitigated.

Kyle G. Cologne, MD: This individual has no financial relationships with ineligible companies.

Dana M. Hayden, MD, MPH: This individual has no financial relationships with ineligible companies.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

Explain aspects of perioperative care with good, bad, and non-existent supporting evidence to support their ongoing use in clinical practice.
Recognize perioperative clinical practice bundle items that despite a lack of high quality evidence still may have benefit.
Describe perioperative clinical practice bundle elements that are done based on personal preference and have no evidence positive or negative to sway use.

CME Credit: 0.75
Contact Hours: 0.75

As surgical practice becomes more evidence-based, what features of our practice do we continue to employ despite a lack of data? This will be a look at both the good and the bad in that regard, as some things are too difficult to study scientifically, while others have been debunked.

Will also include Q&A and polling to better allow some of these issues to be hashed out. What has solid evidence, what is pseudo-science, and what is completely made up? Come to this session to find out!