Oscar A Olavarria, MD MS

General Surgery Resident - UTH McGovern Medical School

[Annals of Surgery @AnnalsofSurgery]

What’s New and Interesting: RCT shows that robotic #VentralHerniaRepair is safe and with no differences in wound complications, hernia recurrence, or readmissions compared to laparoscopy. Study from @DhananiNaila et al @UTHealthSurg Free access: https://t.co/psY930V8wL #MIS

[Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS) @acsJACS]

A generic multimodal pain regimen reduced opioids and discharge from the hospital with an opioid prescription while achieving similar pain control.
https://t.co/7JURYCfbxa
#VisualAbstract #SoMe4Surgery
@johnaharvin @UTHealthACS @UTHealthSurg

#AuthorVideo: https://t.co/F5YY06FiEe

[Michele Loor @michele_loor]

Postoperative Work and Activity Restrictions After... : Annals of Surgery https://t.co/aFVSykQk97
Looking forward to this discussion today at 1pm CST #EHSjclub @BCM_Surgery @bwtrautner @DhananiNaila

[Annals of Surgery @AnnalsofSurgery]

New study from @oolavarriak and team reviews the evidence for prophylactic mesh placement for midline laparotomy closure

https://t.co/UbwAaav6ft

[Annals of Surgery @AnnalsofSurgery]

@oolavarriak, @DhananiNaila, @KarlaBernardiM, Julie Holihan, Cynthia Bell, Tien Ko, Mike Liang

[American Board of Surgery @AmBdSurg]

Pilot study finds that, when compared with synthetic mesh, biologic mesh was associated with almost double the rate of surgical site infections, wound dehiscence and readmissions. https://t.co/1Es4GUFvNL

[Oscar A Olavarria, MD MS @oolavarriak]

Glad to share results of our randomized controlled trial on biologic mesh @UTHealthSurg https://t.co/hX8vKlczqf

[Ed Livingston @ehlJAMA]

Why Risk Ratios and Risk Differences are better than odds ratios https://t.co/zGOKAMQDHI via @JAMA_current part of @JAMANetwork

[Ash Paul @pash22]

Study found no evidence of a difference in 90 day postoperative hospital days between robotic and laparoscopic ventral hernia repair. However, robotic repair increased operative duration and healthcare costs, writes @oolavarriak et al in @bmj_latest

[Oscar A Olavarria, MD MS @oolavarriak]

Prehabilitation among patients undergoing non-Bariatric abdominal surgery @JAmCollSurg https://t.co/Y6KHprZgLo

[European Hernia Society @eurohernias]

https://t.co/bkLqFSwwoJ Robotic versus laparoscopic #VHR: multicenter, blinded &#RCT.

#HerniaSurgery #SoMe4Surgery #RoboticSurgery @oolavarriak @bmj_latest

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

Compared with laparoscopic ventral hernia repair, robotic repair did not decrease length of stay, nearly doubled operating room time, and significantly increased cost of healthcare, find @oolavarriak et al in this randomized controlled trial
https://t.co/YCHLeh0EAM

[Oscar A Olavarria, MD MS @oolavarriak]

Not anti-robot, but pro data instead.

Certainly more high-quality studies with designs at low risk for bias are needed to asses benefits of robotics in general surgery.

Here our opinion piece:
https://t.co/x0AwC0Zttk

[Oscar A Olavarria, MD MS @oolavarriak]

@littlemissileo @DrOliverWarren @VBlush @TomGrove9 Yes. We utilized the HerQLes tool known by others as the modified Activities Assessment Scale

[Oscar A Olavarria, MD MS @oolavarriak]

Editorial by @HerniaResearch on our recent paper.
Great review process with insightful feedback and transparency @bmj_latest

[Kristian K Jensen MD PhD DMSc @HerniaResearch]

So this was just published. First RCT comparing robotic and laparoscopic ventral #herniasurgery
https://t.co/aZ95x3rKP0

Lots to debate here! I had the honor to write the editorial for this paper:

https://t.co/lQWYkUjCw0

[Oscar A Olavarria, MD MS @oolavarriak]

@VerranDeborah @HerniaResearch We are currently conducting 1-year and 3-year follow up with plans to publish in a future manuscript

[Oscar A Olavarria, MD MS @oolavarriak]

@littlemissileo @DrOliverWarren @VBlush @TomGrove9 Patients in the RVHR group had only 3 point improvement in their short term QOL while those in the LVHR group improved by 15 points (meaning LVHR did better). However, we acknowledge the importance of long term QOL and we are currently conducting 1-year and 3-year follow up.

[Oscar A Olavarria, MD MS @oolavarriak]

Happy to share our work and grateful to those who helped complete this trial @UTHealthSurg @UTHealth @bmj_latest

Robotic versus laparoscopic ventral hernia repair: multicenter, blinded randomized controlled trial. https://t.co/t7UM6O7zl6

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

Is robotic ventral hernia repair associated with fewer days in the hospital 90 days after surgery compared with laparoscopic repair? This blinded randomized controlled trial by @oolavarriak et al investigates
https://t.co/LIU9F6SCsB

[Lillian Kao @LillianKao1]

Congrats to the residents who completed their Masters in Clinical Science degrees and two years of surgical research! @GabrielleHatton @HealthScoutBlog @oolavarriak @ErinMCorsiniMD The @UTH_CSTEP program has had 15 graduates thus far!