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Difficult Decision on Tyroid Surgery of Expert Witness: Complication or Malpractice

Tiroid Cerrahisinde Bilirkişinin Zor Seçimi: Komplikasyon veya Malpraktis

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89–92
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2022-10-10
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Every physician should eval-uate every specific case in its own nature and conditions when asked to determine whether the case should be determined as complication or malpractice.

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Objective & Hypothesis:Objective: Recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) paralysis and hypocal-cemia following thyroid surgery have been designated as complica-tion or malpractice.
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Key Findings & Data:In this study, it was aimed to evaluate surgeons’ opinions towards RLN injury and hypocalcemia after bilateral sub-total thyroidectomy (BST) and total thyroidectomy (TT) in nodular goiter and thyroid carcinoma.Materials and Methods: We prepared a questionnaire to deter-mine approaches of surgeons in such cases.
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Conclusion & Impact:Every physician should eval-uate every specific case in its own nature and conditions when asked to determine whether the case should be determined as complication or malpractice.
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Objective: Recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) paralysis and hypocal-cemia following thyroid surgery have been designated as complica-tion or malpractice. In this study, it was aimed to evaluate surgeons’ opinions towards RLN injury and hypocalcemia after bilateral sub-total thyroidectomy (BST) and total thyroidectomy (TT) in nodular goiter and thyroid carcinoma.Materials and Methods: We prepared a questionnaire to deter-mine approaches of surgeons in such cases. We grouped the respon-dents according their thyroid surgery experiments and asked them to determine whether it is malpractice or complication in cases with unilateral or bilateral RLN paralysis and hypocalcemia after “bilat-eral subtotal thyroidectomy” and in cases with unilateral or bilateral RLN paralysis after “total thyroidectomy”.Results: In all groups describing bilateral RLN injury was more common. Problems which are defined as “complication” in cancer patients, were more likely defined as “malpractice” in benign cases. However, these differences were generally not statistically signifi-cant. Conclusion: There is no consensus about malpractice and compli-cation discrimination among physicians. Every physician should eval-uate every specific case in its own nature and conditions when asked to determine whether the case should be determined as complication or malpractice.

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Amaç: Tiroid cerrahisinde rekürren laringeal sinir (RLN) hasa-rı ve hipokalseminin komplikasyon veya malpraktis olup olmadığı tartışılmaktadır. Bu çalışmada, nodüler guatr ve tiroid kanserlerinde bilateral subtotal tiroidektomi (BST) ve total tiroidektomi (TT) son-rasında hekimlerin RLN hasarına ve hipokalsemiye yönelik görüş-lerini değerlendirmek amaçlanmıştır.Gereç ve Yöntem: Bu olgularda cerrahların yaklaşımlarını belirlemek için bir anket hazırlanmıştır. BST ve TT sonrası tek ta-raflı ya da bilateral RLN felci ve hipokalseminin, malpraktis ya da komplikasyon olup olmadığı deneyimlerine göre kategorize edilen cerrah katılımcılara sorulmuştur.Bulgular: Tüm gruplarda bilateral sinir hasarının “malpraktis” olarak tanımlanma oranı daha yüksektir. Ayrıca kanser olgularında “komplikasyon” olarak tanımlanan sorunlar, kanser dışı ameliyat-larda “malpraktis olarak yorumlanabilmiştir. Ancak bu değerlen-dirme farkları çoğu zaman istatistik anlamlılık taşımamaktadır.Sonuç: Hekimler arasında tiroid cerrahisi sonrasında malprak-tis ve komplikasyon ayırımına ilişkin bir fikir birliği yoktur. He-kimler her olguyu kendi doğasında ve koşullarında değerlendirerek komplikasyon veya malpraktis olarak tanımlamalıdır.

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TÜMER, A. R., KOÇAK, S., YILDIRIM, M. Ş. (2022). Difficult Decision on Tyroid Surgery of Expert Witness: Complication or Malpractice. Adli Tıp Bülteni, Cilt: 23 - Sayı: 2, 89–92. https://ajindex.com/articles/428647

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