Carl Pesta

Does Surgeon Experience Affect Outcomes in Robotic Cholecystectomy for Emergency Biliary Disease? A Statewide Analysis

BACKGROUND: The use of robotic surgery (RS) as an operative technique in emergency general surgery (EGS) is rapidly growing, with a >3-fold increase in RS-EGS operations since 2011. Prior work has utilized payer claims to evaluate outcomes of RS-cholecystectomy in the EGS setting...