aDepartment of Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
bDepartment of Surgery, Lexington Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center, Lexington, KY
*Correspondence address: Victor A Ferraris, MD, PhD, FACS, Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky, A301 Kentucky Clinic, 740 South Limestone, Lexington, KY 40536-0284.
E-mail: [email protected]
Submitted December 18, 2015; accepted December 21, 2015.
Disclosure Information: Nothing to disclose.
Disclosures outside the scope of the current work: Dr Ferraris has performed CME events for CMEology/Baxter Healthcare and is on the advisory board of the Acelity division of KCI. Dr Saha has performed a research trial for CVRx.
Disclaimer: American College of Surgeons NSQIP and the hospitals participating in the ACS NSQIP are the source of the data used herein; they have not verified and are not responsible for the statistical validity of the data analysis or the conclusions derived by the authors.
Presented at the Southern Surgical Association 127th Annual Meeting, Hot Springs, VA, December 2015.
