Surgeons who were up operating the night before do not make more mistakes on the subsequent day's surgeries, according to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Researchers looked at 2,078 non-emergent gallbladder surgeries performed by 331 surgeons who had operated the night before and 8,312 non-emergent gallbladder surgeries for which the surgeons had not performed a surgery the previous night.
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Error rates for each group of surgeries were under 1 percent, and deaths were rare in both groups, suggesting concerns about sleep and surgical outcomes are unfounded.
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