Microsurgery Cases

[Jamie Lyn Castelo]

Hi All:

Are your residents counting surgical cases using loupes as “microsurgery” cases though they are not using an actual microscope?

[Anonymous]

Last year, Dr. Derstine said the definition of microsurgery is

Case involved use of a microscope in the repair of a nerve or vessel (cases with loupes do NOT count).

[Cindy Thompson]

No, cases done with loupes do not count in the microsurgery category.

[Jamie Lyn Castelo]

Thank you for your quick responses. Are your attendings increasingly using loupes instead of microscopes? If so, what you are folks doing to make up for microsurgery cases?

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