Pre‐Incision Time Intervals and Outcomes of Free Flap re‐Exploration: A Retrospective Single‐Center Study
Alexander Fiedler, Nesrin Ibrahim, Maria Füth, Tatjana Katharina Fricke, Sonja Verena Schmidt, Felix Reinkemeier, Flemming Puscz, Yonca Steubing, Marcus Lehnhardt, Christoph Wallner, Marius Drysch · 2026
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When a transplanted tissue flap loses its blood supply, surgeons rush back to the operating room, and every delay is blamed for failures. Alexander Fiedler and co-authors timed 113 such rescue operations at one center. They split the wait into ward-to-theater travel, anesthesia lead time, and room preparation.
The surprise: total waits matched between saved and lost flaps, about seventy-eight minutes each. No single delay segment predicted failure. Lost flaps trended toward longer anesthesia and longer operations, hints of harder cases rather than slower logistics. Weekend operations failed somewhat more often. The authors advise improving recognition and decision speed, plus anesthesia-surgery coordination, over shaving transport minutes.
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| CREATOR | Alexander Fiedler, Nesrin Ibrahim, Maria Füth, Tatjana Katharina Fricke, Sonja Verena Schmidt, Felix Reinkemeier, Flemming Puscz, Yonca Steubing, Marcus Lehnhardt, Christoph Wallner, Marius Drysch |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |