Vitreoretinal surgical performance after acute alcohol consumption and hangover.

Marina RoizenblattPeter Louis GehlbachVitor Dias Gomes Barrios MarinArnaldo RoizenblattThiago Marques FidalgoVinicius Silveira SaraivaMauricio Hiroshi NakanamiLuciana Cruz NoiaSung WatanabeErika Sayuri YasakiRenato Magalhães PassosOctaviano Magalhães JuniorRodrigo Antonio Brant FernandesFrancisco Rosa StefaniniRafael CaiadoKim JiramongkolchaiMichel Eid FarahRubens Belfort JuniorMauricio Maia

Published in: The British journal of ophthalmology (2024)

Alcohol-related decline in simulated surgical dexterity among senior vitreoretinal surgeons was dose-dependent. Dexterity improved the following morning but remained comparable to after low-dose alcohol ingestion. Tremor increased during hangover compared with same-day intoxication. Further studies are needed to investigate extrapolations of these data to a real surgical environment regarding patient safety and surgeon performance.

Keyphrases

alcohol consumption
patient safety
low dose
quality improvement
electronic health record
machine learning
big data