[
    {
        "id": "osp-12312",
        "type": "article-journal",
        "title": "Can trainees perform Ahmed glaucoma valve surgery as effectively as attendings?",
        "author": [
            {
                "family": "Ustaoglu",
                "given": "Melih"
            },
            {
                "family": "Huynh",
                "given": "Hugh"
            },
            {
                "family": "Esin",
                "given": "Sharmenie"
            },
            {
                "family": "Shukla",
                "given": "Aakriti Garg"
            },
            {
                "family": "Razeghinejad",
                "given": "Reza"
            }
        ],
        "URL": "https://omanscience.com/en/articles/can-trainees-perform-ahmed-glaucoma-valve-surgery-as-effectively-as-attendings",
        "language": "en",
        "issued": {
            "date-parts": [
                [
                    2022
                ]
            ]
        },
        "container-title": "Oman Journal of Ophthalmology",
        "volume": "15",
        "issue": "1",
        "page": "31-35",
        "DOI": "10.4103/ojo.ojo_412_20",
        "publisher": "Medknow Publications",
        "ISSN": "0974-620X",
        "abstract": "Objective: To compare the surgical outcomes and early postoperative complications of Ahmed glaucoma valve (AGV) implantation performed by residents with those performed by attending physicians.\n\nMethods: This is a retrospective, case-control study. Data were gathered from chart reviews of consecutive cases of AGV model FP7 implantation between January 2014 and July 2017. Postoperative 1-year results of patients who had at least 3 months follow-up were evaluated.\n\nResults: One hundred and forty-four eyes of 144 patients were included in this study: 72 patients in the resident group, and 72 age- and sex-matched patients in the attending group. Hyphema and shallow anterior chamber were significantly more common in the resident group vs. attending group (25% vs. 2.8% and 19.4% vs. 7.0%; P = 0.001 and P = 0.04, respectively). Neovascular glaucoma (NVG) was more common in resident vs. attending group (30.6% vs. 1.4%; P < 0.001). No significant difference in mean intraocular pressure (IOP) was found at any postoperative follow-up visits between the surgery groups (P > 0.05, for all). The number of postoperative visits within 3 months was similar between the groups (P = 0.84).\n\nConclusion: Resident-performed AGV surgery lowered IOP, similar to attending-performed surgery. More frequent complications were observed in the resident group, which might be due to the predominance of NVG in this group."
    }
]