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The nature of reconstructive plastic surgery poses challenges to achieving reliable outcomes. The time to plan and gather data is often limited by the unpredictability of the surgery immediately preceding reconstruction. With inadequate data to make fully informed choices, successful reconstructive surgeons rely heavily on experience, preparation, and optimization of resources. While experience is helpful in deciding what to do at each step of a complex reconstructive problem, developing checklists and allowing a sequence of steps to become habitual can improve safety by reducing errors of poor planning. Communication between specialists, anticipation of potential pitfalls, and careful resource management is also vital to safe and efficient surgical plan execution.
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Ray, E., Srinivasa, D.R., Sherman, R. (2020). Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. In: Cohen, T.N., Ley, E.J., Gewertz, B.L. (eds) Human Factors in Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53127-0_19
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