Endoscopic sinus surgery: a safe procedure among the less experienced surgeons?
ESS is not a risk free procedure. Complications can happen regardless of the surgeońs experience. Patients who are submitted to surgery by residents, under the supervision of a senior doctor, are not at greater risks of complications.
This study was able to prove an independent survival benefit of HEMS in multiple traumatised patients during the last 10 years. Despite this fact, a constant decline of HEMS rescue missions was found in multiple trauma patients due to unknown reasons. We concluded that HEMS should be used more often in case of trauma in order to guarantee the proven benefit for multiple traumatised patients.