Department of Pediatric Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India; Members of the World Federation of Association of Pediatric Surgeons Facebook Group, Egypt.
Department of Pediatric Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India; Members of the World Federation of Association of Pediatric Surgeons Facebook Group; WOFAPS Council Member, WOFAPS Education Committee Member and Facebook Content Incharge, Egypt.
Afr J Paediatr Surg. 2022 Oct-Dec;19(4):209-212. doi: 10.4103/ajps.ajps_140_21.
Social media platforms are popular places for discussing difficult cases amongst the surgeons. Paediatric Surgeon's Lounge (PSL) is a closed Facebook group for the interaction of paediatric surgeons from different parts of the world. We aim to assess the safety and utility of the responses given by the members of the PSL group to the queries about the management of paediatric surgical cases.
All posts on PSL between January and July 2021 were retrospectively screened to select the patient management-related queries. For each included query, all the responses were scrutinised for their utility and safety. The utility was categorised as helpful or not helpful, and the safety of these responses was categorised as safe or unsafe. A note was also made whether any unsafe response was rectified in the subsequent responses or not. The proportion of each response category was calculated.
Twenty-two queries with a total of 353 responses were assessed. The median (range) number of responses per query was 10 (2-45). The proportion of helpful, safe and rectified unsafe responses was 91.5% (307/353), 96.8% (342/353) and 36% (4/11), respectively.
PSL is a safe and helpful platform for taking advice regarding the management of paediatric surgical cases.
社交媒体平台是外科医生讨论疑难病例的热门场所。儿科外科医生休息室（PSL）是一个封闭的 Facebook 群组，供来自世界各地的儿科外科医生互动。我们旨在评估 PSL 群组的成员对儿科外科病例管理查询的回复的安全性和实用性。
回顾性筛选 2021 年 1 月至 7 月期间 PSL 上的所有帖子，以选择与患者管理相关的查询。对于每个包含的查询，都仔细检查了所有回复的实用性和安全性。实用性分为有帮助和无帮助两类，这些回复的安全性分为安全和不安全两类。还注意了不安全回复是否在后续回复中得到纠正。计算了每个回复类别的比例。
评估了 22 个查询，共 353 个回复。每个查询的中位数（范围）回复数为 10（2-45）。有帮助、安全和纠正的不安全回复的比例分别为 91.5%（307/353）、96.8%（342/353）和 36%（4/11）。
PSL 是一个安全且有用的平台，可提供有关儿科外科病例管理的建议。
