Anterior abdominal wall hernias are caused by congenital or acquired weakness of the muscular tissue and fascia that cover the abdominal cavity. The primary symptom is often the swelling of the herniated area of the anterior abdominal wall that spontaneously reduces. If this swelling does not reduce spontaneously or manually, it is called an incarcerated hernia. The primary symptoms of incarceration include pain, nausea and vomiting. Ischaemia occurs in cases where the blood supply to the incarcerated tissue is restricted, eventually progressing to necrosis. This leads to an urgent requirement for surgery, even sometimes tissue or organ resection. 1,2 Despite all their advances in terms of preoperative care, antisepsis, antibiotics, fluid replacement and anaesthesia, the morbidity and mortality rates of emergency operations for incarcerated abdominal wall hernias remain high. 3,4
There is no standardization in videos uploaded to Youtube. Were the videos capable of contributing to adequate technical quality and surgical training? We are aiming to answer these questions in this paper. It is a cross-sectional study. In January 2022, we searched the Youtube platform using the keyword “distal pancreatectomy.” The substantiality, transparency, reliability, quality, popularity and educational values of the video content were evaluated after exclusion criteria. These parameters were evaluated using we the modified Journal of American Medical Association benchmark criteria, Global Quality Score (GQS), Video Power Index, modified laparoscopic pancreatectomy scoring system. The videos uploaded after the pandemic had a statistically significant higher GQS score (P < .001). Video Power Index, like GQS, had a statistically significant difference before and after the pandemic. (P = .046). There was no significant difference in the evaluation of the reliability and substantiality. Until the development of Youtube videos is completed, peer-reviewed, more reliable and content-rich online education platforms should be preferred in the first place. Care should be taken to watch selected videos on Youtube videos.
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