Surgical logbook: a practical guide

For residents, attendings and students who want a defensible record of their operative activity.

A surgical logbook — also called a medical logbook — is your personal record of procedures you perform or assist on: procedure, technique, role, duration, complications and follow-up. It is not the patient chart; it is your structured professional memory.

In training and throughout a career that record supports accreditation, interviews, morbidity review and honest reflection. Suturia is an app built for exactly that job.

What each case entry should include

• Date, hospital and specialty (or service).
• Procedure and technique (the names you use in theatre).
• Your role: primary surgeon, assistant, observer.
• Operative steps and relevant instruments.
• Approximate duration and findings or incidents.
• Brief follow-up when you have it.

How Suturia fits

Suturia is a surgical logbook with voice dictation, a SNOMED CT catalog in English and Spanish, your own technique library, and a printable annual report. Records are pseudonymized: you log the case, not the patient’s identity.

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