Most important: Document it!
As doctors you have a certain leeway and are allowed a little flexibility in your approach to treatment as long as one doesn& #39;t get reckless. So if moving into uncharted territory, document it on all case files what you are doing and why.

Often I get into scenes where I would or would not like to operate a patient while many others would take a contrary stand. I make sure the rationale of my decision is on paper. That makes you medicolegally safe as well as allows you individual thinking.