Trauma, Critical Care & Acute Care Surgery (TCCACS) 2018, Day 3 Lineup:
- Dr. Bellal Joseph and Dr. Chadwick Smith discuss TXA and TEG
- COL Jennifer Gurney, MD discusses current issues in military surgery and the joy of serving in uniform
This has been a great conference to attend and these were just a small portion of the highlights. A special thanks to Dr. Mattox and Mary Allen for having us once again!
Trauma, Critical Care & Acute Care Surgery (TCCACS) 2018, Day 2 Lineup:
- Dr. Sydney J. Vail, Kids are Different - Damage Control Resuscitation
- Dr. Nicholas Namias, Kids are Different - Severe TBI
- Dr. Jay Johannigman, Navigating the Portal Triad
- Dr. Elizabeth Benjamin, GE Junction Injuries
Trauma, Critical Care & Acute Care Surgery (TCCACS) 2018, Day 1 Lineup:
- Dr. Kenji Inaba on C-spine clearance.
- Dr. Matthew Martin on REBOA battlefield lessons learned.
- Dr. Alison Wilson on tourniquets.
- Dr. Martin Schreiber on transfusion strategies.
- Dr. Chris Cribari on the difficult gallbladder.
- Dr. Lynette Scherer on orthopedic considerations for the trauma surgeon.
Dr. David King (trauma and acute care surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, and Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army) discusses:
- What combat surgery in an austere environment can look like.
- How his experiences in combat and stateside have driven research efforts to develop novel ways to attack massive hemorrhage, such as with ResQFoam.
- How the Boston Marathon bombing showed him that we don't need to convince good people to act and do good things.
- Thoughts on the applicability and limitations of REBOA.
http://www.arsenalmedical.com/foam-system-acute-hemorrhage
Follow Dr. King on Twitter @GeococyxVelox
Woo Do and Jason Bingham interview Dr. Alex Haynes (Director of the Safe Surgery Division at Ariadne Labs and a surgical oncologist at MGH) about the history of surgical checklists, Lifebox, and how sustainable global surgery is about strengthening systems.
To learn more, visit:
lifebox.org
ariadnelabs.org
facebook.com/lifeboxfoundation
twitter.com/SaferSurgery
lifebox.org/thechecklisteffect
Jason Bingham and Woo Do interview leaders of surgical education at the 13th annual Academic Surgical Congress.
Day 3 Lineup:
- Rebecca Sippel (@rebecca_sippel): AAS President Experience, Re-defining Success
- Matthew Martin (@docmartin22): Trauma Resuscitation, TEG/ROTEM
- Joaquim Havens: Emergency General Surgery, Top Surf Spots
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Jason Bingham and Woo Do interview leaders of surgical education at the 13th annual Academic Surgical Congress.
Day 2 Lineup:
- Taylor Riall (@TaylorRiall): SUS President Experience, The Surgeon Scientist
- Jeff Matthews (@JBMatthews): A Chair's Perspective: Do's and Don'ts of Interviewing
- Heather Yeo (@heatheryeomd): Clinical Outcomes Research
- Herbert Chen (@herbchen): Changing Organization Culture
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Jason Bingham and Woo Do interview leaders of surgical education at the 13th annual Academic Surgical Congress.
Day 1 Lineup:
- Jamie Coleman (@JJcolemanMD): social media to amplify your career
- Stefan Holubar (@HolubarStefan): artificial intelligence in the age of the electronic medical record
- Christian Jones (@jonessurgery): acute care surgery fellowship, AI, and social media
- Lillian Kao (@LillianKao1): fundraising for educational initiatives
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Jason Bingham, Kevin Kniery and Woo Do review high-yield miscellaneous topics for the ABSITE, including: peritoneal dialysis catheters, sarcoma, and melanoma.
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Jason Bingham, Kevin Kniery and Woo Do review high-yield breast topics for the ABSITE, including: nipple discharge, fibroadenoma, phyllodes tumor, radial scar, DCIS, LCIS, and breast cancer.
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Check out additional detailed review by our friends at https://surgoncfiles.com
Jason Bingham, Kevin Kniery and Woo Do review high-yield colorectal topics for the ABSITE, including: inflammatory bowel disease, colon cancer, rectal cancer, and anal squamous neoplasms.
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Jason Bingham, Kevin Kniery and Woo Do review high-yield colorectal topics for the ABSITE, including: anal fissures, anorectal abscesses, fistula-in-ano, diverticulitis, C. diff infection, colonic volvulus, Ogilvie's syndrome, and rectal prolapse.
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Review anorectal anatomy here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20109629
Jason Bingham, Kevin Kniery, John McClellan and Woo Do review high-yield adrenal topics for the ABSITE, including: hyperaldosteronism, Cushing syndrome, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, adrenal incidentaloma, adrenocortical carcinoma, pheochromocytoma.
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Review the congenital adrenal hyperplasia mnemonic here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7gGATYUW7A
Jason Bingham, Kevin Kniery and Woo Do review high-yield hepatobiliary topics for the ABSITE, including: choledochal cysts, hepatic cysts, hemangiomas, focal nodular hyperplasia, adenomas, hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, gallbladder cancer.
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Review the liver segments here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4061562/
Jason Bingham, Kevin Kniery and Woo Do review high-yield hepatobiliary topics for the ABSITE, including: benign biliary disease, portal hypertension, and liver abscesses. Subscribe to our mailing list here: http://eepurl.com/df5OTr
Jason Bingham, Kevin Kniery and Woo Do review high-yield topics related to the spleen, to include: splenic trauma, hematologic disorders, splenic lesions, splenic artery aneurysms, and post-splenectomy infection. Subscribe to our mailing list here: http://eepurl.com/df5OTr
Jason Bingham, Kevin Kniery and Woo Do review high-yield topics related to the stomach, to include: hiatal hernias, gastroduodenal ulcer disease, GERD, post-gastrectomy syndromes, and gastric cancer. Subscribe to our mailing list here: http://eepurl.com/df5OTr
Jason Bingham, Kevin Kniery and Woo Do review high-yield topics related to the esophagus, to include: esophageal perforation, motility disorders, diverticula, Barrett's esophagus, and esophageal cancer. Subscribe to our mailing list here: http://eepurl.com/df5OTr
Jason Bingham, Kevin Kniery and Woo Do discuss high-yield parathyroid topics, to include: PTH, calcitonin, hypercalcemia, hyperparathyroidism (primary vs. secondary vs. tertiary), and parathyroid cancer.
Jason Bingham, Kevin Kniery and Woo Do discuss high-yield thyroid topics, to include: hyperthyroidism, Grave's disease, toxic multinodular goiter, thyroiditis, workup of the palpable thyroid nodule, and thyroid cancer (papillary vs. follicular vs. medullary).
Dr. Michael Sabel (Chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology at the University of Michigan and a world-renowned leader in breast cancer and melanoma) returns to BTK to take resident Vahagn Nikolian through three challenging breast and melanoma scenarios.
This episode is brought to you by Prytime Medical (prytimemedical.com), maker of the ER-REBOA catheter for Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta.
In our first-ever sponsored episode, Drs. Steve Smith (University of Florida) and Joseph Ibrahim (Orlando Health) discuss the lessons learned from building REBOA programs at their respective institutions.
The study of REBOA and traumatic brain injury referenced by Dr. Smith can be viewed here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28452884/
This week on BTK we talk with Dr. Hasan Alam regarding his work in developing QuickClot, a field hemostatic agent. We also discuss whether the "Golden Hour" needs to be revisited and revised, his experiences during the September 11th attacks on the Pentagon, and finally he talks us through his research in EPR (Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation).
Great talk from a well-known and experienced trauma surgeon!
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Behind the Knife coverage of the 2017 American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress: Dr. Sharmila Dissanaike (Chair of Surgery at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center) takes Woo Do and Dominic Forte through her technique for a subtotal cholecystectomy.
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