

Nik Machairas
520 posts

@nmachair
Assistant Professor @UOAofficial MD, PhD, FACS HPB Surgery / Liver Transplant / 🧬🦀🔪 @UOAofficial x @RoyalFreeNHS x @MayoClinic


















Piperacillin/tazobactam for surgical prophylaxis during pancreatoduodenectomy: meta-analysis ➡️doi.org/10.1093/bjsope… Piperacillin/tazobactam as antimicrobial prophylaxis significantly lowers the risk of postoperative surgical-site infections, major surgical complications (complications classified as Clavien–Dindo grade greater than or equal to III), clinically relevant postoperative pancreatic fistulas (grades B and C), and mortality, hence supporting the implementation of piperacillin/tazobactam for surgical prophylaxis in current practice. 👏👏👏@JayKumar_MD_PhD, Isabella Reccia, Adriano Carneiro, Mauro Podda, Francesco Virdis, Nikolaos Machairas, David Nasralla, Ramesh P Arasaradnam, Kenneth Poon, Christopher J Gannon, John J Fung, Nagy Habib, Omar Llaguna #SoMe4Surgery #MedTwitter #SurgEd #Surgery @me4_so @for_surgery @for_surgeons @modern_surgeon @surggpt #some4hpb #some4tpl @hpb_so #PancreaticCancer #Pancreatitis @YouppiePancreas @German_PancClub @surgery_hps #PancreasClub2023 @PancreasClub @EurPancClub @P_C_E_ @dice_europe @DPCG_official @pancreatitis_nl @PanCAN #PanCANawareness



















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Pancreatic cysts 🧐 When to Stop Surveillance ?! 🔥 A burning issue on @AmJGastro 🛑 STOP of follow-up depends on interval stability and size either after 5 or 10 years Oversurveillance discouraged 🤜🤛 More evidence needed !!! Your practice ?! 😱 journals.lww.com/ajg/Fulltext/9…



Today a great @BJSurgery meeting and tomorrow is the World Pancreatic Cancer day 💜 😢 Pancreas surgery still associated to poor outcomes worldwide 🌍 In low human development index countries 🔺failure to rescue 🛟 Urgent measures needed! 🆓 access! academic.oup.com/bjs/advance-ar…