David Silver

🚨 New in @JAMASurgery The study by @joshua_b_brown et al highlights the critical importance of clinician-level trauma volume in pre-hospital outcomes. A must-read for those looking to innovate EMS staffing and training! 👇👇👇 doi.org/10.1001/jamasu… @LITESnetwork

Emergency Medical Services #Trauma clinicians with greater annual patient volume demonstrated lower early mortality rates and improved advanced airway procedure outcomes among severely injured patients. ja.ma/46AFRsH

Standardized triage with the AMPT score improved equity in prehospital air transport for trauma patients, reducing disparities and associated mortality regardless of race or ethnicity. ja.ma/3LK0KKq

The new BRIDGE Program at @OSUCCC_James is changing the game for young adult cancer care. Proud that our own #OhioStateSurg surgical oncologist (@smyersMD) Sara Myers, MD, PhD, is co-leading this innovative effort to deliver coordinated care + research for early-onset cancers. 👏

What can a big-city surgeon learn from small-town practice? 🤔 Find out at our next MASTER SURGEON GRAND ROUNDS: We're bridging the gap in surgical care. Don't miss it! 🗓️ Nov 19, 2025 | 🕗 8-9 a.m. #SurgicalInnovation #GrandRounds #MedTwitter @UPMC_SurgRes

Overwhelmingly grateful and excited to be headed to @MayoClinicSurg for Colorectal Surgery fellowship next year!

Defunding federal public health agencies charged with protecting U.S. workers is bad for our workforce and the economy Thank you @NEJM for providing a platform for this issue Full article: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Liling Lu showing field under-triage among patients meeting national field triage guidelines is associated with increased mortality and older adults less likely to go home after injury in a population-based cohort in PA. @PittSurgery @PittTTMRC @PittEMSDocs @acsTrauma #aast2025

🚨 New Guidance from NAEMSP 🚨 The @NAEMSP recently released 6 recommendations on prehospital blood transfusion. Here’s the first one: 👉 “𝐖𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐢𝐝𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭-𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞-𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.” Tomorrow, @TannerSmida and I will be joined by Joshua Brown, MD, MS (@UPMC) — trauma surgeon and first author of this landmark position statement. If you’re in EMS and considering whole blood or blood components in the field, you won’t want to miss this conversation. 🔗 Join via Zoom (Register Here): us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Mark your calendars 🗓️ We’re thrilled to host a virtual showcase of our program on September 18th, at 7:30pm EST before the kick off of the upcoming general surgery residency interview season! Scan the QR code in the attached flyer to get a link to join us. You’ll have a chance to meet our current residents, PD, and faculty to learn more about Pittsburgh and our program! @PittSurgery @AmCollSurgeons @AcademicSurgery @WomenSurgeons @SocietyofBAS @LatinoSurgery @AsianAcadSurg #Match2026 #GeneralSurgery

Lift as you climb 💪 that’s how we do it at @UPMC_SurgRes

Golden Hour Happy Hour #5 in the books! This time feat special guest: @macky_neal! Dr. Neal led us through a fun session of rigorous critique and fiery debate about robotic vs laparoscopic cholecystectomy. As always: good people, good science, and good times! @UPMC_SurgRes

Very excited for the opening of our Pasadena @KeckMedicineUSC center later this year ❤️💛

And a belated congratulations to PGY5 Drew Sayce on his match in pediatric surgery! We are feeling especially lucky that he’ll be sticking around with us here at @ChildrensPgh

PGY-1 ✅ now on to year two! So thankful for the @UPMC_SurgRes family and my amazing cointerns!

We've launched @UPMC_SurgRes - a new space created by some of the voices you loved @PittSurgery. New focus 🎯 with the same spirit . Here is what to expect 📣:

Dr. Sebastian Boland shows potential impact of geriatric patient volume and proportion at trauma centers, showing volume-outcome is not linear & at very high proportions even non-geriatric patient outcomes may start to degrade. @CentralSurg @pitttrauma @PittTTMRC @PittSurgery

We are thrilled to announce that Sowmya Narayanan, MD, PhD, will join @NMSurgery in the Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery. We are excited to have her and look forward to her contributions!

I have not posted anything in 4 years lol but today I started learning how to use GitHub and created my first repository. github.com/codelaparotomy