Luke Anders

🧵regarding the 'suture ligature' or 'stick tie', or whatever you call it in your part of the world. Here, I'll use my long-suffering chickens to show 3 different methods for doing a 'suture ligature', and we'll go over a couple of pointers that apply to all of them. (1/ )

Went down a rabbit hole for cross-industry innovations (when one industry borrows from another). Here are 8 gems. 1. James Dyson made a bagless vacuum after seeing how sawmills used cyclone force to eject sawdust.

You'll remember that we just said that the needle should be 2 mm from the tips of the jaws. It so happens that many of the packages are such that the needle holder naturally will pick up the needle in that (2 mm) location.

Many times the needles come packaged so that it facilitates picking them up right at one of the two classic locations we just mentioned: -the midpoint (red arrow) -or about 2/3 back (blue arrow)

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Physicians noticed centuries ago that people exposed to cold temperatures often have amazing recoveries from serious medical emergencies. Now medicine is learning how to purposefully induce hypothermia in order to buy time to fix otherwise fatal trauma. omny.fm/shows/stuff-yo…

@Obsessed_Garage Vacuum and hose reel once it’s ready!

Happy New Year 🎆 - What’s going to be your biggest OG purchase of the year?

How an ASD closure device works @georgedrln #medEd

Earthrise. On Christmas Eve of 1968, the Apollo 8 crew photographed Earth rising over the lunar surface as they orbited the Moon. “We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth." – William Anders go.nasa.gov/3GcD3F4

After operating for hours, many surgeons experience neck pain. Here are 6 exercises inspired by yoga that may help:

I performed what is likely the world's first @Rivian powered vasectomy today. Power in clinic went out, patient didn't want to reschedule cause he already had time off. Electrocautery was normal, procedure went great! #rivianstories #rivian

Dr. Luke Anders, PGY-1, (@Luke_Anders3) presenting Inguinal and Femoral Hernias at our Friday afternoon teaching conference! We also had a sim lab to work with the choledochoscope beforehand! Come learn more about our program at our open house on Tuesday 8/30 at 7PM EST!

Defouling the hull of a tanker with an AWE M6 magnetic crawler and hydroblaster.

In 1951, Scottish plastic surgeon Alexander Burns (seriously) Wallace (1906-1974) published his ‘rule of nines’ in The Lancet, created to estimate the percentage of skin surface area, useful for determining the extent of burns, and fluid volume needed for resuscitation.

SpaceX has landed its 125th rocket. Also, if you missed today's Falcon 9 launch don't worry, there's another one in less than two days! Seriously, this cadence is insane.

Mountain Dew - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_…

Automatic 2-brush system for goats by Schurr Gerätebau.

Periodic Table Changes xkcd.com/2639

IT LIVES!!!

Do you call the second episode of @obiwankenobi Obi-Two Kenobi?