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🚨New publication alert🚨 📖 Our latest @GOALTrauma study has just been published in Lancet @eClinicalMed 🩸We explore current blood transfusion strategies globally and highlight some potential determinants of patient outcomes thelancet.com/journals/eclin… A 🧵...

Do you use it routinely?

Do you use it routinely in your practice?

Viewpoint: #MandM conferences benefit surgeon moral development by fostering personal responsibility, reflection, and a mindset for improvement in #Surgery. @pangelos1 @seancwightman ja.ma/48M12rL

Rectus diastasis repair with and without mesh at 1 year: randomized clinical trial ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/bjs/zn… This #RCT compared plication supported by mesh (PSUM) with suture plication for rectus diastasis (RD) repair in 84 women 📈PSUM resulted in greater inter-rectus distance (IRD) reduction, while both techniques improved health-related quality of life, motor control, and low back function 💡PSUM enhances IRD reduction and provides added linea alba plication stability, with the complication rate similar between groups #SoMe4Surgery #MedTwitter #SurgEd #Surgery @RCPSGTrainees @aecirujanos @SEIQuirurgica @iss_sic #MedicalTechniques @BJSAcademy @young_bjs @BJSOpen @des_winter @evanscolorectal @robhinchliffe1 @bplwijn @MalinASund @nfmkok @TejedorPat @paulo_sutt @PVaughanShaw @JJEarnshaw @juliomayol @ksoreide @eurohernias #hernia

🔥 Sudeck and Griffith points in ischemic colitis ✅ EndoCollab

⏰ Less that two weeks remaining to submit an abstract for the #ASGBI2026 @BJSurgery Prize! The deadline is Monday 22nd December. Find out more here: events.asgbi.org.uk

Great day at the International #pilonidalsinus Conference. Take home - DO NOT CUT A BIG HOLE IN ANYONE'S NATAL CLEFT as 1st line treatment. If you do you risk causing years of misery from unhealed wounds. #DontMakeTheTreatmentWorseThanTheDisease @susannehaas9 @stevebrownsheff

@GlobalSurgery @WJSurgery @rcsed @RCSnews @AmerColSurg @COSECSA @RCSI_Irl @ASiTnews @IHPBA @AmerHerniaSoc @EHS_online @BHS_UK @Dukes_Club @ROUX_x @AmerColSurg @RCSnews @COSECSA

• Open mesh (Lichtenstein) = first-line for primary hernias • Laparoscopic (TEP/TAPP) preferred for bilateral or recurrent cases For clear, exam-ready surgical teaching: 👉 teachmesurgery.com/general/small-… #SurgEd #MedEd #SurgTwitter #FOAMed #InguinalHernia

Inguinal Hernias: • Indirect (80%) → lateral to inferior epigastric vessels • Direct (20%) → medial, through Hesselbach’s triangle • Risk ↑ with age, male sex, raised intra-abdominal pressure • Strangulation risk ≈ 2%/yr — urgent exploration if suspected

JSES IllustCon 40 📌Bottom-first approach for obturator lymph node dissection in rectal cancer 📝A ventral approach from the vas deferens (round ligament) provides wide-view direct access to distal obturator nodes often involved in lower rectal cancer. 🖊Yatabe Yusuke #JSESイラストコンテスト　#JSES_illustration_contest

Ready to level up your lap chole game? In this short video @georgoff offers up tips & tricks to make your next gallbladder the best one yet 👇🏼👇🏼

Inguinal hernia model available for UK Residents from Feb/March next year. forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Response…

LAP CBD EXPLORATION VIDEO SERIES 👇🏼 ➡️ app.behindtheknife.org/video-playlist…

What’s the secret to being a good doctor?

I spoke with @BigThink about why even the most experienced professionals need a coach — including surgeons. It’s one of the most under-utilized ways people improve. Video: youtu.be/tW7ClAexgHI?si…

What helps trainees grow into confident, evidence-led surgeons? In November's #Bulletin, @SocSARS sets out how research is key in building sharper thinking, better decision making & more precise understanding of evolving surgical practice: ow.ly/GvCi50XtuY7 @ASiTofficial

New EAST guideline for management of acute incarcerate or strangulated inguinal hernias! #EAST #Hernia #AcuteCareSurgery @EAST_Trauma; @mfarrellmd; @jordanmkirsch; @notoriousRBGmd; @Alistair_MD; @ajperezmdmph journals.lww.com/jtrauma/abstra…

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