Main Written Summaries Listing Audio-Digest Foundation: Archived Written Summaries: General Surgery: 2005 HERNIA MANAGEMENT Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 52, Issue 24 December 21, 2005 Laparoscopic vs open inguinal herniorrhaphy – Robert J. Fitzgibbons, Jr, MD Treatment of ventral hernias – Dr. Fitzgibbons Other methods of inguinal hernia repair – Dr. Fitzgibbons Laparoscopic management of paraesophageal hiatal hernia – Nathaniel J. Soper, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. TOPICS IN BREAST DISEASE Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 52, Issue 23 December 7, 2005 Ultrasound in breast surgery practice – Rache M. Simmons, MD Bone marrow aspiration in breast cancer – Dr. Simmons Ablation therapy for benign and malignant breast disease – Dr. Simmons Breast cancer: new ways to block estrogen – Helen K. Chew, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. HEPATIC AND PANCREATIC TRAUMA Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 52, Issue 22 November 21, 2005 Pancreatic trauma – Norman E. McSwain, Jr, MD The fractured liver – David H. Wisner, MD Percutaneous catheter management of biliary trauma – John T. Owings, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. CRITICAL CARE Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 52, Issue 21 November 7, 2005 Managing the trauma patient who arrives with anticoagulants on board – John T. Owings, MD When can you trust CT diagnosis of pulmonary embolism? – John T. Anderson, MD Cytokines you should know – Lynette A. Scherer, MD Ventilator-associated pneumonia – Felix D. Battistella, MD End points of resuscitation – James W. Davis, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. TOPICS IN ONCOLOGY Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 52, Issue 20 October 21, 2005 Ampullary cancer – Lygia Stewart, MD Gallbladder cancer – Carlos Corvera, MD Stomach cancer – Kimberly S. Kirkwood, MD Peritoneal carcinomatosis – Robert S. Warren, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From The University Of California, San Francisco, School Of Medicine's Postgraduate Course In General Surgery 2005 PERIOPERATIVE ISSUES Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 52, Issue 19 October 7, 2005 Indications for blood transfusion in anemic surgical patients – Eugene Shafton, MD Perioperative cardiac risk reduction strategies for the surgical patient – Arthur Wallace, MD, PhD Managing the cirrhotic who needs abdominal surgery – Karen Deveney, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. Selections From The University Of California, San Francisco, School Of Medicine's Postgraduate Course In General Surgery 2005 INTERNAL BLEEDING: OUR EPIDEMIC OF MEDICAL MISTAKES Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 52, Issue 18 September 21, 2005 IOM report – Robert M. Wachter, MD Case discussion – Robert M. Wachter, MD "Swiss cheese model" of errors – Robert M. Wachter, MD Creating safer systems – Robert M. Wachter, MD Questions and answers – Robert M. Wachter, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine's 19th Annual Primary Care Medicine: Principles and Practice DNR ORDERS Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 52, Issue 17 September 7, 2005 Glenn J. Treisman, MD, PhD Opening case; Medical decision making; History of DNR orders at Hopkins; Self-determination act; Euthanasia; Slippery slope; Summary Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From the 10th Annual Hepato-Bilary Update sponsored by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine DAMAGE CONTROL SURGERY Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 52, Issue 16 August 21, 2005 Damage control surgery: the new paradigm – Joseph F. Rappold, MD Vascular emergencies – Niren Angle, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine's Critical Care Summer Session TOPICS IN GASTROINTESTINAL CANCER Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 52, Issue 15 August 7, 2005 Hepatocellular cancer: the new epidemic – Robert R. Schade, MD Current issues in the surgical management of colon cancer – John D. Mellinger, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From the Medical College of Georgia's 9th Annual Medical and Surgical Approaches to GI Disorders