Main Written Summaries Listing Audio-Digest Foundation: Archived Written Summaries: General Surgery: 2007 ADVANCES IN BREAST CANCER Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 54, Issue 24 December 21, 2007 Partial breast irradiation in the management of breast cancer – Megan Baker Ruppel, MD What surgeons should know about adjuvant systemic therapy – Merrick I. Ross, MD Controversies in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with ductal cancer in situ (DCIS) – Kelly M. McMasters, MD, PhD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. NEW HORIZONS IN SURGERY Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 54, Issue 23 December 7, 2007 Safe incorporation of new technology into clinical practice – Jon A. Van Heerden, MD Searching for the leakproof anastomosis – James W. Fleshman, Jr, MD Is bowel preparation necessary? – Scott A. Strong, MD New imaging techniques – Dr. Strong Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. CANCER: PART 2 Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 54, Issue 22 November 21, 2007 Nonfunctioning neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas – Michael Bouvet, MD Nonresection image–guided techniques for hepatocellular carcinoma: TACE vs yttrium 90 vs alcohol injection vs RFA – Steven C. Rose, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From The 30th Annual San Diego Postgraduate Assembly In Surgery, Sponsored By The University Of California, San Diego, School Of Medicine CANCER: PART 1 Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 54, Issue 21 November 7, 2007 Cancer of the gastroesophageal junction – Alex G. Little, MD Palliation of periampullary tumors – Larry C. Carey, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From The 30th Annual San Diego Postgraduate Assembly In Surgery, Sponsored By The University Of California, San Diego, School Of Medicine, Department Of Surgery OBESITY SURGERY Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 54, Issue 20 October 21, 2007 Patient selection in bariatric surgery – Scott Shikora, MD Choosing the right bariatric operation – Bruce Schirmer, MD Technique of RYGBP, EEA or linear stapler, antecolic or retrocolic: does the length of the limb matter? – Daniel M. Herron, MD Long limb malabsorptive RYGBP – Robert E. Brolin, MD Bariatric surgery in the elderly – Dr. Herron Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. TRAUMA TO GO Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 54, Issue 19 October 7, 2007 the ICU for resuscitation – R. Stephen Smith, MDB Complex Liver Injury Debate: pack–and–go to angiography – Michael J. Sise, MD Splenectomy in pediatric patients: a preventable complication? – Jeffrey S. Upperman, MD Plain films for trauma: what's needed, what's not – Mark K. Eckstein, MD Preventable deaths: lessons learned at a mature trauma center – Kenji Inaba, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From 14th Annual USC Trauma/Critical Care Symposium CHANGING TIDE OF SURGERY Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 54, Issue 18 September 21, 2007 The organ donation breakthrough collaborative: how far have we come? – Bradley J. Roth, MD The acute care surgeon: has its time come? – David B. Hoyt, MD Debate: Trauma patients should be treated with β–blockers, M. Margaret Knudson, MD/β–Blockers in trauma patients are nothing but heresy, Jay A. Johannigman, MD – M. Margaret Knudson, MD & Jay A. Johannigman, MD Battlefield medicine: lessons learned from Iraq – C. William Schwab, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. PANCREATIC UPDATE Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 54, Issue 17 September 7, 2007 Intraductal papillary mucin–secreting neoplasm of the pancreas (IPMN) – Waddah B. Al–Refaie, MD Pancreas – James A. Schulak, MD Pancreatic necrosectomy – Michael G. Sarr, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. IBD SURGERY Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 54, Issue 16 August 21, 2007 Optimal management of anorectal Crohn's disease – Ann Lowry, MD Current surgical management of Crohn's disease – Victor W. Fazio, MD Remicade, cyclosporin, steroids: when enough is enough in ulcerative colitis – John H. Pemberton, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. LAPAROSCOPY Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 54, Issue 15 August 7, 2007 How to acquire and master advanced laparoscopic techniques – Lee L. Swanstrom, MD The role of the hand – James W. Fleshman, Jr, MD Challenges in laparoscopic colorectal surgery – Charles P. Heise, MD Laparoscopy for rectal prolapse: technique and results – Anthony J. Senagore, MD Laparoscopy for colon cancer: impact on outcome – Heidi Nelson, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. TRAUMA OF SOLID ORGANS Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 54, Issue 14 July 21, 2007 Pushing the nonoperative envelope in hepatic trauma – John A. Weigelt, MD Pushing the nonoperative envelope in splenic trauma – Dr. Weigel Pancreatic trauma – Michael D. McGonigal, MD Sedation: how to get it just right – Edward E. Cornwell III, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. LEARNING ANEW Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 54, Issue 13 July 7, 2007 Use of simulators in learning – John D. Mellinger, MD Pharmacogenomics: importance of minority accruals to clinical trials – Timothy Synold, PharmD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. RECTAL CANCER Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 54, Issue 12 June 21, 2007 Recurrent rectal cancer – David A. Rothenberger, MD Controversies in rectal cancer treatment: variables affecting outcome – Thomas E. Read, MD Rectal cancer: the surgeon is a prognostic factor – D. Scott Lind, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. MELANOMA AND INCIDENTALOMA Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 54, Issue 11 June 7, 2007 Modern melanoma management – David J. Cole, MD Management of adrenal incidentaloma – David R. Farley, MD Novel therapeutics and diagnostics in melanoma – Richard Essner, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. BREAST CANCER TODAY Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 54, Issue 10 May 21, 2007 Evaluation of breast cancer patients – Anne Marie Wallace, MD Breast imaging and benign disease – Rosemary Leeming, MD National programs for improving quality of breast cancer care – Stephen B. Edge, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. AIRWAY, BREATHING, CIRCULATION Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 54, Issue 09 May 7, 2007 Spontaneous breathing on mechanical ventilation – Jonathan L. Marinaro, MD Paradoxes of resuscitation – Philip D. Lumb, MB Pediatric trauma resuscitation: what you need to know – Stephen W. Bickler, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. BARIATRIC SURGERY Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 54, Issue 08 April 21, 2007 The history of the development of bariatric surgical procedures – J. Patrick O'Leary, MD The history of bariatric surgery – J. Patrick O'Leary, MD Complications associated with various procedures for the control of morbid obesity – J. Patrick O'Leary, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From The 34th Annual Phoenix Surgical Symposium Sponsored By Banner Health And The Phoenix Surgical Society BILIARY PROBLEMS Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 54, Issue 07 April 7, 2007 Treatment of patients with sclerosing cholangitis – Henry A. Pitt, MD Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction: noncalculous biliary pain – Walter J. Hogan, MD Management of hepatobiliary tumors – Thomas N. Wang, MD, PhD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. GI ANOMALIES Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 54, Issue 06 March 21, 2007 Acid control in the hospitalized patient: simple questions, complex answers – Robert G. Martindale, MD, PhD Surgical management of diverticular disease – John C. Russell, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program.