Main Written Summaries Listing Audio-Digest Foundation: Archived Written Summaries: General Surgery: 2009 PEDIATRIC SURGICAL ISSUES Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 56, Issue 24 December 21, 2009 Pediatric spine surgery – Patrick Bosch, MD Craniosynostosis – Erich P. Marchand, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From Current Concepts in General Surgery 2009, sponsored by the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM BLOOD SUBSTITUTES AND TRANSFUSION THERAPY Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 56, Issue 23 December 7, 2009 What's new in blood substitutes for trauma resuscitation? – David B. Hoyt, MD New concepts in transfusion therapy in the critically injured patient – John B. Holcomb, MD Phony blood: what's the problem? – Lynette A. Scherer, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. ETHICAL AND LEGAL CONFLICTS IN MEDICINE Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 56, Issue 22 November 21, 2009 Board and medical staff leadership duties and potential liability – Andrew R. H. Newton, JD Ethics and pay–for–performance – David J. Satin, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. STOMACH Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 56, Issue 21 November 7, 2009 Current status of peptic ulcer surgery – David G. Fromm, MD Gastroesophageal: acid/nonacid reflux and heartburn – David C. Metz, MD Motility Disorders of the Small Bowel and Stomach – Michael G. Sarr, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From The 73rd Annual Surgery Course, Advances In Gastrointestinal And GI Laparoscopic Surgery, Sponsored By The University Of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis ESOPHAGUS Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 56, Issue 20 October 21, 2009 Management of complex esophageal strictures – H. Worth Boyce, MD Esophageal perforations: diagnosis and treatment – Jeffrey H. Peters, MD Primary repair of long esophageal atresias and strictures – John E. Foker, MD, PhD Repair of Paraesophageal Hernia – Aurora D. Pryor, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. ADVANCES IN THE TREATMENT OF COLORECTAL DISEASE Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 56, Issue 19 October 7, 2009 Adjuvant treatment for colorectal cancer – David P. Ryan, MD Rectal prolapse: what are the options? – Bard C. Cosman, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. ISSUES IN ENDOCRINE SURGERY Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 56, Issue 18 September 21, 2009 How to avoid complications in thyroid surgery – Orlo C. Clark, MD Management of the patient with Graves and Plummer’s disease – Wen T. Shen, MD Ethics and endocrine surgery – Peter Angelos, MD, PhD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. BREAD AND BUTTER SURGERY Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 56, Issue 17 September 7, 2009 Preventing surgical site infection: data or dogma? – Robert G. Martindale, MD, PhD Management of complicated diverticulitis – Bruce G. Wolff, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From The 38th Annual Postgraduate Course In Surgery, Sponsored By The Medical University Of South Carolina, April 16-18, 2009 COLORECTAL AND PANCREATIC SURGERY Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 56, Issue 16 August 21, 2009 Ulcerative colitis: surgical indications and controversies – Madhulika G. Varma, MD Pancreatic cancer – Kimberly S. Kirkwood, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From The Postgraduate Course In General Surgery, Sponsored By The University Of California, San Francisco, School Of Medicine, March 19-21, 2009 MEDICAL ERRORS/THE FUTURE OF SURGERY Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 56, Issue 15 August 7, 2009 Medical errors: lessons from Florida – Christopher L. Nuland, JD The future direction of American surgery – James E. Goodnight MD, PhD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. ABDOMINAL TRAUMA SURGERY Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 56, Issue 14 July 21, 2009 Management of the GI tract in the open abdomen – Joseph H. Patton, Jr., MD Abdominal trauma: when to watch and when to operate – Norman E. McSwain, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From Detroit Trauma Symposium, Sponsored By Detroit Receiving Hospital And Wayne State University School Of Medicine THYROID SURGERY Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 56, Issue 13 July 7, 2009 The comprehensive evaluation of thyroid nodules – Cord Sturgeon, MD Thyroidectomy for hyperthyroidism: indications, extent, and timing – Cord Sturgeon, MD Asymptomatic hyperparathyroidism: update from 2008 AACE consensus conference – Cord Sturgeon, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From The 37th Annual Phoenix Surgical Symposium Sponsored By The Phoenix Surgical Society GI SURGERY Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 56, Issue 12 June 21, 2009 Complex fistula–in–ano: to clog or cloak? – Jeffrey A. Sternberg, MD Bowel preparation for elective colorectal surgery: helpful or harmful? – Michael J. Stamos, MD What's new in GERD surgery? – David W. Easter, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. WEIGHTY SURGICAL ISSUES Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 56, Issue 11 June 7, 2009 Bariatric surgery in patients with liver cirrhosis – Michael G. Sarr, MD Nutritional aspects in bariatric patients – George L. Blackburn, MD, PhD Neuromodulation for diabetes and weight loss/vagal block – Scott A. Shikora, MD Transoral revision of gastric bypass – Michael Schweitzer, MD Transplantation, renal failure, and bariatric surgery – Aurora D. Pryor, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. ANTICOAGULANTS AND BLOOD Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 56, Issue 10 May 21, 2009 An update on DVT/PE prophylaxis – Robert C. Pendleton, MD New anticoagulants on the horizon: is a change upon us? – Dr. Pendleton There will be (bad) blood – Lawrence N. Diebel, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. TRAUMA LESSONS FROM THE MILITARY Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 56, Issue 09 May 7, 2009 Update on damage control laparotomy – David V. Feliciano, MD Lessons learned from the Iraq conflict – John B. Holcomb, MD Keeping the plane in the air: effect of a quality improvement (QI) checklist – Joseph J. DuBose, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. ISSUES IN THE PELVIC REGION Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 56, Issue 08 April 21, 2009 What is the best way to fix an inguinal hernia? the data – Leigh A. Neumayer, MD Optimal care of pelvic fractures – Ronald V. Maier, MD Eradicating condyloma acuminata – Martin A. Luchtefeld, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. RENAL FAILURE/HYPERBARIC MEDICINE Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 56, Issue 07 April 7, 2009 Acute renal failure – David M. Ward, MD Hyperbaric oxygen therapy: indications and techniques – Ian Grover, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From The 31st Annual San Diego Postgraduate Assembly In Surgery, Presented By The University Of California, San Diego, School Of Medicine And The Foundation For Surgical Education, And Jointly Sponsored By The Institute For Medical Studies A NEW LOOK AT SURGERY Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 56, Issue 06 March 21, 2009 Physiology of a triathlete: similarities to ICU patients – Joseph M. Galante, MD Educating surgeons in the future – Lynette Scherer, MD Preparation, innovation, and persistence translates into research success: the development of TPN – Stanley J. Dudrick, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. LAPAROSCOPY UPDATE Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 56, Issue 05 March 7, 2009 Laparoscopic surgery in children – Andre Hebra, MD Controversies in pelvic pouch surgery: laparoscopic pouch surgery – Steven D. Wexner, MD Technical challenges: avoiding laparoscopic complications – Steven D. Schwaitzberg, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. CANCER IN THE FAMILY/PANCREATIC CANCER Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 56, Issue 04 February 21, 2009 The evaluation of patients for familial cancer risk – Lori Ballinger, MS Pancreatic cancer: no room for nihilism – Howard A. Reber, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. TRAUMA TIME: PART 2 Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 56, Issue 03 February 7, 2009 Management of peripheral vascular injuries – A. Brent Eastman, MD The myth of nonoperative management of liver trauma – Donald D. Trunkey, MD Burn wound excision – David N. Herndon, MD Cavitary endoscopy in trauma – L.D. Britt, MD, MPH Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. TRAUMA TIME: PART 1 Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 56, Issue 02 January 21, 2009 New strategies for trauma resuscitation – Gregory J. Beilman, MD Current concepts in transfusion – Jonathan L. Marinaro, MD Trauma ultrasonography – M. Margaret Knudson, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. BREAST CANCER SURGERY Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 56, Issue 01 January 7, 2009 Mastectomy in the 21st century: what's new in surgical therapy for breast cancer? – Leigh A. Neumayer, MD, MS Advances in breast reconstruction – Patrick J. O'Neill, MD Breast cancer management in the pregnant patient – Anne Marie Wallace, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program.