Main Written Summaries Listing Audio-Digest Foundation: Archived Written Summaries: General Surgery: 2010 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: THE HIDDEN EPIDEMIC Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 57, Issue 24 December 21, 2010 Incidence; History; Myths and truths; Abuse cycle; Diagnosis; Examples of abuse; Conclusion – James W. Davis, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From The 38th Annual Phoenix Surgical Symposium, Sponsored By The Phoenix Surgical Society NUTRITION AND BARIATRIC SURGERY Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 57, Issue 23 December 7, 2010 Enteral feeding for the critically ill patient – Gail Cresci, PhD, RD Managing nutritional and metabolic complications of bariatric surgery – Robert G. Martindale, MD, PhD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From The 15th Annual Medical And Surgical Approaches To GI Disorders, Presented By The Medical College Of Georgia LIVER Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 57, Issue 22 November 21, 2010 Advances in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma – Ronald W. Busuttil, MD, PhD Diagnosis and treatment of gallbladder cancer – William R. Jarnagin, MD Live donor liver transplantation in adults – Elizabeth A. Pomfret, MD, PhD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From The 74th Annual University Of Minnesota Surgery Course: Advances In Hepatic, Biliary, And Pancreatic Surgery COLORECTAL DISEASE/COMPLICATIONS Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 57, Issue 21 November 7, 2010 Update on national guidelines for screening and surveillance of colorectal neoplasia – Carol A. Burke, MD What you should know about serrated polyps – Matthew F. Kalady, MD Management of the primary tumor in stage IV colorectal disease – Erin Kennedy, MD, PhD Chemotherapy complications – Michael Reedijk, MD, PhD Breast hematoma and seroma – Claire Holloway, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. BILIARY TRACT Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 57, Issue 20 October 21, 2010 Management of biliary tract injuries in the era of laparoscopic cholecystectomies – Keith D. Lillemoe, MD Current management of patients with sclerosing cholangitis – David M. Nagorney, MD, Rochester, MN The difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy – Nathaniel J. Soper, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From The 74th Annual University Of Minnesota Surgery Course: Advances In Hepatic, Biliary, And Pancreatic Surgery SURGICAL ONCOLOGY Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 57, Issue 19 October 7, 2010 Breast cancer genetics – Sarah L. Blair, MD Sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer – Anne Wallace, MD Controversies in management of rectal cancer – Sonia L. Ramamoorthy, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From The 33rd Annual San Diego Postgraduate Assembly In Surgery, Presented By The University Of California, San Diego, School Of Medicine NATURAL ORIFICE TRANSLUMINAL ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 57, Issue 18 September 21, 2010 Ethics of NOTES operations – David Easter, MD NOTES: a training paradigm – Jeffrey L. Ponsky, MD NOTES: transesophageal surgery – Christopher J. Gostout, MD Bacterial contamination and diagnostic utility of NOTES – Jeffrey W. Hazey, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From the 3rd Annual University of California, San Diego, Hands-On NOTES & Single Site Surgery Symposium, presented by the Center for the Future of Surgery and the UCSD Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery TRAUMA TO SOLID ORGANS Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 57, Issue 17 September 7, 2010 Management of blunt spleen injury – Andrew B. Peitzman, MD Current management of hepatic injury – Dr. Peitzman Splenectomy is the safe and easy way – Gregory J. Jurkovich MD Make every effort to save the spleen – Michael J. Sise, MD Question and answer – Dr. Sise Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. ANORECTAL DISEASE Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 57, Issue 16 August 21, 2010 Traditional excisional hemorrhoidectomy – Stanley M. Goldberg, MD Hemorrhoidal dearterialization – Michael P. Spencer, MD Anal fistula – Dr. Spencer Modern alternatives in the management of anal fistula – Alan G. Thorson, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. TRAUMA Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 57, Issue 15 August 7, 2010 Pediatric trauma essentials – Paul W. Wales, MD Regionalization of trauma care – Leigh A. Neumayer, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. LAPAROSCOPIC TECHNIQUE AND DIVERTICULAR DISEASE Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 57, Issue 14 July 21, 2010 Natural history of diverticular disease: when to operate? – Alan G. Thorson, MD Laparoscopic treatment of benign colon disease – Morris E. Franklin Jr, MD Laparoscopic strategy in the previously operated abdomen – Conor P. Delaney, MD, PhD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. NEUROSURGERY/TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 57, Issue 13 July 7, 2010 Surgical therapy for intractable vertigo (including Ménière disease) – Jeffrey P. Harris, MD, PhD Tumor therapy targeting stem cells – John S. Yu, MD Traumatic brain injury – Thomas M. Scalea, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. DISORDERS OF THE FOREGUT Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 57, Issue 12 June 21, 2010 Diagnosis and medical management of Barrett's esophagus – Andrew Ukleja, MD Mucosal ablation – Bipan Chand, MD Surgery for duodenal ulcer – David W. Easter, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 57, Issue 11 June 7, 2010 Techniques for enteral access – Bruce V. MacFadyen Jr, MD Extraesophageal reflux – Gregory N. Postma, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From The 14th Annual Medical And Surgical Approaches To Gi Disorders Symposium, Sponsored By The Medical College Of Georgia BARIATRIC ISSUES Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 57, Issue 10 May 21, 2010 Preoperative and gynecologic evaluation – June La Valleur, MD The high–risk patient – Marc R. Pritzker, MD Iron storage and bariatric surgery – Gregory M. Vercellotti, MD Increasing physical activity in children and teens – Sarah E. Barlow, MD, MPH Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. SMALL BOWEL Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 57, Issue 09 May 7, 2010 Approach to small bowel ischemia – Mark K. Grove, MD Mesenteric vascular disease of the small bowel – Steven M. Santilli, MD Medical and surgical treatment for Clostridium difficile colitis – Judith L. Trudel, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. ACUTE CARE SURGERY: PART 2 Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 57, Issue 08 April 21, 2010 Emergent hemorrhage control – Vikhyat Bebarta, MD Feeding tube blues – Lynette A. Scherer, MD Endovascular approach – Michael J. Sise, MD Medical communications: delivering bad news – Dr. Sise Death assessment: preventable or possibly preventable? – David H. Wisner, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From Trauma, Critical Care, And Acute Care Surgery, Presented By The Trauma And Critical Care Foundation ACUTE CARE SURGERY: PART 1 Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 57, Issue 07 April 7, 2010 Tell me how much it hurts: pain management – M. Margaret Knudson, MD Trauma in the obese patient – Carlos V.R. Brown, MD Great vein injury: repair or ligation? – Gregory J. Jurkovich, MD Bugs and drugs for the critical care surgeon – Philip S. Barie, MD Helicopter transport of patients – Sydney J. Vail, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From Trauma, Critical Care, And Acute Care Surgery, Presented By The Trauma And Critical Care Foundation MINIMAL ACCESS SURGERY Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 57, Issue 06 March 21, 2010 Laparoscopic vs robotic colorectal surgery: when, why, and how? – Sonia L. Ramamoorthy, MD Robotic applications in general surgery – Timothy Perez, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. BREAST ONCOLOGY Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 57, Issue 05 March 7, 2010 The evolving role of surgeons in breast cancer management – David J. Cole, MD Tips on breast–conserving surgery – Claire Holloway, MD Management of breast cancer during pregnancy – Tulin Cil, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. OUTREACH/ETHICS Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 57, Issue 04 February 21, 2010 Death and dying: treating the family – Jonathan R. Hiatt, MD Communication in end–of–life decisions – Lynette Cederquist, MD Conflicts of interest in medicine – Paul F. Mansfield, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. TRAUMA Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 57, Issue 03 February 7, 2010 Techniques and trouble in the management of bowel injuries – Lawrence N. Diebel, MD Controversies in the determination of brain death – Isaac Tawil, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. GASTROINTESTINAL CANCER Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 57, Issue 02 January 21, 2010 Controversies in the surgical management of esophageal and gastroesophageal cancer – Mitchell C. Posner, MD Minimally invasive surgical approaches to esophageal cancer – Mark K. Ferguson, MD Surgical treatment of gastric cancer – Peter W. T. Pisters, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From The Second Annual Gastrointestinal Cancer Symposium, Sponsored By The University Of Chicago Pritzker School Of Medicine, October 9, 2009 CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE Audio-Digest General Surgery Volume 57, Issue 01 January 7, 2010 Management of symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid disease – Anthony J. Comerota, MD Carotid endarterectomy and stroke prevention – William M. Lee, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From Carotid Artery Disease: Diagnosis And Management For The Prevention Of Stroke, The Thirteenth Annual Max R. Gaspar Vascular Disease Symposium, Sponsored By Keck School Of Medicine Of The University Of Southern California