🧵for new residents and students: Over the last year, I've done 9 threads on different suture materials. Included here are links to each of these. I'll leave this 'pinned' for now. They are: Prolene, silk, Vicryl, PDS, Ethibond, Nylon, Monocryl, Chromic, and barbed sutures.

Amazing piece of surgical history

An interesting case of encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis #EPS from my time on the Northwestern Medicine Transplant Northwestern Surgery service last year #VinayakRohan John Friedewald Akansha Agrawal MD Michael Angarone Satish Nadig, MD PhD ectrx.org/detail/archive…

Plenary session in a full room featuring Arnold AATS #AATS2024

Grateful to AATS for selecting me for the Member for a Day Program and pairing me with Dr. Jeff Yang MD FACS #AATS2024

In my opinion, the way to develop your left hand is *not* to try to do exercises to increase its dexterity. The proper use of the left hand is not a matter of dexterity. Rather, it is a state of mind. What you need to work on is how you *think* about using your L hand.

🚨🚨🚨 #ESOPEC🚨🚨🚨 🔥Practice shifting trial🔥 Patients with resectable, locally advanced, esophagus/GEJ adenocarcinoma Randomized Peri-op FLOT (FLOT4) vs Pre-operative chemoradiation (CROSS) Congrats to the study investigators! Let’s dive in! #ASCO24 Mayo Clinic Radiation Oncology 1/

Two #LungCancerScreening #LDCTs 1 yr apart, illustrating the importance of adherence to annual LCS! 2024 LDCT (top) shows a central RUL mass obstructing the ant. RUL bronchus, new since 2023 LDCT (bottom). Assigned Lung-RADS 4X & rec. bx ➡️ positive for #SCLC 🫁 American College of Radiology

The #IJGCvideos 📹 are back! Artem Stepanyan shows a short footage of technique of access to retroperitoneum Full video 👉 bit.ly/45I30Yx Pedro T Ramirez Arthur_HC_Hsu Aarthi S Jayraj Andreina Fernandes IGCS ESGO European Network of Young Gynae Oncologists OncoAlert IJGC Fellows SoMe4GynOnc

Thankful to Western Thoracic Surgical Association for the opportunity to present our #NCDB analysis of patients with cT1cN0M0 #NSCLC. NQUIRES Northwestern Surgery Northwestern CT Surgery Samuel Kim, MD Ankit Bharat, MD FACS

Nice work from Jon Williams showing worse short-term outcomes of lung cancer resection at #privateequity hospitals in a packed room Western Thoracic Surgical Association #WTSA2024 David Odell, MD MS UMich CHOP Fellows Michigan Surgery Michigan CT Surgery Residency

☎️ A frame for residents calling the on call attending:☎️ #TipsForNewDocs “I have a patient with ____ who I think needs ____”… …and then comes the story. 👊 PUNCHLINE FIRST 👊 Why? This changes how the recipient listens, and the old med school model of unfolding a

Thank you SURGERY Journal for publishing our #NSQIP analysis of esophagectomy

Glad to have the opportunity to present our work on ID’ing ways to improve lymph node staging during #lungcancer resection at #ACSQSC24. More to come with the Standard 5.8 QI project led by Kelley Chan David Odell, MD MS NQUIRES Northwestern Surgery NM Pulmonary and Thoracic Surgery

It’s that time of year already 😱 save the date!!

How to choose the right chart for analysis: