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Topic: Acute Care Surgery

Video illustration of laparoscopic small bowel resection with anastomosis. Patient is a 33 years old female with history of malrotation and sleeve gastrectomy who presented with acute onset epigast

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Meckel's diverticula are the most common congenital anomaly of the GI tract which is seen in 2-3% of the population. The most common presentation o

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This is a case of a 76 year old female with multiple medical comorbidities, abuse of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs due to chronic knee pain and remote history of laparoscopic paraesophageal

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Intussusception is the most common cause of small bowel obstruction in infants. Ninety percent of the cases are treated non-operatively with air enema reduction. For those cases that fail non-opera

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A 53 year old male with no prior history of abdominal surgery presented to the emergency department with a two day history of abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, and absent flatus and bowel moveme

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Injuries from unintentional ingestion of wire grill-cleaning brush bristles have been increasingly reported in the literature over the past decade. Although a special report was published by

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07/20/2019
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Thoraco-abdominal impalement injuries are rare. Very few cases are reported in literature. There are no set protocols for management of such injuries.

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Exploratory laparotomy (EL) has been widely regarded as the definitive diagnostic and therapeutic modality for abdominal trauma in the US. However, many centers ha

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Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has demonstrated superior outcomes in many elective procedures. It’s use in emergency general surgery (EGS) procedures is n

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The acute care surgery (ACS) model is a concept for provision of emergency general surgery, outside of trauma, which has been adopted among hospitals in the US over t

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Laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy with spleen preservation is one of the standardized procedures in selected cases with distal pancreatic tumors but is technically dem

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The prevalence of colonic diverticular disease increases with age and reaches over 70% in octogenarians. Dietary modification and the use of antibiotics are the main

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Laparoscopic adhesiolysis can be used for small bowel obstruction (SBO); however, conversion to laparotomy is frequent. In this study, we aimed to determine whether p

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To investigate the effect of sarcopenia on postoperative mortality in patients undergoing emergency abdominal surgery and to compare postoperative mortality in patients

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Stump appendicitis is a rare post-operative complication, with an incidence reported in the literature around 1 in 50,000 cases. It poses a diagnostic challenge and c

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During the last 226 adult female appendicectomies, 55 were found to have underwent prior open pelvis floor surgeries. The most common surgeries included LSCS, ovarian cystectomy, salpingo-oophrecto

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Trauma patients have an increased risk of VTE partly due to increased inflammation, and, therefore, are recommended to have increased VTE chemoprophylaxis dosing. A s

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Intra-abdominal abscess (IAA) after laparoscopic appendectomy (LA) is a major cause of morbidity, can prolong hospitalization, and can increase hospital costs. Risk f

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Boerhaave’s syndrome, or effort rupture of the esophagus, is a life-threatening emergency and fatal if left untreated. It is associated with high morbidity and mo

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Laparoscopic cholecystectomy has become the standard of care for symptomatic biliary disease due to its minimally invasive nature and low complication rate. Here we p

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Acute gangrenous cholecystitis mimicking acute cardiovascular diseases may lead to a delay in surgical management of cholecystitis. Common symptoms associated with ischemic heart disease, such as c

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The creation of an acute care surgery (ACS) service has been associated with improved hospital efficiency and clinical outcomes; however, specific guidelines for impl

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Combat injury patterns in Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom have changed as a result of wounding mechanisms and protective gear resulting in patients surviving high

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Military Surgical Symposium Podium Presentations

Pelvic fractures are a common occurrence in combat trauma. However, the fracture pattern and management within the most recent conflicts has yet to be described, espe

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