Advances In Surgery Channel

Surgical site infection (SSI) accounts for the most common worldwide hospital-acquired infection together with pneumonia. It increases morbidity and mortality and has a great impact on health care costs. Systemic antibiotic prophylaxis decreased SSI rates but we are still far from reducing it to zero. SSI bundle prevention, a group of interventions given all together […]

Dr. Jayne presented the results of the FIAT trial (Fistula In Ano Trial), which involved 50 centers within the UK randomizing 304 patients for the fistula plug versus other surgical treatments for fistula over a 5-year period. The surgical procedures performed were fistulotomy, cutting seton, LIFT, and advancement flap. Approximately 50% of patients had undergone […]

Surgical training is essential for maintaining quality patient outcomes and ensuring surgeons can perform routine and complex procedures. Standard education and training activities are a normal part of a surgeon’s continuing education; but as this training is both time and cost intensive, practitioners searching for robust supplementary models are turning to virtual reality surgical training. Virtual […]

Scott Shikora, MD FACS. Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Director of the Center for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston (Massachusetts, USA) reviews the physiology of the vagal nerve and explains how its neuromodulation may be an alternative to metabolic and bariatric surgery. In this interesting lecture, Dr. Shikora explains the […]

Bariatric surgery is considered to be the most effective treatment for severely obese patients, with surgery resulting in substantial weight reduction, improvement in comorbidities, and reductions in long-term mortality. Despite the great benefits of bariatric surgery, recent literature suggests that some patients may develop addictive or impulse control disorders following bariatric surgery.  Much of this […]

Julio Mayol, medical director at Hospital Clinico San Carlos and Head of the UAI IdI SCC, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, explains the role of social media and big data in the dissemination of surgical knowledge. Although peer-reviewed papers and oral presentations in surgical conferences have been the main ways of disseminating scientific surgery, the […]