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BJS AcademyApr 15, 2024
Highlights: April 2024
Presented by Mr. Jonothan Earnshaw, BJS Academy Director, this series is designed to keep you up to date with recent activity on the BJS Academy open access platform. This episode is the fourth in our bi-monthly highlights newsletter series.
Best ergonomic practices: robotic surgery
Unlocking tips to optimize ergonomics in order to prevent pain and discomfort for the surgeon as well as make surgery safer for all. Presented by Julie Hallet, MD, MSc, and Jenny Meng Shao Kashmanian, MD, FACS.
RCT: Preoperative intravenous iron and the risk of blood transfusion in colorectal cancer surgery: meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials
Lederhuber H, Massey LH, Abeysiri S, Roman MA, Rajaretnam N, McDermott FD et al.
Br J Surg 2024; 111: znad320.
https://academic.oup.com/bjs/article/111/1/znad320/7438951
This meta-analysis included five RCTs, involving 485 patients. Overall 16.1 per cent of patients received a blood transfusion. Intravenous iron reduced the need for perioperative blood transfusion from 19.5 to 12.7 per cent, P=0.04. Complication rates, mortality and duration of hospital stay were not affected.
Comment: Iron treatment reduced the need for transfusion only. Other significant endpoints were not improved. It’s role remains uncertain.
Highlights: Feb 2024
Presented by Mr. Jonothan Earnshaw, BJS Academy Director, this series is designed to keep you up to date with recent activity on the BJS Academy open access platform. This episode is the third in our bi-monthly highlights newsletter series.
Highlights: Nov 2023
Designed to keep you up to date with recent activity on the BJS Academy open access platform, this is the second in our bi-monthly highlights newsletter series. Presented by Mr. Jonothan Earnshaw, BJS Academy Director.
Highlights: Sept 2023
This series is designed to keep you up to date with recent activity on the BJS Academy open access platform. It will be available on a bi-monthly basis. Listen to Jonothan Earnshaw, BJS Academy Director, run through the highlights of the BJS Academy for September 2023.
Submission Guide: How to write a plain English abstract
An educational podcast for surgeons interested in publishing. Mr Jonothan Earnshaw, BJS Academy Director, provides guidance on how to best write a plain English abstract.
Submission Guides: How to make a podcast
Helpful guidelines on how to make a podcast for BJS Academy. Presented by Mr Jonothan Earnshaw, BJS Academy Director.
Digest - AI: Data, big data, and surgery
(English) Data, big data, and surgery podcast supporting the digest by Julio Mayol, Department of Surgery, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, IdISSC, Universidad Complutense, Madrid.
Digest - AI (Spanish): Data, big data, and surgery
(Espanol) Data, big data, and surgery podcast supporting the digest by Julio Mayol, Department of Surgery, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, IdISSC, Universidad Complutense, Madrid.
Digest: BASIL-2 results explained
Podcast supporting the BASIL-2 results explained digest.
RCT: Optimal management of asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
Stewart Walsh; Chair of Vascular Surgery, University of Galway, Ireland and Clinical Lead, National Surgical Research Support Centre, RCSI; giving an overview of the Randomized Clinical Trial of the month.
RCT: Standardized trauma intake form with clinical decision support prompts improves care and reduces mortality for seriously injured patients in non-tertiary hospitals in Ghana.
A stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial.
RCT: Transcatheter aortic-valve replacement in low-risk patients at five years
Mack MJ, Leon MB, Thourani VH, Pibarot P, Hahn RT, Genereux P et al, for the PARTNER 3 Investigators.
N Engl J Med 2023; 389:1949-1960.
This study included 1000 patients followed for five years. The composite endpoint included death, stroke, and rehospitalization for valve complications. The primary endpoint occurred in 2.8 per cent of patients after TAVI and 27.2 per cent after open surgery, P=0.07.
Comment: Minor differences in outcome, but major advantages of TAVI for patients
RCT: Quality-of-life and recurrence outcomes following laparoscopic elective sigmoid resection vs conservative treatment following diverticulitis
Listen to Alexandre Santos, Gastrointestinal Surgeon at Helsinki University Hospital, provide some insight into the prespecified 2-year analysis of the LASER randomized clinical trial.
BJS Society Award 2023 - Citation
Given by Professor Derek Alderson