Behind the Knife is a comprehensive surgery education platform for healthcare providers at all stages of their training & career. For educational purposes only
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Our new simulator is rocking. Check out this example using our MENTOR function 🤌🏼 🤯
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Do you know the difference between a topical hemostatic agents that cost $75 vs. $1000 💸??
Often used, seldom taught. Take a listen or watch ➡️ behindtheknife.org/podcast/d…
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Demystifying Topical Hemostatic Agents: A Mental Model for Surgeons
The scrub tech holds up two boxes, “SURGICEL or EVARREST?”, and you realize nobody ever taught you the difference! Today @georgoff @Kniery_Bird @mcclellanjm @nickteman break down topical hemostatic agents, one of the most used and least taught tools in the OR. You’ll get a simple two-question model for picking the right product: can your patient make their own clot, and can a patch reach the bleeding? Through trauma, vascular, and cardiac cases, the team covers when these agents earn their keep and when two minutes of pressure (no peeking!) will do the job. Bottom line: hemostatic agents speed up hemostasis, but they’re a targeted adjunct to good surgical technique, not a substitute for it.
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"The goal today is not talk you out of using topical hemostatic agents, it's to make reaching for one a decision and not a reflex."
Demystifying Topical Hemostatic Agents: A Mental Model for Surgeons
The scrub tech holds up two boxes, “SURGICEL or EVARREST?”, and you realize nobody ever taught you the difference! Today @georgoff @Kniery_Bird @mcclellanjm @nickteman break down topical hemostatic agents, one of the most used and least taught tools in the OR. You’ll get a simple two-question model for picking the right product: can your patient make their own clot, and can a patch reach the bleeding? Through trauma, vascular, and cardiac cases, the team covers when these agents earn their keep and when two minutes of pressure (no peeking!) will do the job. Bottom line: hemostatic agents speed up hemostasis, but they’re a targeted adjunct to good surgical technique, not a substitute for it.
🎧 📺 behindtheknife.org/podcast/d…
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Very little teaching out there about using hemostatic agents. This is worth a listen.
Demystifying Topical Hemostatic Agents: A Mental Model for Surgeons
The scrub tech holds up two boxes, “SURGICEL or EVARREST?”, and you realize nobody ever taught you the difference! Today @georgoff @Kniery_Bird @mcclellanjm @nickteman break down topical hemostatic agents, one of the most used and least taught tools in the OR. You’ll get a simple two-question model for picking the right product: can your patient make their own clot, and can a patch reach the bleeding? Through trauma, vascular, and cardiac cases, the team covers when these agents earn their keep and when two minutes of pressure (no peeking!) will do the job. Bottom line: hemostatic agents speed up hemostasis, but they’re a targeted adjunct to good surgical technique, not a substitute for it.
🎧 📺 behindtheknife.org/podcast/d…
Demystifying Topical Hemostatic Agents: A Mental Model for Surgeons
The scrub tech holds up two boxes, “SURGICEL or EVARREST?”, and you realize nobody ever taught you the difference! Today @georgoff @Kniery_Bird @mcclellanjm @nickteman break down topical hemostatic agents, one of the most used and least taught tools in the OR. You’ll get a simple two-question model for picking the right product: can your patient make their own clot, and can a patch reach the bleeding? Through trauma, vascular, and cardiac cases, the team covers when these agents earn their keep and when two minutes of pressure (no peeking!) will do the job. Bottom line: hemostatic agents speed up hemostasis, but they’re a targeted adjunct to good surgical technique, not a substitute for it.
🎧 📺 behindtheknife.org/podcast/d…
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Global surgery is where purpose meets logistics: the skills matter, but so do supply chains, follow-up and training local teams. Mentorship that builds lasting capacity is worth far more than a single trip.
NEVER STOP LEARNING
Listen to a quick pod! Some say why, others say why not?!
Journal Review in Surgical Oncology: Gastric Cancer
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With the fabulous @vreelant @usarmydoc24 @lexyadams16 @joebrod5 @gistgalen
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"It's a tool to make doctors more effective and efficient doctors, and it relies on superintelligence at the core of it in order to do that sort of integrative task."
@NIHDirector_Jay discusses how AI tools like OpenEvidence can help doctors connect the latest medical research to patient symptoms and treatment options.
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"A growing share of knowledge access is shifting from recall to retrieval." Clinical judgment stays with the doctor.
From a Harvard-led JAMA study, co-authored with OpenEvidence researchers.
OpenEvidence, as a physician-facing LLM, is being used by more healthcare professionals month by month. Now, a study analyzes how almost a million US clinicians use it while submitting 271 million AI-enabled clinical queries!
"Early-career physicians (use ratio, 2.54) and those in oncology and hematology (2.00), internal medicine (1.88), and family medicine (1.80) submitted a higher-than-average share of queries; treatment and management accounted for 33.1% of physician queries and diagnosis for 13.9%."
I really liked their concluding remark:
"For much of modern medicine, clinicians have been expected to internalize a body of knowledge through training and maintain it through continuing education. Study findings suggest a growing share of knowledge access is shifting from recall to retrieval."
We cannot expect physicians to know everything, but we can expect them to know where to find the information they need.
The study: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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Reflecting on the responsibility and honor of being tasked with amplifying voices in this space! So proud of this work! Thanks to @BehindTheKnife for supporting Global Surgery! @MedUnivSC @MUSC_COM @MUSCSurgery
Our next global 🌏 surgery pod is out today!
Building a Career in Global Surgery - Purpose, Mentorship, and Impact ➡️ behindtheknife.org/podcast/b…
Great work from @MikeMMallahMD & special guests @MUSCGlobalSurg @DrBarnabasAlay
Our next global 🌏 surgery pod is out today!
Building a Career in Global Surgery - Purpose, Mentorship, and Impact ➡️ behindtheknife.org/podcast/b…
Great work from @MikeMMallahMD & special guests @MUSCGlobalSurg @DrBarnabasAlay
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