Clinical Challenges in Hernia Surgery: Decision Making for Abdominal Wall Emergencies
Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast
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The Importance of Retro Muscular Pairs in the Emergency Setting
A lot of people are enthusiastic about abdominal wall reconstruction techniques, specifically retro muscular based repairs with mesh in that very valuable space. The most important thing is to not burn any bridges in the emergency setting and come back to fight another day. There's actually a great study from the medanish registry that looked at elective versus emergent ventral hernia repair. Some of the worst outcomes were with emergent retro muscular pairs.
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