In this episode, we host the Joint Commission who tell us about their efforts to improve healthcare disparities and healthcare provider diversity. We first briefly discuss structural racism before pivoting to how COVID has revealed how deep the roots of inequity travel. Finally we discuss the ways that Joint Commission are tackling the problem. Dr. Ana McKee, Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer of the Joint Commission joins our discussion, along with return guest Dr. Fabian Johnston from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. McKee mentions the Bernard J Tyson National Award for Excellent in the Pursuit of Healthcare Equity in this episode! Applications open on May 17. Please see go to THIS LINK to learn more about the process!

In this episode, we follow up with our friends at COVIDSurg (https://globalsurg.org/covidsurg/).  While the pandemic has been raging they have been hard at work, studying the interface between COVID and all things surgery.  They’ve produced some amazing work, most of which impacts the day to day lives of surgeons around the country.   How long should you wait to operate on a patient who has had COVID?  And what do you tell your patients about this?  What about vaccines?  Should your next patient undergoing elective surgery be vaccinated before you take them to the operating room?  Find out!

Clinical Challenges in Surgery: ARDS It's the middle of the night...the ventilator is alarming, the patient is hypoxic, and the nurse wants to know if you would like to paralyze the patient.  What do you do?!  Join Drs. Matt Martin, John McClellan, and Patrick Georgoff as they discuss the management of a real patient with severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.  From paralytics and proning to steroids and ECMO, this episode has got you covered. 

Note: We couldn't upload the video version to your podcast player because the file was just way too big! That's because the operative video is so high quality! Please go our YouTube channel to watch it! Or click this link: https://youtu.be/xx7JMIe2d_o In the first of our Surgical Technique video series, Mass Gen Transplant surgeons take us step by step through a kidney transplant! This is Part 2 of the series. We are joined by Dr. Leigh Anne Dageforde, Dr. Anushi Shah, and Dr. Ashley Aaron. Just in time for National Donate Life Month!

Note: We couldn't upload the video version to your podcast player because the file was just way too big! That's because the operative video is so high quality! Please go our YouTube channel to watch it! Or click this link: https://youtu.be/xx7JMIe2d_o In the first of our Surgical Technique video series, Mass Gen Transplant surgeons take us step by step through a kidney transplant! This is Part 1 of the series. We are joined by Dr. Leigh Anne Dageforde, Dr. Anushi Shah, and Dr. Ashley Aaron. Just in time for National Donate Life Month!

Dr. Anton Fries, Chief of Plastic Surgery at UT San Antonio, joins the podcast to give us all a primer on all we need to know about flap-based reconstruction. Don’t forget to visit GreenChef.com and use promo code 90Surgery to get $90 off your first organic, delivered meals. It’s a great way to support your body and the podcast!

Check out the articles discussed in today's podcast here ATTRACT Trial  https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1615066 Dual Antiplatelets Following Lower Extremity Bypass https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32777321/

Discussing a REAL TRAUMA CASE that happened just a few months ago, Patrick Georgoff, John McClellan, and Hasan Alam come together to detail their thought process in managing a patient with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.

We brought Dr. Mary Klingensmith and Dr. Amit Joshi on the show, executive leaders on the Surgical Council on Resident Education. Listen to them discuss the history of SCORE, how it has improved over time, and how these two leaders in surgical education anticipate residency training changing over the next decade!

Diverticulitis has got to be one of the most classic problems encountered by surgeons and medical students in their surgery rotation. In this inaugural "Clinical Challenges" episode, colorectal surgeons Scott Steele and Joshua Bleier join acute care and trauma surgeon Patrick Georgoff to discuss the important clinical pearls, starting from when you meet the patient, all the way to when you're taking care of them after their surgery.