Insights and stories from surgical practice
A practical guide to local anesthesia for minor procedures, covering agent selection, safe dosing, infiltration technique, and patient monitoring for beginners.
A practical guide to designing morbidity and mortality conferences that trainees trust: deliberate case selection, frank ground rules, a...
Stapled and hand-sewn anastomoses each have distinct strengths in gastrointestinal surgery. This comparison weighs operative time, leak risk,...
A practical communication checklist for surgeons: how to explain risks, benefits, alternatives and recovery in language patients actually understand, and how to confirm they did.
A structured approach to a complex postoperative wound infection, from recognizing subtle deterioration and achieving source control to...
A practical guide to designing a retrospective surgical chart review protocol, minimizing data collection, justifying a consent waiver, and...
Summer reshapes emergency general surgery: heat-related physiology, holiday-delayed presentations, seasonal trauma mechanisms and rota strain. A practical review for teams planning the warmer months.
A practical guide for surgical trainees to reading pathology reports: specimen details, margins, grade, stage, nodes, and synoptic language.
A practical, illustrated guide to the five suturing decisions that shape every scar — tension, needle angle, knot security, tissue handling and...
A practical comparison of laparoscopic and open appendectomy for early-career surgeons, covering technique, recovery, complications, and case selection.
