Brian Villa

Fourth year medical student by day - sourdough baker by night. U. South Florida Morsani College of Medicine. POCUS fan. Drone amateur. Posts are my own opinion.

[EAST @EAST_TRAUMA]

This month’s EAST Monthly Literature Review on Trauma is brought to you by EAST Member Brian Villa, BS and Justin Hatchimonji, MD, MBE, MSCE. Thank you to our sponsor @HaemoneticsCorp! Read the #EASTLitReview here and share your feedback: https://t.co/2zVi6BH1o2

@topknife @jhatchmd @DrBYork @susanercronn @JeffChoi01 @GomerFoamER @SourodipMukhar2 @elkrebs7 @MedBrainBrian

[Eric Pillado, MD MBA MS @drpillado]

Happy Latino Physician Day!

~4-5% of ALL surgeons are Latino.

This is not enough. My drive to become a surgeon was because no one looked like my family or understood how to approach our care.

As our patient population continues to become more diverse, we must reflect it.

[Brian Villa @MedBrainBrian]

Grateful to EAST and Dr. Hatchimonji for the opportunity to discuss recent work in appendix and gallbladder pathologies!

Even 🍞 and 🧈 general surgery can be optimized for safer decisions. #EvidenceBased

[EAST @EAST_TRAUMA]

This month’s EAST Monthly Literature Review on Emergency General Surgery is brought to you by Sumeet V. Jain, MD, MBA and Justin Hatchimonji, MD, Brian Villa and Andrew Manhan, DO. Thank you to our sponsor @HaemoneticsCorp! Read the #EASTLitReview here and share your feedback: https://t.co/wdMjFuiWpH

[Brian Villa @MedBrainBrian]

@Doc_JinKim @USFCOLORECTAL @USFHealth The smile says it all - when you love what you do you don’t work a day in your life

[Brian Villa @MedBrainBrian]

@KaiserSadiq @USFsurgery @FloridaACS @Doc_JinKim Incredible work!

Fun to see this project taking flight after being exposed to many single site CRS procedures during my third year clerkship.

Did my med student duties and helped dock several gelports on my CRS rotation.

Congrats to all involved in this project!

[Brian Villa @MedBrainBrian]

@adah_nnaa You’re the backbone of the medical field! Thank you for your dedicated passion and keep up the great work

[Brian Villa @MedBrainBrian]

@edmondboxmd @RepRutherfordFL @AmCollSurgeons @RASACS Congratulations and kudos on the strong work 💪🏼 👏🏼

Way to represent Florida and our home institution at such an important event

[Brian Villa @MedBrainBrian]

🔊🌴The inaugural Tampa Bay POCUS Symposium 2025 was a great success! 🔊🌴

Honored to be invited by @USFEM to present my TEE project done in collaboration with @ResusTEEproject

Extra pic from ‘Sun n Fun’ air show later in the afternoon with highschool buddies

Ideal weekend!

[Brian Villa @MedBrainBrian]

@USFHealthMed A selfless mentor to so many of us medical students and truly the rock of our preclinical years.

Congratulations to Dr. Slone - well deserved for his hard work and sacrifices for us 🎉

[Brian Villa @MedBrainBrian]

I love the night shift

[Brian Villa @MedBrainBrian]

@Hason_Khan_ @SurgeryUTHSC @uthsc Congrats brother, the journey continues 💪🏼

[Brian Villa @MedBrainBrian]

@ross_prager We are excited to share very soon. A wonderful compliment from one of the kings of #FOAMed and Twitter think tank extraordinaire

Striving to stand on the shoulders of giants!

[Brian Villa @MedBrainBrian]

A team of great minds here at @USFHealthMed @USFResearch is looking into exactly this!

If only there was a way to quickly look through the chest to see where the mid left ventricle is……..

We think we have an idea 💡🧐

Thanks to @FTeranMD for highlighting how we do CPR

[Ross Prager @ross_prager]

CPR saves lives. We all know the tenants to high quality CPR yet its 2025 and 50% of the CPR is done in the wrong location ☠️

Quality CPR per AHA:
1) Push at 100-120bpm
2) Do CPR on the sternum
3) Push deep
4) Allow for complete recoil.

It turns out, that in real life hearts sit in variable positions in the chest (some more central, some lower, some more axillary). This means that 50% of the time CPR is done too high (based on TEE literature) which compresses the LVOT or Aorta and NOT the ventricles.

CPR done of the LVOT / Aorta have lower rates of ROSC, lower ETCO2, lower diastolic blood pressure!

The @ResusTEEproject registry led by @FTeranMD is studying whether wrong CPR location results in worse neurologically in tact survival...

The gap to solving this? There isn't an easy solution without using #resusTEE to position CPR over the right location.

Retweet this so a young medical innovator finds this and wants to create a device that uses AI/ML to create a safe and simple probe (or device) that can be used to improve CPR position.

Improving CPR quality by 50% could save tens of thousands of lives per year!!

[Brian Villa @MedBrainBrian]

@USFsurgery Congrats to all who matched and welcome to @USFHealthMed !!

Looking forward to being on teams with you all as a MS4 next year

[USF General Surgery @USFsurgery]

so SO excited to announce the newest class of USF surgeons. we can’t wait to welcome you to sunny tampa!! congratulations everyone!! ☀️🔪🌴🥼

[USF Health Medicine @USFHealthMed]

It was indeed a magical day for the #Classof2025! Congratulations to our #futuredoctors and good luck in your residency years! The #medschool journey for the class ends with commencement May 8 at the @StrazCenter. Full story: https://t.co/zOcR4hIzrm

[Brian Villa @MedBrainBrian]

! This !

Feeling over the moon ecstatic for my @USFHealthMed upperclassman friends and colleagues across the country that just received the #Match2025 news

So much fun to seeing their hard work paying off.

#Tminus1year #Match2026

[Her. @Ukiyoukiyotu]

Me watching all the #Match2025 posts

[Taron Torosian, MD @TaronTorosian]

Unmatched➡️Matched!!!!! I’m going to be a surgeon 😭 I’m so grateful for this opportunity to pursue my dream. So many people to thank. So proud of my friends who also matched. Filled with immense gratitude and loads of cortisol 😬 #match2025 #surgery

[Denise Vera Nemeth @dv_nemeth]

Is this real life!?!?

I AM GOING TO BE A SURGEON!🔪

#Match2025

[Alexandra Kats, MD @_AlexandraKats]

Here’s to the 15-year-old girl who never imagined her dreams finally coming true!! #Match2025🫶🩺