It's been a great day for our surgical teams in our Sir Ken Dodd Knowledge & Education Centre as 22 junior doctors, registrars & surgical consultants took part in a WetLab Thoracic Study Day.
Thanks to Ethicon & the LHCH team for facilitating such a fascinating day of learning.
@minaya_bravo discussing the benefits of creating COVID-19 free surgical pathways
The @CovidSurg Lecture Series 'Safely Restarting Elective Surgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic’
Join us LIVE now at https://t.co/xztcQbVwLH
#surgery#globalsurgery#covidsurg#covid19
@gianlucasali@thoracic@SCTSUK@biniamkidaneMD @duggiewest @ekslim In UK patients often wait 4 weeks for lung ca surgery. An increased wait due to COVID could be fatal. When’normal times’ again, we need to get this down so we are prepared for the abnormal
Watch out for @LHCHFT and the outstanding Mr Julius Asante-Siaw, Consultant Thoracic Surgeon and team in this week's BBC Hospital episode - Thursday, 9pm, BBC2 with
@Label1tv @LivHospitals @AintreeMTC
Matt Hancock: Continue funding Life saving lung volume reduction therapy for COPD patients in the NHS - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/OROmFhRyKH via @UKChange
This #WorldCOPDDay we’re raising awareness of lung volume reduction (LVR).
About 1-2% of people with COPD could be suitable for it.
1.2m people have a COPD diagnosis and 2m may be undiagnosed that’s 32,000-64,000 who could benefit.
Find out more: https://t.co/mmwAYfRD04
@duggiewest @RCP_NLCA @NICEComms In the modern error of immunotherapy and targeted therapies do we really know how best to treat stage III disease? More trials which include surgery are needed