🧵/RCTs are the gold standard in⬇️ biases in📝. But often times, obtaining funding & enrolling based on honest power calculations is impossible, esp in Surgery.
That means most📝are cohort studies, & I thought it’d be worth reviewing what one can do to best adjust for biases.
Great talk by Dr. David Wilde, resident and upcoming HNS fellowship applicant sharing @MDAndersonNews#thyroidcancer tracheal resection data, the largest single institution cohort to date. He reported complication rates, locoregional control, and overall survival data! #AHNS2023
That's a wrap on our Skull Base Rodeo!
This past week, our residents participated in a training course that included workshops, hands-on labs and lateral and anterior skull base lectures.
Swipe for a round-up of our #rodeo pics.
Short 🧵(for people going into critical care) regarding when a tracheostomy tube is the same 'size' as its endotracheal tube counterpart, and when it is not.
Warning: minutiae follows here...if you're not into critical care, get out now.
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Went to see a patient & the RN told me: “Heads up. Our patient is she/her.”
Patient at one point asked me a question, I replied “Yes ma’am.” She hadn’t quite looked at me until I said that. After she was fully engaged.
Here’s how long it took me to adjust: zero seconds.
I recognize at least half these pitfalls from doing some of my first microsutures recently in a reinnervation--very helpful video for all specialties with microsuturing
Want to learn the basics of microsuturing for bypass surgery?
I highly recommend Dr. Acland’s videos
He reviews “causes of frustration, entanglement, and despair” and tricks to avoid them
Perfect for #Neurosurgery residents
https://t.co/FtO45iOiMm
@youngneuros@cvsection
BREAKING: White House issues new policy that will require, by 2026, all federally-funded research results to be freely available to public without delay, ending longstanding ability of journals to paywall results for up to 1 year. Coverage coming on @ScienceInsider.
ever wonder why a single button battery stuck in the esophagus can be so dangerous? ☠️
here's a button battery cooking a hot dog (source: @MDPoisonCtr @nephrotox)
@williamtreed Cook catheter is a nice move here, like you said, so you can ventilate in a bad situation. Also, for our colleagues who may not as be familiar with intubating, it's also important to know if you can intubate from above as a last-ditch rescue.
HOUSTON HAS THE BEST FOOD SCENE IN THE COUNTRY I SAW AN ASTRONAUT SHOPPING AT HEB HAVE YOU BEEN TO THE ROTHKO CHAPEL THE ASTROS WON BY LIKE FIFTY RUNS TODAY THERE ARE OTTERS LIVING IN THE BAYOUS YOU CAN GET A HAIRCUT AND A HAMBURGER IN A TUNNEL AND LOOK IT'S FINALLY RAINING
Big health care news: the FDA has finalized a rule allowing hearing aids to be sold over the counter, potentially saving millions of people with mild-to-moderate hearing loss thousands of dollars. Look for hearing aids in your local drug store as early as mid-October.
Many years illustrating for surgeons.
Many years doing an anatomy PhD.
Many years a surgical resident.
Surgeon mentor: “Get both sides of that brain working together now Raf.”
Will do.
#anatomy#illustrator#artist#surgery
Patient-Reported #Symptom Burden as a Predictor of Emergency Department Use and Unplanned Hospitalizations in Patients with Head and Neck #Cancer: A Longitudinal Population-Based Study.
https://t.co/A5Tsw115E4
@ASCO_pubs@JCO_ASCO@ASCO#HSRonc#PallOnc#PROs