HPB Fellow at uOttawa| MIS/Advanced GI Fellow at Western University Alumni l USASK General Surgery Alumni l UofM Med | Avid runner, baker & traveler 🇨🇦
✨2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣Review:🔝10 papers shaping my practice & research.
1⃣ PRICE-2🇨🇦: RCT showing hypovolaemic phlebotomy in liver resection ⬇️ perioperative🩸transfusion risk (8 % vs 16 %)
Simple low-cost intervention to ⬆️ outcome in liver resection - new SOC?
https://t.co/JGT2lDSUFO
🚨Happy to share the PRICE-2 trial results in liver resection at higher risk bleeding 🚨
Hypovolemic phlebotomy vs usual care (n=446)
⬇️ 7.6 🆚 16.1% 🩸 RBC transfusion
✅ NNT 11
⬇️ blood loss
⬆️ surgical conditions
No increased major complications https://t.co/F1yylGLDk3
@erastourticketz I’ve never gotten to go, and can’t even get in the queue despite being waitlisted last summer. Would absolutely love to get the ticket!!
The 5-yr survival rate for #pancreaticcancer increased to 12% according to @AmericanCancer@NCICancerStats! For the first time since 2017, it's increased 2 years in a row. This promising trend points to continued progress in the fight against this disease. Let's keep going. 💜💪
Because most the country is snowed in for the next couple of days while the SAGES Office enjoys sunshine, we are happy to announce that the #SAGES2023 Abstract Notifications will most likely start sending tomorrow AM!
It takes us a couple of days to send all emails, be patient.