Matt Rickard

Colorectal Surgeon. Sydney

[Matt Rickard @mjfxrsurg]

@DCRjournal @SWexner @me4_so @ACPGBI @drtracyhull @ASCRS_1 With a Parks retractor in (just opened gently) 100 iu directly into the internal anal sphincter where it is exposed/visible in the centre of the actual fissure.

[DCRjournal @DCRjournal]

#DCRJournal latest Didactic Video is OUT!

Watch Splenic Flexure Mobilization: Lesser sac via transverse mesocolon technique via our YouTube channel: https://t.co/46X97bq1I3

@JohnRTMonsonMD @jendavidsmd @ScottRSteeleMD @Swexner @me4_so @drtracyhull @ASCRS_1 @FicheraAlessand

[Matt Rickard @mjfxrsurg]

@nsenussiMD @DrBloodandGuts @AustinChiangMD @SanchezLunaMD @ibdtweets @RobertBechara @BilalMohammadMD @stevenbollipo @Samir_Grover Must be a colonic conduit

[Matt Rickard @mjfxrsurg]

National Pleasure Audit launched to investigate what brings Australians joy - ABC News https://t.co/HbC3tUpxDx

[Matt Rickard @mjfxrsurg]

https://t.co/j2JFVLc7Z5

[Latest in tech 💡 @latestintechx]

You can change the direction of this train just by thinking about it.

[Matt Rickard @mjfxrsurg]

@DKarikios @drprunellab @M_Jefford You are certainly not like a bunch of crows!

[Matt Rickard @mjfxrsurg]

@drprunellab @M_Jefford Is there a recognised name for a group of oncologists? Suggestions

[Dan Andrews @DanielAndrewsMP]

I don't want to give this person's disgraceful, bigoted views any oxygen.

But when others insist on rewarding them with this country's highest honour – I think it's worth saying again:

Grand Slam wins don't give you some right to spew hatred and create division.

Nothing does.

[Matt Rickard @mjfxrsurg]

@ScottRSteeleMD @colo_research @BehindTheKnife @SurgJournal @LillianKao1 @bolshinskyv @VNikolian @vanessapho @rogier_crolla @R_Perez_MD @DrDavidLarson @MrJTJenkins Do the easy bits first, take your time, music, if you have a good assistant take turns in operating, knife, scissors, hydro-dissection

[Matt Rickard @mjfxrsurg]

Transanal total mesorectal excision: the new kid on the block or a false dawn? https://t.co/1f109wWm0u https%3A%2F%https://t.co/axlEQTjmZO%2Farticles%2F389123156

[Matt Rickard @mjfxrsurg]

Transanal total mesorectal excision: 10 years on – time to stop and re‐think https://t.co/5ZwFTd4qJa https%3A%2F%https://t.co/axlEQTjmZO%2Farticles%2F389123134

[Matt Rickard @mjfxrsurg]

@bolshinskyv @ColorectalDis @SheriefShawkiMD @ScottRSteeleMD @ClevelandClinic Please post a link to the article, Vlad

[Matt Rickard @mjfxrsurg]

@AndreasMKaiser @tarik_sammour Happy to be a "luddite" if it means avoiding an operation with a high leak rate, often an unnecessarily low join, increased LR (sometimes multi-focal), probable poorer function, urethral injuries, CO2 embolism. Sacrificing patients to a long learning curve is wrong. FOMO at play.

[Matt Rickard @mjfxrsurg]

@raymondoliphant Teddy is there to give second opinions and all those travel books to remind of the days of jet travel!

[Steven D Wexner MD, PhD @SWexner]

https://t.co/IqEqmVlsYm “The competing risks findings in this study showed no significant association between perioperative transfusion and recurrence or colorectal cancer‐specific death.” @ColorectalDis

[Matt Rickard @mjfxrsurg]

@HeywoodNick @SWexner @ACPGBI @susanmoug @dalevim @AbigailVallance @fascrs_updates “sphincter”.....not “spinster”. Autocorrect strikes again

[Matt Rickard @mjfxrsurg]

@HeywoodNick @SWexner @ACPGBI @susanmoug @dalevim @AbigailVallance @fascrs_updates This question should be nuanced. A “rule of thumb” that I go by is (assuming no pre-existing spinster defect) the amount that can be laid open:
Male, posterior 1/2
𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐞, anterior 1/3
Female, posterior 1/3
Female, anterior - nil
This is based on zero evidence.

[Matt Rickard @mjfxrsurg]

@DKarikios Congrats, Deme. Fantastic

[Matt Rickard @mjfxrsurg]

@AntoniodeLacy @fascrs_updates @SAGES_Updates @aecirujanos “You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”. Really!!! Are we surgeons carefully treating patients or movie stars driven by FOMO? taTME...high leak rates, poor function, unnecessarily low joins, ureteric injuries, CO2 embolism.