Shout out to all janitorial and environmental service heroes!! This week @MGHsurgery residents have delivered nearly 50 individual thank you’s for their extra hard work keeping our hospital clean and safe for us and for our patients. 💙
Honored and privileged to serve as the Mortimer J. Buckley Visiting Professor at @MassGenBrigham. Many thanks to the Buckley family, Thor Sundt, and entire @Harvard faculty and staff for your graciousness. Special recognition to the superb residents in whom I see...
The @amjtransplant has launched a dedicated #Xenotransplantation series and we have the privilege to lead it! Our inaugural AJT XenoPulse synthesizes the first nine patients who received xenotransplants. Excited to shape this w/ @JoeMLadowski & @SandyFeng8 https://t.co/Kunxa4WFhR
Congratulations to our recent CT graduates Drs. Maggie Connolly, David Miranda, Jordan Secor and Nik Panda!! So many amazing accomplishments, with so many more to come. @returnofthemags@JordanSecor@NikhilPanda_MD
Absolutely badass graduating fellow @returnofthemags doing a very complex case on her due date!!!! I took her through her first lap chole more than a decade ago…So happy she is joining the staff at @MGBcardiacsurgery #womenareamazing@WomenInThoracic
Over 50% of patients under 60 in California are getting TAVR. This is absurd! Huge shoutout to @JoChikweMD and team for exposing the alarming truth: TAVR has a 250% higher risk of death in 5 years compared to SAVR.
https://t.co/BYQ4GbzOdW
On October 16, 1846, Mass General hosted the first successful public demonstration of ether as a surgical anesthetic. This groundbreaking event is commemorated each year as a significant milestone in our hospital’s history.
Standing room only for today’s @MGHSurgery Grand Rounds by Drs. Pierson, Madsen, Kawai, and @LVRiella discussing the first kidney xenotransplantation in a living human recipient
Dr. Jordan P. Bloom has been named the 2024 Supervising Physician of the Year by the Committee for Distinguished Physician Assistants. This award recognizes a supervising physician who supports, educates, and promotes PAs so they can practice to the full extent of their license.
check out our case of complete excision of mitral annular calcification and double valve replacement with aortomitral curtain reconstruction!
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View this narrated, high-res video of a complete excision of mitral annular calcification and double valve replacement with aortomitral curtain reconstruction below, and check out the #JTCVS Techniques article to enjoy the full 10-minute video: https://t.co/HYTKVgFK2y
Once again: a🧵about 🧵's
It's been about a year since I last posted these, but for the new folks, here is a collection of links to each of my 🧵 about surgical sutures.
9 of these are about suture types and the other 3 are miscellaneous suture-related topics.
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Cardiac surgeons Asishana Osho (@AsishanaOsho) and Ali Rabi (@S_Alireza_Rabi) are part of a team of medical researchers at MGH who are forging a new path aimed at making more and more hearts viable and available for transplantation. Read more: https://t.co/8215V9vhrj
Short 🧵regarding the scissors with black handles:
Those who read my original 🧵on the meaning of gold handled surgical instruments may recall I mentioned scissors with black handles (if not, see link at the end).
I've now seen one in the wild and got the necessary photos.