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Many congrats to all collaborators who contributed to the #MAGIC study Published BJS Key messages: 🔆 Data challenges the role of GA as the default anaesthetic modality 🔆 No signal of benefit for routine post-op antibiotics 🔆Packing recommended to reduce recurrence

Ten-year outcomes of a #RCT of endothermal ablation VS. conventional surgery for great saphenous varicose veins ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/bjs/zn… Both surgery and endothermal ablation are effective treatments for varicose veins at 10 years, with durable improvement in quality of life

🆕 Author response: Preoperative high dose of dexamethasone in emergency laparotomy: randomized clinical trial ➡️doi.org/10.58974/bjss/… 💬from Mirjana Cihoric on behalf of all authors #surgery #LeadingSurgicalEducation #rct BJS

Read Young BJS 'Acute threat to Life' series! 9⃣ Penetrating abdominal trauma doi.org/10.1093/bjs/zn… - Penetrating abdominal trauma management can be complex and requires concurrent resuscitation and urgent decision-making - The <C> ABCDE initial approach to management is

Is very high-dose dexamethasone necessary to achieve these beneficial outcomes? ➡️bjsacademy.com/author-respons… The recent article by Cihoric et al. makes a substantial contribution to better understanding of the effects of high-dose dexamethasone (1 mg/kg) in emergency laparotomy

Effects of limb lengths in gastric bypass surgery ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/bjs/zn… - Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery is one of the most commonly performed bariatric surgeries with good and sustainable long-term results - Suboptimal clinical response or recurrent weight gain

Check out 'The instrumentalist' series #Robotic surgery! Simulation in robotically assisted surgery and the surgical training landscape ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/bjs/zn… A new solution using immersive head-mounted devices (HMDs) has the potential to address the limitations of current

Excelente revisión acerca de la importancia de la longitud de las asas en el bypass gástrico en BJS Magnífico trabajo del grupo de Ralph Peterli 🇨🇭#SoMe4Surgery AEC-SECO aecirujanos SEIQ SECO - Sociedad Española de Cirugía de la Obesidad Jordi Tarascó, MD PhD Eider Talavera Urquijo Norberto Cassinello

Identification of A0 minimum ablative margins for colorectal liver metastases: multicentre, retrospective study using deformable CT registration and #AI-based autosegmentation ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/bjs/zn… The aim of this study was to validate the previously identified 5 mm minimum

Effect of tailoring biliopancreatic limb length based on total small bowel length VS. standard limb length in one anastomosis gastric bypass: 1-year outcomes of the TAILOR #RCT superiority trial ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/bjs/zn… Tailoring the BP limb based on TSBL does not demonstrate

Our editorial views to the just published NEOLUPANET trial in BJS: Neoadjuvant therapy with peptide receptor radionuclide therapy for pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours academic.oup.com/bjs/article/11… Julie Hallet BJS BJS Academy SoMe4HPB

...and here the link to the trial by Stefano Partelli et al: NEOPLUPANET BJS BJS Academy SoMe4HPB academic.oup.com/bjs/article/11…

and here the accompanying editorial 🆓👉 by Kjetil Søreide Niels Kok to discuss the implications and way forward for ablation #CRLM #livermetastasis #ArtificialIntelligence BJS BJS Academy SoMe4HPB academic.oup.com/bjs/article/11…

🏥Acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding ➡️bjsacademy.com/acute-lower-ga… From the 'Acute threat to life' Young BJS article series recently published in BJS: 💬Most not life-threatening. Use of Oakland score may be useful to guide urgency of investigation and treatment. -

Neoadjuvant 177Lu-DOTATATE for non-functioning pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours (NEOLUPANET): multicentre phase II study ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/bjs/zn… 🏥NEOLUPANET was a multicentre, single-arm, phase II trial, conducted between March 2020 and February 2023 at eight Italian

Read our Editorial by Kjetil Søreide and Niels Kok Curative-intent ablation margins (A0) for colorectal liver metastasis: more burning questions ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/bjs/zn… #SoMe4Surgery #MedTwitter #SurgEd #Surgery RCPSG Trainees' Committee aecirujanos SEIQ International Society of Surgery (ISS/SIC) #MedicalTechniques

🎉 Finally a “Neoadjuvant” therapy for non functioning pancreatic NET 🦓 🇮🇹 Multicenter phase 2 study with 177Lu-DOTATATE on p-NET at high risk for recurrence 👍 Acceptable complications / no postop death / no disease progression 🏅Landmark paper! 👉academic.oup.com/bjs/article/11…