The SAGES Acute & Military committees have a series of lectures on high-impact events for surgeons and their allies-Stalking, Abuse and Assaults, Active Shooter events, Civilian and Military triage, along with STOP THE BLEED® training in the exhibit hall #SAGES2024 Andrew Schlussel

Honored to present SAGES Is In Cleveland 2024! on the multimodal, multidisciplinary comprehensive approach to necrotizing pancreatitis with a great panel lead by Amy Liepert & Kevin El-Hayek, MD, MBA, FACS - rationale for “STEP-UP” non-op, endoscopic, IR, MIS, EGS-VARD and open approaches given. #SAGES2024

Tonight (Jan 22) we have another of our Chapter virtual lecture series at 8-9pm PT: “Advocacy in Surgery: How politics influence surgeons in California” with Jay Doucet More info: info.facs.org/index.php/emai…

Fantastic #EAST2024 session on now #EGS robotics with all-star faculty led by Matthew Martin, MD, FACS, McRIB and a “crawl, walk, run” plan for EGS #Robotics training: disaster gallbladders, groin hernias, ventral hernias and EGS bowel resection. Joseph Sakran

Happy Holidays from all of us - please stay safe!

Stop the Bleed training tonight in Chula Vista by UCSD Trauma Burn and Chula Vista Fire Department #CERT team - we trained 66 participants on how to #StoptheBleed stopthebleed.org

Today in @NYTimes: Our own Alexander Tenorio, MD (PGY-4) shares his research on treating migrant patients following border wall falls, which often cause life-altering and costly injuries.

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Article in today’s The New York Times describes the continuing and increasing toll of severe injuries at the US-Mexico border wall, featuring Alexander Tenorio, MD from UC San Diego Neurological Surgery and work by UCSD Trauma Burn nytimes.com/2023/11/14/us/…

Interesting session at #Intuitive360 on the role of robotics in EGS - Emergency General Surgery - it can improves access to good surgery 24/7 and reduces inequities according to Joseph Sakran

Exited to share our #BurnSurgery QI project UC San Diego Health aiming to standardize dressing care leading to decreased errors/confusion and increased efficiency! Thank you American College of Surgeons #ACSCC23 for the opportunity!

A powerful American College of Surgeons panel session on the crisis for Surgeon Safety ends #ACSCC23 - led by Amy Liepert - with Dr Tim Nelson, Dr Nathan Powell, Carter Lebares, Joe Dalu, PI and myself... a🧵

Join our online community forum today and learn about the TAP study starting in San Diego, starting at 5pm today: uab-mc.zoom.us/j/89083911159 TAP is a trial for severely injured trauma patients requiring multiple blood transfusions.

Great pre-AAST Military Trauma session - features an inspiring Military Resident COT trauma paper competition - NASA astronaut keynote leadership speaker CAPT Jim Wetherbee - tough case presentations with experts in austere and humanitarian surgery.

Congratulations to Dr. Constantini on an important project on pathobiology of lung inflammatory response following injury Todd Costantini UCSD Trauma Burn UC San Diego Surgery #AAST2023

2nd year fellow Lisa Kurth represents UCSD Trauma Burn at #AAST2023 talking about the safety of weight-based DVT prophylaxis in TBI patients

I’m proud to announce the newest members of the UCSD Trauma Burn team. Welcome to our newly matched Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery Fellows! Dayle Colpitts

Congratulations all!

Bleeding out is the #1 cause of preventable death after injury.  Please join our virtual community forum about the TAP Trial in San Diego. You will have a chance to speak with those leading this trial, ask questions via Zoom 6/28/23 at 5 PM PT
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Take a moment today to urge your California Senator to increase access to Prostate Cancer screening! #AB632 @zerocancer #endprostatecancer #caleg

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Our UCSD trauma team is proud to support gun violence prevention and #WearOrange AAST Associate Members @traumadoctors