PERFECT trial published The Lancet comparing <8h vs <24h scheduling of appendectomy for (presumed) uncomplicated appendectomy is discussed in Anton Helman by Rohit Mohindra & Shelley McLeod It includes some criticism which I will address👇 in a 🧵 emergencymedicinecases.com/appendicitis-d…

Finnish Surgical Week - Strong performance by our research group Top science among all surgical disciplines - Laura Koskenvuo with MOBILE2 trial GI Surgery awards: 1st prize Karoliina Jalava with PERFECT trial 2nd prize Panu Räty with clinical decision scoring for SBO

All 3 papers (#openaccess) now out in the The BMJ on the **Evaluation of clinical prediction models** part 1: tinyurl.com/3h4zfvfw part 2: tinyurl.com/ynytrpmx part 3: tinyurl.com/2cfc9uj3 #stats #MachineLearning #predictiveanalytics

From an organic farm somewhere in Sweden 🇸🇪 the Pancreas2000 course is back For the love of the pancreas ❤️

All good things come to an end! Superb NordicHPB2024 meeting in Bergen 🇳🇴! Fantastic presentations from Akseli Bonsdorff (updated DISPAIR fistula risk score), Tiia Ojala (preop fistula risk score), and Sini Takala (national outcomes of gallbladder cancer). CU next year in Helsinki!

Prospective multicenter study to develop and validate two risk scores to improve diagnostics and treatment of adhesive small bowel obstruction BJS STRISK: strangulation risk NOFA: non-op treatment failure risk Calculator tinyurl.com/strisk academic.oup.com/bjs/article/11…

Predicting risk for pancreatic fistula after left pancreatectomy: 2 risk scores were assessed in international cohort of 2284 patients from 🇫🇮🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇷🇳🇴🇨🇦🇩🇰 DISPAIR and D-FRS performed poorly 👉 We combined and validated new DISPAIR-FRS score with better performance Links 👇

Link to article BJS (open access): academic.oup.com/bjs/article/11… Link to calculator: tinyurl.com/the-dispair-frs

Relationship between resection rate and survival in pancreatic cancer *at population-level* by Elizabeth Lockie&al BJS Open 👉The more you resect the better survival for the whole population 👉Efforts to increase the resection rate Commentary by Marco Del Chiaro&al Links👇

🔵 Pancreas2000 is the young talent group of the EPC-Europ Pancr Club and is aimed at shaping the nextgen of pancreas experts 🙏 I feel very privileged to coordinate this program, our future is in good hands! 💙

From the DISPAIR consortium group presented by Akseli Bonsdorff at E-AHPBA 2025 Dublin. Extremely high morbidity heterogeneity within grade B pancreatic fistula (from ab to invasive treatment). Should we update the postop pancreatic fistula classification? Here’s a proposal (A-B-C)

Another 💎 from DISPAIR consortium SURGERY Journal: Does neoadjuvant therapy reduce complications after left pancreatectomy? 9 high-volume centers, propensity score matched Pancreatic fistula: neoadjuvant 20% vs 24%, p=0.7 No diff in other complications. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…