Highlight of the month! Sign up at bistc.redcap.bham.ac.uk/surveys/?s=RHM… to participate in this study

Proud to be part of this work on mesh versus non-mesh repair of emergency groin hernia repair. Although certainty of evidence is low, this is an important contribution. Newly published Cochrane: cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.10… Jacob Rosenberg Siv Fonnes

🔥🤖HOT OF THE PRESS🤖🔥 Shorter length of stay and fewer readmissions after robot-assisted ventral hernia repair compared to open approach link.springer.com/article/10.100… Danish Hernia Frederik Helgstrand Kristian K Jensen MD PhD DMSc European Hernia Society American Hernia Society Hernia Journal

Treatment of #ventralhernia European Hernia Society American Hernia Society AWR Europe Mette Willaume

Me, a surgeon who has surgically scrubbed his hands 4,000 times and washed his hands probably 15,000 times👏🏻🧼💦 My inbox:

Prolene sutures are often used to anchor prosthetic mesh during inguinal or ventral hernia repair. I can't say I fully understand this one (why not PDS?), as the mesh incorporates anyway, but perhaps part of the thought is that the mesh is often polypropylene anyway.

buff.ly/4201jDW Prevention of #IncisionalHernia with prophylactic onlay and sublay mesh reinforcement vs. primary suture only in midline laparotomies (PRIMA): long-term outcomes of a multicentre, double-blind, #RCT. #HerniaPrevention #HerniaSurgery #AWSurgery

keithsurgeon BJS European Hernia Society British Hernia Society Process is analogous to # healing in bones. At some point you have to put force through it for osteoblasts / clasts to allow remodelling. If you don't put weight through it the # never heals properly & is weak. Food for thought about how we advise on heavy lifting post op!

Congratulations to Nathan Bontekoning and Mads Marckmann, winners of this year's Free Paper and Poster Presentation! #AWRE2024🙌

Laparoscopic intraperitoneal onlay mesh procedures for ventral and incisional #hernia repair had its hype in the 2010s, but has the use of the procedure come to an end? ja.ma/47KHdyN Nadia A Henriksen Kristian K Jensen MD PhD DMSc Danish Hernia #GartnerHypeCycle

Our keynote speaker David Lourie was introduced by a surprise guest, the amazing Mette Willaume

Who else is coming? #EHS2024Prague European Hernia Society

🤓🤓🤓 So excited to see updated Danish Hernia database long term data (since 2007) of ventral hernias as presented by Nadia A Henriksen N=50K 15-yr hernia recurrence rates: Umbilical 10% Epigastric 14% Incisional 18% Parastomal 40% Risk factors: - tissue based repair without mesh

And after all

📣Think just in!📣 Swedish Registry of over 20K TEP repairs shows those surgeons performing less than 50 per year have significantly worse outcomes for their patients. As presented by Dr Maria MelkeMichel European Hernia Society #EHS2024Prague

bit.ly/4clf6JB Cost analysis of open versus robot-assisted #VHR – a retrospective cohort study #HerniaSurgery #RoboticSurgery #OpenAccess

Solid work Nadia A Henriksen and team.

Prospective nationwide analysis of long-term recurrence rates after elective ventral, incisional and parastomal hernia repairs ➡️doi.org/10.1093/bjsope… The risk of operation for recurrence after a primary ventral or incisional hernia repair is continuously rising, even after 15

🗓️Save the date - 28-29 August 2025 🔥🔥🔥#EFOA2025 🔥🔥🔥 The first symposium on Enteric Fistula and Open Abdomen will be held in Copenhagen next Summer. An amazing faculty is forming and registration is open with a special discount. GO REGISTER efoa2025.org/registration/

1. How big is your trocar site incision? Last week we established that a 5mm trocar has an outer diameter of 7.7mm. #surgery Ron Barbosa MD FACS Caroline Park MD, MPH Vahagn C. Nikolian, MD SAGES is in Tampa in 2026! TeachMeSurgery Surgical Pizza MISIRG Omar M Ghanem Emory Surgery Ivy N. Haskins, MD