More EAST 2024 content in honor of #east2025 To operate or not to operate, that is the question❓ bit.ly/3PMfozb

Today's #FollowFriday is EAST President-elect, Dr. Mayur Patel (Mayur B. Patel) 📣📢 #east2025 Congratulations from TSACO! We wish you a smooth transition and a productive term!

Thanks to all (over 1k) who attended #EAST2025! It was an exceptional week of Advancing Science and Fostering Relationships!

It is February and we are reaching the Chief Resident Solstice…the time of year that surgical chief residents approach the absolute minimum number of f**** given. Time moves slower near the Chief Resident Solstice than at any other time in one’s life. (it does end, eventually)

A perspective on why we do this work: your heart must be in it 🫀 bit.ly/4iBcB8P Michael Rallo

Over the next few weeks for #TBT, we're revisiting the top 10 most downloaded papers of 2024! We start with #🔟: "Surgical and procedural antibiotic prophylaxis in the surgical ICU: an AAST Critical Care Committee clinical consensus document" bit.ly/4130vz5

Your Match Day reminder that square knots look the same at hospitals of every ranking, and matching *somewhere* is what matters. The grass is not always greener at your ‘top’ programs, and in the end, both your potential and the basic principles of surgery are still the same.

Congratulations to all the amazing general surgery residents who matched with us! We can't wait to see you this summer! #MatchDay #MatchDay2025

Could a blood test be used for early diagnosis of small bowel injury? 🩸 Yamaji et al report 2 cases in which elevated levels of syndecan-1 were observed in patients with small bowel injuries. Read more here: ➡️ bit.ly/4i1q8W9

Kicking off the 2025 Mattox/Vegas TCCACS Conference with some of the great “new blood” faculty Patrick Georgoff, MD Tanya Egodage, MD, FACS Purvi P. Patel MD, FACS and Dr “I don’t have Twitter” Dumas

Can performing heroic measures in the field save more lives than if we wait until patients arrive at the trauma center? This was debated at the 40th Annual Point/Counterpoint Acute Care Surgery Conference. Find out what the panelist thought: ➡️bit.ly/4iJyaU1

Did you know that research for middle ear infections is funded at a higher rate than hemorrhage from trauma? Drs. Holcomb & Lee discuss the history and current status of blood product transfusion research in a Point/Counterpoint session: #acspcp2025 tsaco.bmj.com/content/10/Sup…

I’m representing Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open (TSACO) in-person at the #acspcp2025 Point/Counterpoint conference. Amazing collaboration and partnership. See meeting papers TSACO has published here: tsaco.bmj.com/pages/american…

Direct link to Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open (TSACO) papers from past Point/Counterpoint conferences. #acspcp2025 See papers by: Mayur Narayan Nicholas Namias Mark Slidell Isam W. Nasr Samuel Lenworth Jacobs Sharon Stein's Little Sister (Deb Stein) Sharon Henry Scalea, Holcomb, Gurney and more. tsaco.bmj.com/pages/american…

Elliott R Haut, MD, PhD Megan Quintana The ACS Committee on Trauma Daniel Holena Michael Vella Angela Green PhD RN Jamie Coleman, MD FACS reillyp Kristen Chreiman Jeff Jopling Madhu Subramanian, MD See these papers about #Trauma video review related to the talk at #acspcp2025 tsaco.bmj.com/content/10/1/e… tsaco.bmj.com/content/10/1/e…

🚨 Calling all future TSACO social media interns 🚨 Application due date has been extended - now due July 1, 2025. Details below ⤵️

Come join the Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open (TSACO) social media team! Fantastic opportunity for someone interested in trauma/ACS research, publishing, and science communication

X…the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open (TSACO) social media interns. Their 1 year mission: to explore strange new Tweets. To seek out new memes and new abbreviations. To boldly go where no tweets have gone before.

Andrea Simioni Dor Yoeli Thomas Vogler, MD PhD Alison Halpern Mungo Jason Zakko, MD, MS Alexa Robbins, MD, MHA Lauren Evans Haley Desjardins Madhuri Nagaraj Congrats, Michael Dalton! #CUAnschutzGrad #CUGrads2025

Pro tip: There is a phenomenon on rounds when the attending doesn’t know what to do about the main problem and instead fixates on the peripheral aspects of the case (DVT prophylaxis, etc). Learn to recognize this and redirect to the main issue before you move on 🧐.