🪡 November SurgEd Forum is here!✨ This month‘s question is: “What is your favourite surgical instrument in your specialty and why?” Share your experiences and insights with fellow surgeons! #SurgEd #MedicalEducation #Surgery

@Suture_UK Christopher Gee BBASS @Rungichungi Rhea Liang @otolaryngolofox Elliot Servais, MD, FACS Mark Bagnall PhD FRCS Ron Barbosa MD FACS David O'Regan 💚💙 Lahey. Obviously!

Love using Mcindoes and Gillies together. The fact that these two pioneers were related is why (in my head) I call them: "the cousins"

@Suture_UK Christopher Gee BBASS @Rungichungi Rhea Liang @otolaryngolofox Elliot Servais, MD, FACS Martyn Stott Mark Bagnall PhD FRCS Ron Barbosa MD FACS David O'Regan 💚💙 Now, I do like a good penny backer! So useful in a myriad of circumstances!

@Suture_UK Christopher Gee BBASS @Rungichungi Rhea Liang @otolaryngolofox Elliot Servais, MD, FACS Martyn Stott Mark Bagnall PhD FRCS Ron Barbosa MD FACS David O'Regan 💚💙 Nothing beats a Foster-Gillies needle holder. Two instruments (needle holder and scissors) in one!

@Suture_UK Christopher Gee BBASS @Rungichungi Rhea Liang @otolaryngolofox Martyn Stott Mark Bagnall PhD FRCS Ron Barbosa MD FACS David O'Regan 💚💙 For Thoracic, I'll go with the Finochietto and the Matson-Alexander. Countless uses for the Matson during open thoracotomy, especially for chest wall resection. #thoracic #surgery Tom Varghese Jr. MD, MS, MBA, FACS, MAMSE 🇺🇸 Brian Mitzman Brendon Stiles Shanda Blackmon, MD, MPH Olugbenga Okusanya MD

@Suture_UK Christopher Gee @Rungichungi Rhea Liang @otolaryngolofox Elliot Servais, MD, FACS Martyn Stott Mark Bagnall PhD FRCS Ron Barbosa MD FACS David O'Regan 💚💙 McIndoe Scissors and Debakey forceps

Elliot Servais, MD, FACS @Suture_UK Christopher Gee BBASS @Rungichungi Rhea Liang @otolaryngolofox Martyn Stott Mark Bagnall PhD FRCS Ron Barbosa MD FACS David O'Regan 💚💙 Tom Varghese Jr. MD, MS, MBA, FACS, MAMSE 🇺🇸 Brian Mitzman Brendon Stiles Olugbenga Okusanya MD Yes- my fav for open thoracotomy as well. The Matson-Alexander is the best tool for harvesting an intercostal muscle flap, which is the most underappreciated flap we have. ICM flap can butress, rebuild tracheal wall, close esophageal leaks, and interpose to separate structures.

@Suture_UK Christopher Gee BBASS @Rungichungi Rhea Liang @otolaryngolofox Elliot Servais, MD, FACS Mark Bagnall PhD FRCS Ron Barbosa MD FACS David O'Regan 💚💙 Justification? Careful dissection, slinging vessels and bile ducts, can even use to control small vessels eg from the IVC to the liver whilst tying the other side and thus minimising inefficient moves and instrument changes.

Brendon Stiles Elliot Servais, MD, FACS @Suture_UK Christopher Gee BBASS @Rungichungi Rhea Liang @otolaryngolofox Martyn Stott Mark Bagnall PhD FRCS Ron Barbosa MD FACS David O'Regan 💚💙 Tom Varghese Jr. MD, MS, MBA, FACS, MAMSE 🇺🇸 Shanda Blackmon, MD, MPH Olugbenga Okusanya MD nasser altorki Weill Cornell Medicine Cardiothoracic Surgery A little bit more from Pearson’s AATS address & impact Belsey made on surgeons in Toronto, Chicago, and other places:

@Suture_UK Christopher Gee BBASS @Rungichungi Rhea Liang @otolaryngolofox Elliot Servais, MD, FACS Martyn Stott Mark Bagnall PhD FRCS Ron Barbosa MD FACS David O'Regan 💚💙 Has to be the Alexis retractor

@Suture_UK Christopher Gee BBASS @Rungichungi Rhea Liang @otolaryngolofox Elliot Servais, MD, FACS Martyn Stott Mark Bagnall PhD FRCS Ron Barbosa MD FACS David O'Regan 💚💙 Lahey for me. Great instrument to dissect, sling etc Also really love Supercut McIndoe scissors

Christian Macutkiewicz 🏳️‍🌈 (he/him) @Suture_UK Christopher Gee BBASS @Rungichungi Rhea Liang @otolaryngolofox Martyn Stott Mark Bagnall PhD FRCS Ron Barbosa MD FACS David O'Regan 💚💙 Lots of votes for the Lahey forceps I’m all for it over here Lahey Hospital Lahey Surgery

@Suture_UK Christopher Gee BBASS @Rungichungi Rhea Liang @otolaryngolofox Elliot Servais, MD, FACS Martyn Stott Mark Bagnall PhD FRCS David O'Regan 💚💙 One’s non-dominant hand is the finest surgical instrument ever devised. 🤔😉

@Suture_UK Christopher Gee BBASS @Rungichungi Rhea Liang @otolaryngolofox Elliot Servais, MD, FACS Martyn Stott Mark Bagnall PhD FRCS Ron Barbosa MD FACS David O'Regan 💚💙 Have always liked a laparoscopic peanut. Simple, but there are few more complex instruments that give the same combination of dissection, haemostasis and tactile feedback.

@Suture_UK Christopher Gee BBASS @Rungichungi Rhea Liang @otolaryngolofox Elliot Servais, MD, FACS Martyn Stott Mark Bagnall PhD FRCS Ron Barbosa MD FACS David O'Regan 💚💙 Cooley “my” scissors. Only instrument that I asked to be added to the thoracic tray when I started. Great for PA dissections #surged #medicaleducation

@Suture_UK Christopher Gee BBASS @Rungichungi @otolaryngolofox Elliot Servais, MD, FACS Martyn Stott Mark Bagnall PhD FRCS Ron Barbosa MD FACS David O'Regan 💚💙 Late to this party because I'm over on Le Ciel Bleu more now, but my fave for open surgery is the insulated, teflon coated diathermy blade tip. Used properly it can cut, coag, dissect, and be used as a teaching pointer- and comes in endless extensions.

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