The interface between the ganglionic bowel and the a ganglion bowel can be very irregular and can project for 234 centimeters longer along one part of the circumference than the other, so that even if you just look at a longitudinal strip. You could see gangon cells at the proximal margin, but on the opposite side of that margin there may be no gangon cells, and so you may be dealing with a, a low transition zone pull through in that situation.
in our experience of these drains actually don't drain the leak. Um, I saw this when I was training, and I see it now with my colleagues who still put drains in. Uh, we get routine contrast studies, and there's sometimes a leak that's contained, and it's not drained by the drain. So to me, it's, it's causing pain, it may increase your leak rate, and it doesn't even work most. Of the time. So that's why I don't leave drains.
The reason that we switched to this, um, is that there are, if it's clearly if airway aspiration, you go to the operating room. It's the ones you don't know. And what we found is the ones you don't know, it's a suspicious story. They were coughing after eating. Um, more often than not, it's reactive airway and it's not a foreign body.
What I use, Joyce, is, um, usually if they're bad enough that you're wondering what their bladder pressures are, they're often intubated. Um, if they're that sick, and so I look at their peak airway pressures to see, so as I'm reducing them, I watch their peak airway pressures, and that's how I decide when to stop reducing.
the studies, uh, currently, I think, uh, you know, what this, uh, is hoping to highlight is the ability to use non-operative management of appendicitis in certain cases, but, um, uh, the studies that we have, uh, show that, uh, having the presence of an appendiculli actually has about a 50% failure rate.
the reason these protocols at least in my opinion are important is because there's not variation in care generally speaking they've been tried and true and work all right but the nurses know what it is and you know you don't need to call a doctor every time you want to increase by 10 cc's or whatever
Approach and component separation for suture closure and underlay mesh...
Statementspk_0 uses escharotic painting (escharization) followed by epithelialization for giant omphalocelesOpen
QuotationI use escharization. I, I paint them and then treat them, I let them epithelialize.Open
Statementspk_0 tried silver-impregnated Aquacel which stuck to the sac, became incorporated, and could not be removed - described as a disasterOpen
QuotationI laid the Aqua cell on the silver Aqua cell and it stuck to the, uh, sack and it became incorporated. And could not get it off.Open
StatementComponent separation in small babies is not easy, especially if the omphalocele has been on a silo for a long period and tissues are scarred togetherOpen
StatementComponent separation requires dissection to the mid-axillary line to adequately mobilize tissueOpen
Statementspk_0 now uses six-ply Surgisis which has 22 tension lines, allowing tension on the patch while bringing fascia togetherOpen
Statementspk_0 had one massive omphalocele case with muscle only at lateral edge requiring combination of lateral component separation, Gore-Tex attachment, and serial stretching over 3 sessions (like Witzman patch) to achieve muscle-to-muscle closureOpen
StatementBiologic dressings are not meant to be bridged - they turn into liquid as temporary material, not muscle, unless permanentOpen
Statementspk_0 observed one pediatric case where biologic patch appeared to turn into muscle or scarOpen
QuotationI use escharization. I, I paint them and then treat them, I let them epithelialize.Open
QuotationI use escharization. I, I paint them and then treat them, I let them epithelialize.Open
StatementSilver Aquacel stuck to the omphalocele sac and became incorporated, failing to fall off as expected once it hardened underneath.Open
StatementSilver Aquacel stuck to the omphalocele sac and became incorporated, failing to fall off as expected once it hardened underneath.Open
QuotationI laid the Aqua cell on the silver Aqua cell and it stuck to the, uh, sack and it became incorporated. And could not get it off.Open
QuotationI laid the Aqua cell on the silver Aqua cell and it stuck to the, uh, sack and it became incorporated. And could not get it off.Open
Quotationhe's one of these minds that you meet and, and he thinks so creatively, so he's so innovative, and every time I watch his videos, Um, I just am fascinated.Open
Quotationhe's one of these minds that you meet and, and he thinks so creatively, so he's so innovative, and every time I watch his videos, Um, I just am fascinated.Open
StatementComponent separation dissection to the mid-axillary line is necessary to adequately mobilize tissue and achieve closure.Open
StatementComponent separation dissection to the mid-axillary line is necessary to adequately mobilize tissue and achieve closure.Open
StatementSix-ply Surgisis with 22 tension lines works better, allowing tension on the patch while bringing the fascia together.Open
StatementSix-ply Surgisis with 22 tension lines works better, allowing tension on the patch while bringing the fascia together.Open
StatementWith escharization and delayed closure, children go home, play, are active regular kids, epithelialize the whole omphalocele, and can be fixed when older with component separation techniques.Open
StatementWith escharization and delayed closure, children go home, play, are active regular kids, epithelialize the whole omphalocele, and can be fixed when older with component separation techniques.Open
Quotationwe forget where we, we were, where we've come from sometimes, you know, we look at those great old pictures and, you know, of skin covered in phallos, which still didn't have great techniques to fix them, which we do have now. You can just get out of the way.Open
Quotationwe forget where we, we were, where we've come from sometimes, you know, we look at those great old pictures and, you know, of skin covered in phallos, which still didn't have great techniques to fix them, which we do have now. You can just get out of the way.Open
QuotationThey go home, they're playing, they're active regular kids. They they epithelialize the whole thing and then fix it when they're older with some of these maybe component separation type techniques.Open
QuotationThey go home, they're playing, they're active regular kids. They they epithelialize the whole thing and then fix it when they're older with some of these maybe component separation type techniques.Open
StatementLivers in small-defect omphaloceles can have a mushroom or dumbbell shape, making reduction very difficult.Open
StatementLivers in small-defect omphaloceles can have a mushroom or dumbbell shape, making reduction very difficult.Open
StatementFor gastroschisis, bedside reduction can be attempted under sedation (rectal acetaminophen and small-dose fentanyl) without intubation, with success in approximately 80% of cases even when all bowel is eviscerated.Open
StatementSpring-loaded Bianchi silos may enlarge the fascial defect because the compressive forces are directed outward at the ring level.Open
StatementIf apple-peel bowel is ischemic (not necrotic) and not twisted, waiting until the next day to reassess viability is reasonable before committing to resection.Open
Abdominal Wall Defects with Dr. Jacob Langer
StatementDr. Baird published a paper in JPS showing that patients with flap closure did better in every way than those with sutured fascial closure, including lower rates of umbilical hernia repairOpen
StatementSpring-loaded silos (Bentech) create outward pressure forces as you push down, making the defect larger over timeOpen
StatementSpring-loaded silos (Bentech) create outward pressure forces as you push down, making the defect larger over timeOpen
StatementCristobal Abello in Colombia uses Duoderm over the sac to compress and reduce omphaloceles over timeOpen
StatementPhil Gazzetta described the 'flip flop' technique (modification of component separation) for omphalocele closure: lateral incision of anterior sheath only, folding over while attached to posterior sheath, creating single posterior layerOpen
StatementPhil Gazzetta described the 'flip flop' technique (modification of component separation) for omphalocele closure: lateral incision of anterior sheath only, folding over while attached to posterior sheath, creating single posterior layerOpen
Compiled Sandler Rapid Fire Sessions: Update Course 2015
QuotationHow do you know for sure there wasn't?Open
QuotationHow do you know for sure there wasn't?Open
StatementFor gastroschisis with inflamed bowel, bedside reduction without intubation is feasible using rectal Tylenol and minimal fentanylOpen
StatementFor gastroschisis with inflamed bowel, bedside reduction without intubation is feasible using rectal Tylenol and minimal fentanylOpen
StatementSpring-loaded Bianchi silos may enlarge the fascial defect because the outward forces from the compressed ring push laterallyOpen
StatementSpring-loaded Bianchi silos may enlarge the fascial defect because the outward forces from the compressed ring push laterallyOpen
Gastroschisis: Advanced Practice Providers
StatementTodd Ponsky has done only non-sutured gastroschisis repair for the last 6 years and has never had a ventral hernia. He reports 10-20% umbilical hernia rate, most resolving by age 3-5 years, with perfect cosmetic results.Open
StatementTodd Ponsky has done only non-sutured gastroschisis repair for the last 6 years and has never had a ventral hernia. He reports 10-20% umbilical hernia rate, most resolving by age 3-5 years, with perfect cosmetic results.Open
QuotationI have only done this repair, uh, for the last 6 years. I have not done a sutured repair in 6 years.Open
QuotationI have only done this repair, uh, for the last 6 years. I have not done a sutured repair in 6 years.Open
QuotationWe did a pediatric surgery event just like this, but for the pediatric surgeons, and we pulled the audience, and I think it was about 75% of the surgeons that did the non-sutured repair.Open
StatementIn a pediatric surgery event poll, about 75% of surgeons reported doing non-sutured (Tegaderm) gastroschisis repair.Open
QuotationWe did a pediatric surgery event just like this, but for the pediatric surgeons, and we pulled the audience, and I think it was about 75% of the surgeons that did the non-sutured repair.Open
StatementIn a pediatric surgery event poll, about 75% of surgeons reported doing non-sutured (Tegaderm) gastroschisis repair.Open
StatementFor non-sutured closure, Todd Ponsky places a silo on all patients, reduces at bedside, and if everything reduces he closes it by tying the umbilical cord with suture, laying it in a circle over the hole, applying gauze and Tegaderm, waiting 4 days, then changing dressing every 4 days until sealed (usually 2 weeks).Open
StatementFor non-sutured closure, Todd Ponsky places a silo on all patients, reduces at bedside, and if everything reduces he closes it by tying the umbilical cord with suture, laying it in a circle over the hole, applying gauze and Tegaderm, waiting 4 days, then changing dressing every 4 days until sealed (usually 2 weeks).Open
StatementTodd Ponsky does not use bladder pressures for gastroschisis monitoring, finding them not terribly accurate in this patient size. He uses peak airway pressures as primary assessment during reduction, watching them to decide when to stop reducing, and looks at overall baby appearance and urine output.Open
StatementTodd Ponsky does not use bladder pressures for gastroschisis monitoring, finding them not terribly accurate in this patient size. He uses peak airway pressures as primary assessment during reduction, watching them to decide when to stop reducing, and looks at overall baby appearance and urine output.Open
QuotationWe do not use bladder pressures. Uh, I don't find them to be terribly accurate in this size, uh, patient.Open
QuotationWe do not use bladder pressures. Uh, I don't find them to be terribly accurate in this size, uh, patient.Open
QuotationWhat I use, Joyce, is, um, usually if they're bad enough that you're wondering what their bladder pressures are, they're often intubated. Um, if they're that sick, and so I look at their peak airway pressures to see, so as I'm reducing them, I watch their peak airway pressures, and that's how I decide when to stop reducing.Open
QuotationWhat I use, Joyce, is, um, usually if they're bad enough that you're wondering what their bladder pressures are, they're often intubated. Um, if they're that sick, and so I look at their peak airway pressures to see, so as I'm reducing them, I watch their peak airway pressures, and that's how I decide when to stop reducing.Open
QuotationThere's never a downside to just releasing the silo and letting things back out again, right.Open
QuotationThere's never a downside to just releasing the silo and letting things back out again, right.Open
StatementFor gastroschisis monitoring, the volume of NG output matters less than the color: even high-volume clear/spitty output may allow feeding, but any bilious output (regardless of volume) means the patient is not ready to feed.Open
StatementFor gastroschisis monitoring, the volume of NG output matters less than the color: even high-volume clear/spitty output may allow feeding, but any bilious output (regardless of volume) means the patient is not ready to feed.Open
QuotationThe exact opposite is true that you can have a ton of spit coming out, but it doesn't mean that they're not ready to be fed, um, so for some reason in the little kids the volume doesn't seem to be as critical, um, as the color.Open
QuotationThe exact opposite is true that you can have a ton of spit coming out, but it doesn't mean that they're not ready to be fed, um, so for some reason in the little kids the volume doesn't seem to be as critical, um, as the color.Open
7th Annual Pediatric Surgery Update Course 2019 - FULL SHOW
QuotationJust two days ago, I had a baby that I was operating on. And because you taught me this, the hemoglobin, they were going to transfuse up to a hematocrit of thoracin. No, I learned from the PDC. We don't have to do that anymore. Transfuse clinically.Open
QuotationI don't know if any surgeon would look at that and go 41 percent failure rate is a success.Open
QuotationI use this as something in my back pocket now. So I don't do it, but I have it there. So if someone's not a good surgical candidate, for whatever reason, I don't want it. Then I know I have it as an option, but I don't do it.Open
Abdominal Wall Defects with Dr. Jacob Langer
StatementThe sutureless plastic closure technique was described by Anthony Sandler and doesn't require suturing the umbilical cordOpen
StatementA study by Dr. Baird published in JPS showed that patients with flap closure did better in every way than those with sutured fascial closure, including lower rates of umbilical hernia repairOpen
StatementSpring-loaded silos apply pressure outward as you push down, making the defect larger over timeOpen
StatementSpring-loaded silos apply pressure outward as you push down, making the defect larger over timeOpen
StatementThe 'flip flop' technique (modification of component separation) involves incising laterally through anterior sheath only, folding it over while attached to posterior sheath, creating a single posterior sheath closureOpen
StatementThe 'flip flop' technique (modification of component separation) involves incising laterally through anterior sheath only, folding it over while attached to posterior sheath, creating a single posterior sheath closureOpen
Umbilical Cord Defects with Dr. Kenneth Azarow
StatementA prospective trial at Dr. Ponsky's institution found triamcinolone (Kenalog) cream superior to silver nitrate for umbilical granulomas, with such a drastic difference the study was stopped early.Open
StatementAnalysis of PHIS (Pediatric Health Information System) data showed the mean age for umbilical hernia repair across U.S. children's hospitals is 4 years.Open
Journal of Pediatric Surgery Article Review: January 2022 APSA Issue
StatementAt Akron Children's Hospital under Bob Perry, the bonus structure required the entire group to reach a certain RVU threshold for everyone to receive 50% of their bonus, eliminating competition for cases.Open
QuotationIn Akron, Bob Perry, the way that he structured the bonus was that the entire group has to get a certain RVU, not a single person.Open
QuotationThat way, there was no competition like trying to steal cases and stuff, because the whole group rose as a group.Open
Omphalocele & Gastroschisis
StatementFor large omphalocele defects, besides intestine, a good amount of the liver is on the outside in the majority of cases.Open
StatementFetal growth is tracked monthly in these cases because there is concern for significant growth restriction.Open
StatementFor gastroschisis, only ultrasound is normally obtained to confirm the diagnosis without additional imaging.Open
StatementFor omphalocele, besides ultrasound, MRI and echocardiogram are routinely obtained because these patients may have other associated anomalies.Open
StatementGastroschisis affects approximately one in every 2200 live births.Open
StatementAfter sequential reduction with plastic clips in omphalocele, the patient is taken to the operating room for delayed primary closure of the fascia and skin.Open
Update Course 2021: UPDATE COURSE 2020: REVIEW OF LAST YEAR'S IMPORTANT T OPICS
QuotationWe are, we all live in our own little country and we do our own little thing. And it's only when we talk to each other from all over that we do true learning.Open
QuotationThis is about rapid fire. We're not doing in-depth stuff here. This is rapid fire, important topics that we feel and that a lot, that's why we bring new faculty in every year, that the faculty feel are kind of the real important points that we need to be highlighting all over the world that came up over the last year or so.Open
QuotationI promise you, I'm making this promise every year, something will glitch. Okay? I've been saying this for nine years. Even a few years ago, the whole power went out in the city and we had to drive to my living room. Something will glitch. Bear with us.Open
QuotationThis only, as you know, this is free. This is free because, and we've been trying to keep this free as long as we can. We try to believe that knowledge should be free as long as we can do it, as best we can do it.Open
Statement26% of respondents use intraoperative ICG to visualize the biliary tree, 23% use it in select patients, and 51% do not use it.Open
StatementGetting phenol into the operating room for sclerotherapy is not always easy due to institutional and pharmacy restrictions.Open
StatementThe adoption of sutureless closure for abdominal wall defects represents a major practice change over nine years, with 90% now using it always or selectively compared to much lower rates previously.Open
StatementApproximately 50% of respondents always use sutureless abdominal closure for large abdominal wall defects, 40% use it in select patients, and only 11% do not use it.Open
StatementImplementing ERAS requires team buy-in, particularly from anesthesiologists, because of practice changes like allowing oral intake two hours preoperatively.Open
StatementMost institutions are either taking steps to address social determinants of health or working on it; few report no action.Open
Update Course 2022 - UPDATES IN GASTROSCHISIS FEEDING PROTOCOLS - Jason Fraser, Beth Rymeski, and Steven Lee
Quotationthe reason these protocols at least in my opinion are important is because there's not variation in care generally speaking they've been tried and true and work all right but the nurses know what it is and you know you don't need to call a doctor every time you want to increase by 10 cc's or whateverOpen
QuotationI'm not gonna give a lecture. Usually in these things, we all give a lecture about the state of the art of our specialty. I'm just gonna tell you a little story.Open
StatementFlexible fiber-optic endoscopy as currently known began around 1958 when Hersowitz at the University of Michigan developed a method using glass fibers to transmit images.Open
StatementIn the 1960s, flexible endoscopy was used only for visualization of the GI tract without therapeutic interventions.Open
StatementIn the early 1970s, Shina, a surgeon in New York, developed the ability to remove polyps from the GI tract endoscopically.Open
StatementEndoscopic polypectomy was significant because it enabled removal of polyps before they became cancer.Open
QuotationThe chief of gastroenterology said, we're not going to train any surgeons to do endoscopy. We won't train you because you're a surgeon.Open
StatementThe speaker trained in endoscopy in Canton, Ohio with Jim Canyon, performing approximately 500 cases over nearly 5 months.Open
QuotationHe said, You will not touch a scope. Because you're a surgeonOpen
QuotationNext day I got a call from my mother-in-law, she said, Go buy a scope. We got you covered. It's your scope.Open
QuotationBy the time I finished my residency, I had put the gastroenterologist out of business at UniversityOpen
StatementThe speaker and pediatric surgeon Michael Gauderer developed a technique to place feeding tubes endoscopically through the abdominal wall for children with brain damage requiring long-term feeding.Open
StatementThe PEG tube procedure was probably the beginning of minimally invasive surgery.Open
StatementThe PEG tube was developed in 1979, almost 40 years before this presentation.Open
StatementMajor medical device companies including Olympus, Ross Laboratories, and Eaton Laboratory initially declined to commercialize the PEG tube.Open
StatementIn A-frame patients (narrow costal margin), port placement must be adjusted lower because ribs prevent standard subcostal port positioning.Open
Todd's statements about Acute Pancreatitis12 statements
QuotationWhile most of these audio chapters are recordings between myself and experts in the field, we wanted to try something new this time.Open
QuotationAmylase and lipase, lipase more sensitive than amylase?Open
Welcome and Introductions: Pancreatic Disease
Quotationwe have a panel of experts who know more than the rest of the world, it seems, uh, from what I've been readingOpen
StatementCincinnati Children's has been leading the world in pediatric surgical educationOpen
StatementThe event will be recorded and available after 48 hoursOpen
StatementA new video portal will allow users to search by keyword and watch specific segments rather than entire eventsOpen
StatementThe Center of Telehealth at Cincinnati Children's is used daily by experts to help physicians and patients around the worldOpen
StatementCincinnati Children's Pancreas Care Center is staffed by a large multidisciplinary group rather than one or two specialistsOpen
Acute and Acute Recurrent Pancreatitis: Pancreatic Disease
StatementAspiration of pancreatic necrosis to rule out infection should be reserved for cases of true clinical deterioration; in the absence of significant clinical worsening, avoid needle aspiration due to risk of introducing infection into sterile necrosis.Open
QuotationYou can very much be opening a can of worms if you're starting to stick things into the pancreas. Um, I can tell you that I, I think we've had, um, the need for one in the last 10 years, one necrosectomy for, for, you know, necro truly. Awful necrotizing pancreatitis.Open
QuotationIn the absence of true significant clinical deterioration, we, we really avoid, avoid sticking needles in the pancreas, sticking drains.Open
QuotationYou stick a needle into a collection that may be sterile, and then you have the risk of introducing infection, and then once you have infected necrosis. Things can can really deteriorate.Open
Todd's statements about Acute Recurrent Pancreatitis14 statements
Quotationwe have a panel of experts who know more than the rest of the world, it seems, uh, from what I've been readingOpen
StatementCincinnati Children's has been leading the world in pediatric surgical educationOpen
StatementThe event will be recorded and available after 48 hoursOpen
StatementA new video portal will allow users to search by keyword and watch specific segments rather than entire eventsOpen
StatementThe Center of Telehealth at Cincinnati Children's is used daily by experts to help physicians and patients around the worldOpen
StatementCincinnati Children's Pancreas Care Center is staffed by a large multidisciplinary group rather than one or two specialistsOpen
Acute and Acute Recurrent Pancreatitis: Pancreatic Disease
StatementAspiration of pancreatic necrosis to rule out infection should be reserved for cases of true clinical deterioration; in the absence of significant clinical worsening, avoid needle aspiration due to risk of introducing infection into sterile necrosis.Open
StatementAspiration of pancreatic necrosis to rule out infection should be reserved for cases of true clinical deterioration; in the absence of significant clinical worsening, avoid needle aspiration due to risk of introducing infection into sterile necrosis.Open
QuotationYou can very much be opening a can of worms if you're starting to stick things into the pancreas. Um, I can tell you that I, I think we've had, um, the need for one in the last 10 years, one necrosectomy for, for, you know, necro truly. Awful necrotizing pancreatitis.Open
QuotationYou can very much be opening a can of worms if you're starting to stick things into the pancreas. Um, I can tell you that I, I think we've had, um, the need for one in the last 10 years, one necrosectomy for, for, you know, necro truly. Awful necrotizing pancreatitis.Open
QuotationIn the absence of true significant clinical deterioration, we, we really avoid, avoid sticking needles in the pancreas, sticking drains.Open
QuotationIn the absence of true significant clinical deterioration, we, we really avoid, avoid sticking needles in the pancreas, sticking drains.Open
QuotationYou stick a needle into a collection that may be sterile, and then you have the risk of introducing infection, and then once you have infected necrosis. Things can can really deteriorate.Open
QuotationYou stick a needle into a collection that may be sterile, and then you have the risk of introducing infection, and then once you have infected necrosis. Things can can really deteriorate.Open
Todd's statements about Aerodigestive / ENT60 statements
Aerodigestive & Esophageal Surgery - The Unsalvageable Esophagus & Cases
QuotationSome people believe that you have to use a scope to measure the true gap. I may not be at the end.Open
QuotationSome people believe that you have to use a scope to measure the true gap. I may not be at the end.Open
StatementIn long-gap atresia, some surgeons use a Hagar dilator to measure the gap, but this may not reach the true end of the distal pouch. A flexible scope is more reliable for accurate gap measurement.Open
StatementIn long-gap atresia, some surgeons use a Hagar dilator to measure the gap, but this may not reach the true end of the distal pouch. A flexible scope is more reliable for accurate gap measurement.Open
QuotationThe only problem is the pigs keep dying.Open
QuotationThe only problem is the pigs keep dying.Open
StatementIn experimental porcine models of endoscopic Foker (using olive beads and wire traction), pressure necrosis at the anastomotic site is the suspected cause of death.Open
StatementIn experimental porcine models of endoscopic Foker (using olive beads and wire traction), pressure necrosis at the anastomotic site is the suspected cause of death.Open
StatementIntraluminal magnetic anastomosis is being developed as a minimally invasive approach to long-gap atresia, with the goal of reducing pressure necrosis compared to bead-based traction.Open
StatementIntraluminal magnetic anastomosis is being developed as a minimally invasive approach to long-gap atresia, with the goal of reducing pressure necrosis compared to bead-based traction.Open
QuotationThe whole big controversial thing is, do, are we trying too hard to save the esophagus?Open
QuotationThe whole big controversial thing is, do, are we trying too hard to save the esophagus?Open
QuotationStents don't work in, in scarred, uh, form strictures that are not fresh.Open
QuotationStents don't work in, in scarred, uh, form strictures that are not fresh.Open
StatementPlacing endoscopes from above and below during thoracoscopic stricture resection allows identification of the stricture by transillumination ('go to the light').Open
StatementPlacing endoscopes from above and below during thoracoscopic stricture resection allows identification of the stricture by transillumination ('go to the light').Open
StatementMagnetic compression anastomosis (magnamosis) has been used successfully for gastrojejunostomy but is unproven in the esophagus. The main limitations are the distance magnets can attract across and the lack of mucosal lining in the resulting anastomosis.Open
StatementMagnetic compression anastomosis (magnamosis) has been used successfully for gastrojejunostomy but is unproven in the esophagus. The main limitations are the distance magnets can attract across and the lack of mucosal lining in the resulting anastomosis.Open
StatementSerial bougie dilation (e.g., Maloney or Savary dilators) is less effective than balloon dilation for esophageal strictures. Balloon dilation applies radial force and can crack scar tissue without requiring needle knife incision.Open
StatementSerial bougie dilation (e.g., Maloney or Savary dilators) is less effective than balloon dilation for esophageal strictures. Balloon dilation applies radial force and can crack scar tissue without requiring needle knife incision.Open
QuotationI always tease our gastroenterologists that it's impossible to remove the endoscope without bringing out tissue with it.Open
QuotationI always tease our gastroenterologists that it's impossible to remove the endoscope without bringing out tissue with it.Open
StatementMobilizing the gastroesophageal junction to achieve length for primary esophageal anastomosis effectively creates a hiatal hernia and predisposes to reflux.Open
StatementMobilizing the gastroesophageal junction to achieve length for primary esophageal anastomosis effectively creates a hiatal hernia and predisposes to reflux.Open
QuotationClearly I had ischemia because it was 100% a technical issue, whether it was ischemia.Open
QuotationClearly I had ischemia because it was 100% a technical issue, whether it was ischemia.Open
StatementFor a spit fistula to avoid recurrent TEF, the distal esophageal stump must be fully mobilized down to the diaphragm and separated from the trachea, not just divided and dropped.Open
StatementFor a spit fistula to avoid recurrent TEF, the distal esophageal stump must be fully mobilized down to the diaphragm and separated from the trachea, not just divided and dropped.Open
QuotationIt's been a real pleasure being here today and it's been an honor how much I've learned in one day.Open
QuotationIt's been a real pleasure being here today and it's been an honor how much I've learned in one day.Open
QuotationAbsolutely amazing webinar, some amazing cases with excellent skills that you all brought today. I'm happy that you all are there for us when these cases get beyond the norm.Open
Aerodigestive & Esophageal Surgery - Difficult Tracheal Esophageal Fistula
StatementTrichloroacetic acid (TCA) can be used to demucosalize TEF tracts, but control is less precise than with bugbee cautery; TCA is applied on a pledget and can cause unintended burns if it contacts tissue during insertion.Open
StatementAnal fistula plugs (biologic, cone-shaped, made of Surgisis) can theoretically be used to occlude distal airway fistulas; they are wrapped with barbed suture and inserted into the tract to promote collagen matrix formation and scarring.Open
TEF Presentations (Extended): Aerodigestive & Esophageal Surgery
QuotationThis instrument I learned from actually a previous Globalcast and now I use it all the time.Open
QuotationThis instrument I learned from actually a previous Globalcast and now I use it all the time.Open
StatementThe bugbee cautery is useful and underutilized among general surgeons for treating recurrent tracheoesophageal fistulas.Open
QuotationThe bugbee is so useful and underutilized among us as general surgeons.Open
StatementThe bugbee cautery is useful and underutilized among general surgeons for treating recurrent tracheoesophageal fistulas.Open
QuotationThe bugbee is so useful and underutilized among us as general surgeons.Open
QuotationWe may underappreciate tracheomalacia or malaysia.Open
QuotationWe may underappreciate tracheomalacia or malaysia.Open
StatementGeneral surgeons may underappreciate tracheomalacia or laryngomalacia, making collaboration with ENT colleagues valuable for comprehensive airway assessment.Open
StatementGeneral surgeons may underappreciate tracheomalacia or laryngomalacia, making collaboration with ENT colleagues valuable for comprehensive airway assessment.Open
StatementTrichloroacetic acid (TCA) can be used for TEF demucosalization, but it is difficult to control precisely and leaves white tissue everywhere, whereas the bugbee provides more precise control.Open
StatementTrichloroacetic acid (TCA) can be used for TEF demucosalization, but it is difficult to control precisely and leaves white tissue everywhere, whereas the bugbee provides more precise control.Open
QuotationI have to tell you what scares me is when I'm done, it's white everywhere because I mean, the whole, it's hard to control it and be precise.Open
QuotationI have to tell you what scares me is when I'm done, it's white everywhere because I mean, the whole, it's hard to control it and be precise.Open
QuotationWhen I switched to the bug bee, I have herby bug bee bug beat, um, it's, uh, it absolutely is much more precise.Open
QuotationWhen I switched to the bug bee, I have herby bug bee bug beat, um, it's, uh, it absolutely is much more precise.Open
QuotationI'm always afraid because I can't see down that tube, and I wonder not just word in the esophagus, I wonder if I'm really destroying that fistula so much that I'm gonna perforateOpen
QuotationI'm always afraid because I can't see down that tube, and I wonder not just word in the esophagus, I wonder if I'm really destroying that fistula so much that I'm gonna perforateOpen
StatementDead button batteries still have about 2 volts and continue to cause damage.Open
QuotationWhen they're dead, they're still not dead. They're still going. They got about 2 voltsOpen
StatementButton batteries can be distinguished from coins on AP X-ray by a visible rim, eliminating the need for a lateral view.Open
StatementFor TEF repair, all that matters is achieving raw-on-raw tissue contact for healing.Open
StatementFor TEF repair, all that matters is achieving raw-on-raw tissue contact for healing.Open
StatementThoracoscopic diaphragmatic hernia repairs may have a higher recurrence rate than open repairs, possibly because they do not cause enough raw-on-raw tissue contact.Open
StatementThoracoscopic diaphragmatic hernia repairs may have a higher recurrence rate than open repairs, possibly because they do not cause enough raw-on-raw tissue contact.Open
StatementAnal fistula plugs made of biologic material (surgesis) can be used for TEF repair by wrapping them with barbed VOC suture and inserting them into the fistula tract to promote scarring and collagen matrix formation.Open
StatementAnal fistula plugs made of biologic material (surgesis) can be used for TEF repair by wrapping them with barbed VOC suture and inserting them into the fistula tract to promote scarring and collagen matrix formation.Open
Todd's statements about Anorectal Malformation43 statements
QuotationI have never had a patient referred to me with a prenatal diagnosis of any rectum malformations, cloica ever.Open
Prenatal Imaging and Counseling: Cloaca and Complex ARMs 2015
QuotationI have never had a patient referred to me with a prenatal diagnosis of any rectal malformations, cloica ever.Open
Posterior Sagittal Anorectaplasty in a Female: Pediatric Colorectal...
StatementTotal body prep from nipples to toes is standard for these patients, allowing flexibility to flip between supine and prone positionsOpen
Colorectal Quiz: Episode 49 – Collaborating for Kids: Colorectal & Pelvic Solutions (with a Little Help from AI)
QuotationMark, you're always not only good at anal rectum malformations, but you have been interested in All the tech and the media from the very beginning.Open
QuotationWhat M and I are working on is how we can mass produce content to equilibrate knowledge around the world, and we know that the only way to do that is to use cutting edge technology, automation tools and AI.Open
StatementNotebook LM is a free offering from Google that can create realistic-sounding podcasts between two AI voices from uploaded documents.Open
QuotationI would love to hear your thoughts, Mark, on your first experience with Notebook LM.Open
QuotationNo one has been able to do it as well as Notebook LM.Open
StatementThe AI-generated podcast voices are not customizable; users are limited to the same male and female voices.Open
QuotationThere's actually an incredible video where they uploaded a document telling these two podcast hosts that they were AI and how they reacted. They freaked out.Open
QuotationDo I think this is the future of podcasting? I don't.Open
StatementNotebook LM's beta version allows users to join the AI conversation interactively.Open
QuotationYou could click join, and it goes, hey, what's up? And you could say, hey, I heard what you just said about the colostomy. I'm not sure I agree, and then it will talk with you.Open
QuotationThe AI revolution has happened, and each month, it's blowing up and replacing jobs.Open
StatementHospitals should have teams that continuously bring new AI tools to clinicians every week.Open
StatementEm Gootee triangulates multiple AI platforms to combine the strengths of different tools (intelligence, audio, video).Open
QuotationYou have to have human oversight to make sure they're correct.Open
StatementHuman oversight is necessary to ensure AI-generated medical content is correct.Open
Colorectal Quiz: Episode 49 – Collaborating for Kids: Colorectal & Pelvic Care (with Help from AI)
QuotationWhat M and I are working on is how we can mass produce content to equilibrate knowledge around the world, and we know that the only way to do that is to use cutting edge technology, automation tools and AI.Open
QuotationThe future will be that you will just tell AI, make me a 10 minute podcast on this so I can listen on the way to work, and you can actually do that now.Open
StatementNotebook LM is a free Google offering that can upload any document and create a realistic-sounding podcast between two peopleOpen
StatementNotebook LM has perfected human-sounding conversation better than any other available toolsOpen
QuotationWe have been trying to replicate this with different tools. No one has been able to do it as well as Notebook LM.Open
StatementThe limitation of Notebook LM is that it uses the same two voices (one man and one woman) and is not customizableOpen
QuotationThere's actually an incredible video where they uploaded a document telling these two podcast hosts that they were AI and how they reacted. They freaked out.Open
QuotationDo I think this is the future of podcasting? I don't. I think the voices are great, but it's not customizable enough.Open
StatementNotebook LM beta version allows users to join the conversation and interact with the AI hosts in real-timeOpen
QuotationThe AI revolution has happened, and each month it's blowing up and replacing jobs.Open
StatementAI can now create functional apps from descriptions alone, with code generated instantly, threatening developer jobsOpen
QuotationYou have to be looking at AI and using it in your workflow. If you're not, you'll get behind.Open
StatementMedical teams should triangulate multiple AI platforms, using the intelligence of one with the audio of another and video of another to create the best productOpen
QuotationShe doesn't rely on one AI platform. She will bring 3 or 4 together and use the intelligence of this one with the audio of this one and the video of this one to create the best product.Open
StatementHuman oversight with medical writers is necessary to ensure AI-generated medical content is correctOpen
QuotationYou have to have human oversight to make sure they're correct. We have medical writers that make sure that everything we use is correct.Open
Colorectal Quiz: Episode 49 - Collaborating for Kids: Colorectal & Pelvic Solutions (with a Little Help from AI)
Quotationwhat em and i are working on is how we can mass produce content to equilibrate knowledge around the world and we know that the only way to do that is to use cutting edge technology automation tools and aiOpen
StatementNotebookLM is a free offering from Google that can upload any content and create a realistic-sounding podcast between two people.Open
Quotationdo i think this is the future of podcasting i don't i think the voices are great but it's not customizable enough you're stuck with what it decidedOpen
Quotationthe key thing is to be like you're doing and everyone else you have to be looking at ai and using it in your workflow if you're not you'll get behindOpen
Quotationthe ai revolution has happened and each month it's blowing up and replacing jobsOpen
StatementA review article that took two weeks to produce five years ago can now be created in minutes using NotebookLM with the same 30 source articles.Open
StatementNotebookLM can identify gaps in knowledge across multiple research articles and recognize when new articles fill those gaps.Open
Colorectal Quiz: Episode 2
QuotationYou all both looked at this image and said, you can tell, obviously, that this is too low, too posterior. Without a stimulator in the office, what do you look for to immediately tell that the analplasty was done too low?Open
Quotationwhat does the evidence tell us about how we should be managing appendicitisOpen
QuotationI am not gonna use this as a treatment protocol. I'm treating this as, uh, that's good to know that this is an optionOpen
StatementAt Nationwide, a separate small population with appendicoliths was allowed enrollment, but that arm was stopped based on the failure rate.Open
StatementIn a cohort of patients with post-appendectomy abscesses, outcomes were relatively equivalent between drain and no drain, but the biggest abscesses and worst patients received drains.Open
StatementAfter size-matching to 17.5 cm² (AP versus lateral in axial dimension), there was an advantage to not having a drain.Open
StatementFor abscesses less than 20 cm² (less than 4 x 5 cm), drains are typically discouraged because the advantage is small and drains add an extra anesthetic, procedure, and may increase length of stay.Open
Biliary Atresia, Appendicitis, Intestinal Failure, and Anesthetic...
StatementDr. Ponsky's chief of anesthesiology instituted a 'rule of two': defer elective operations until after age 2 and avoid two anesthetics in one year.Open
StatementDr. Ponsky now defers dermoid cyst excision in a 6-month-old until 18 months but does not delay inguinal hernia repair due to known incarceration risk in young infants.Open
Appendicitis with Dr. Whit Holcomb
Statement10-12mm fascial incision is needed to safely exteriorize appendix without dropping it, as grasper creates U-shaped configurationOpen
StatementRetrospective study of over 700 cases using electrocautery for mesoappendix showed almost no bleeding except one patient with factor 8 deficiencyOpen
StatementEarly 1990s experience at Vanderbilt showed 3 children with adjacent small bowel injuries from cautery during laparoscopic appendectomy requiring reoperationOpen
Biliary Atresia, Appendicitis, Intestinal Failure, and Anesthetic...
StatementDr. Ponsky's chief of anesthesiology instituted a 'rule of two': defer elective operations until after age 2 and avoid two anesthetics in one year.Open
StatementDr. Ponsky now defers dermoid cyst excision in a 6-month-old until 18 months but does not delay inguinal hernia repair due to known incarceration risk in young infants.Open
Update Course 2022 - TOP PUBLICATIONS IN NON- PED SURG JOURNALS - Jose Campos
QuotationI met Jose Campos at, I think, an IPEG meeting or something and he came up to me and he says, I said, hi, how are you? He goes, yeah, the stuff you're doing is a problem. I was like, nice to meet you too. He said, you're only looking at pediatric surgical journals and pediatric surgical societies, you're missing all of the incredible publications that come out in articles we don't read.Open
QuotationIt was invented before there was widespread laparoscopy. It came first. Then laparoscopic. Because of that order, a lot of people favor PEG, but it's blind. I mean, you're putting something right through the belly without looking, so it makes no sense to me.Open
StatementThe article by Todd Ponsky Sr. and Mike Goddard on PEG tube placement remains the most cited article in the history of the Journal of Pediatric Surgery, with approximately three times the citations of the number two article.Open
QuotationThe article by Jeff Ponsky and Mike Goddard remains the most cited article in the history of the Journal of Pediatric Surgery by far by like three times the number two article so it's a real landmark paper and we owe dr. Ponsky and Goddard a tip the cap for coming up with this technique when it really was the first minimally invasive way to insert a gastrostomy tube.Open
Update Course 2023 - Update Course 2022 and Best of the Best Recap
QuotationBest of the best is since we can't attend every conference, we invite the best conferences once a year to submit their top presentations that they felt were the best. And we do a battle of all of these people around the world to say, to give you a quick update of what was the best at each conference, and then we name at the end, who is the best of each conference and who is the best in the world that year in, in pediatric surgery.Open
Todd's statements about Biliary Atresia53 statements
Biliary Atresia - Robert Parry: Update Course 2014
StatementRich Ricketts' series showed not statistically significant better results with Kasai at 76 days or older compared to 0-75 days, possibly representing a different disease phenotype in late presenters.Open
StatementReversal of portal flow is a very concerning finding because patients can achieve good biliary drainage and normal bilirubin but still progress to transplant due to profound portal hypertension.Open
Quotationthat reversal of portal flow makes me really concerned because, you know, I've I've had patients that I've done a cassa on have achieved good biliary drainage. They've got a normal bilirubin. But their portal hypertension then continues to ramp upOpen
Quotationthat reversal of portal flow makes me really concerned because, you know, I've I've had patients that I've done a cassa on have achieved good biliary drainage. They've got a normal bilirubin. But their portal hypertension then continues to ramp upOpen
StatementReversal of portal flow is a very concerning finding because patients can achieve good biliary drainage and normal bilirubin but still progress to transplant due to profound portal hypertension.Open
Quotationthe hepatologists can actually limp these kids along. They're not nutritionally in a great place, but they can get them out to be, you know, a year in the absence of a cassai and the absence of a transplantOpen
Quotationthe hepatologists can actually limp these kids along. They're not nutritionally in a great place, but they can get them out to be, you know, a year in the absence of a cassai and the absence of a transplantOpen
StatementHepatologists can manage biliary atresia patients medically for up to a year in the absence of Kasai or transplant, though nutritional status suffers.Open
StatementHepatologists can manage biliary atresia patients medically for up to a year in the absence of Kasai or transplant, though nutritional status suffers.Open
StatementIn patients with end-stage liver disease signs (profound fibrosis, reversed portal flow), Kasai may not improve outcomes and the operative stress may worsen their condition.Open
StatementIn patients with end-stage liver disease signs (profound fibrosis, reversed portal flow), Kasai may not improve outcomes and the operative stress may worsen their condition.Open
Quotationit's almost like um a race between regeneration of hepatocytes and progression of fibrosisOpen
Quotationit's almost like um a race between regeneration of hepatocytes and progression of fibrosisOpen
QuotationI've had a patient that I didn't redo, and I thought surely the thing was a failure because the bilirubin remained elevated, and then at 5 months post-op, the bilirubin dropped to normalOpen
StatementSome biliary atresia patients show delayed response to Kasai, with bilirubin remaining elevated for months then dropping to normal at 5 months post-op, suggesting a race between hepatocyte regeneration and fibrosis progression.Open
StatementSome biliary atresia patients show delayed response to Kasai, with bilirubin remaining elevated for months then dropping to normal at 5 months post-op, suggesting a race between hepatocyte regeneration and fibrosis progression.Open
QuotationI've had a patient that I didn't redo, and I thought surely the thing was a failure because the bilirubin remained elevated, and then at 5 months post-op, the bilirubin dropped to normalOpen
Quotationif the question is getting them to the OR sooner, now you're going to delay by, you know, however many days, you know, while you're inducing them with phenobarbOpen
Quotationif the question is getting them to the OR sooner, now you're going to delay by, you know, however many days, you know, while you're inducing them with phenobarbOpen
StatementA recent paper in Gastroenterology described a scoring system using liver biopsy plus clinical parameters with nearly 100% ability to predict biliary atresia.Open
StatementPathologists' understanding of biliary atresia histology has improved significantly compared to 20 years ago.Open
StatementPathologists' understanding of biliary atresia histology has improved significantly compared to 20 years ago.Open
StatementInterventional radiologists can perform percutaneous liver biopsy safely and routinely, making it a low-barrier test.Open
StatementInterventional radiologists can perform percutaneous liver biopsy safely and routinely, making it a low-barrier test.Open
Biliary Atresia
QuotationThis is uh Doctor Greg Tia. Greg is the, uh, congratulations, the new uh chief of pediatric surgery at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital.Open
Biliary Atresia, Appendicitis, Intestinal Failure, and Anesthetic...
StatementDr. Ponsky's chief of anesthesiology instituted a 'rule of two': defer elective operations until after age 2 and avoid two anesthetics in one year.Open
StatementDr. Ponsky now defers dermoid cyst excision in a 6-month-old until 18 months but does not delay inguinal hernia repair due to known incarceration risk in young infants.Open
Biliary Atresia, Appendicitis, Intestinal Failure, and Anesthetic...
StatementDr. Ponsky's chief of anesthesiology instituted a 'rule of two': defer elective operations until after age 2 and avoid two anesthetics in one year.Open
StatementDr. Ponsky now defers dermoid cyst excision in a 6-month-old until 18 months but does not delay inguinal hernia repair due to known incarceration risk in young infants.Open
Update Course 2021: UPDATE COURSE 2020: REVIEW OF LAST YEAR'S IMPORTANT T OPICS
QuotationWe are, we all live in our own little country and we do our own little thing. And it's only when we talk to each other from all over that we do true learning.Open
QuotationThis is about rapid fire. We're not doing in-depth stuff here. This is rapid fire, important topics that we feel and that a lot, that's why we bring new faculty in every year, that the faculty feel are kind of the real important points that we need to be highlighting all over the world that came up over the last year or so.Open
QuotationI promise you, I'm making this promise every year, something will glitch. Okay? I've been saying this for nine years. Even a few years ago, the whole power went out in the city and we had to drive to my living room. Something will glitch. Bear with us.Open
QuotationThis only, as you know, this is free. This is free because, and we've been trying to keep this free as long as we can. We try to believe that knowledge should be free as long as we can do it, as best we can do it.Open
Statement26% of respondents use intraoperative ICG to visualize the biliary tree, 23% use it in select patients, and 51% do not use it.Open
StatementGetting phenol into the operating room for sclerotherapy is not always easy due to institutional and pharmacy restrictions.Open
StatementApproximately 50% of respondents always use sutureless abdominal closure for large abdominal wall defects, 40% use it in select patients, and only 11% do not use it.Open
StatementThe adoption of sutureless closure for abdominal wall defects represents a major practice change over nine years, with 90% now using it always or selectively compared to much lower rates previously.Open
StatementImplementing ERAS requires team buy-in, particularly from anesthesiologists, because of practice changes like allowing oral intake two hours preoperatively.Open
StatementMost institutions are either taking steps to address social determinants of health or working on it; few report no action.Open
Biliary Atresia Part I
StatementIPEG placed a moratorium on laparoscopic Kasai portoenterostomy because of poor outcomes.Open
Heat 1 Winner: Dariusz Patkowski, MD, PhD - Best of the Best in Pediatric Surgery 2024
StatementThe thoracoscopic procedure for long gap esophageal atresia using sliding knots is beneficial to learnOpen
StatementThe thoracoscopic procedure for long gap esophageal atresia using sliding knots is beneficial to learnOpen
QuotationI wanna do a whole thing on just sliding knots now.Open
QuotationI wanna do a whole thing on just sliding knots now.Open
QuotationIf it's really true that resecting liver cuts mortality down by 50%, I, I just am curious about the data.Open
QuotationIf it's really true that resecting liver cuts mortality down by 50%, I, I just am curious about the data.Open
StatementData was presented suggesting that resecting liver cuts mortality down by 50% in biliary atresia, though the judge expressed uncertainty about the dataOpen
QuotationI would love to know more about the data, but since we couldn't talk to her, I, I, I, I don't know.Open
QuotationI would love to know more about the data, but since we couldn't talk to her, I, I, I, I don't know.Open
QuotationI think that also could be a huge, um, breakthrough in pediatric surgery.Open
QuotationI think that also could be a huge, um, breakthrough in pediatric surgery.Open
QuotationDarius, congratulations, you're moving on to the next heat.Open
QuotationDarius, congratulations, you're moving on to the next heat.Open
Todd's statements about Bladder Outlet Obstruction14 statements
Fetal Genitourinary Diseases and Bladder Outlet Obstruction: Fetal...
StatementThe area of preparing families and children with normal fluid bladder outlet obstruction for chronic medical care is probably most rapidly expandingOpen
QuotationWe have no good predictors of survival. Many things have been tried. They work with limited ability to predict which uh fetuses will survive into childhood.Open
Statement50% of fetuses with bladder outlet obstruction that survive to live birth will survive infancy and childhoodOpen
Statement50% of fetuses with bladder outlet obstruction will survive to birth with therapyOpen
StatementFetuses with bladder outlet obstruction and normal fluid are delivered close to term to avoid complicating prematurityOpen
StatementFor bladder outlet obstruction patients with normal amniotic fluid at evaluation, the historical approach has been observation regarding treatmentOpen
StatementNeonates with bladder outlet obstruction who survived birth and early infancy historically had no opportunity for additional treatment beyond that periodOpen
StatementThere are no good predictors of survival for fetuses with bladder outlet obstruction, though many approaches have been tried with limited predictive abilityOpen
StatementMany children with bladder outlet obstruction who survived fetal life would die of end-stage renal disease in infancyOpen
StatementFor bladder outlet obstruction with abnormal fluid at evaluation, the approach includes evaluating renal fluid production and quality, preparing for chronic medical care, and restoring fluid to normal levels if chosen by the familyOpen
StatementManagement of bladder outlet obstruction requires a multidisciplinary team including neonatologists, urologists, transplant surgeons, and nephrologistsOpen
StatementThere is now a growing population of adult survivors of bladder outlet obstruction that requires ongoing careOpen
StatementThe historical paradigm for bladder outlet obstruction provides language and perspective for counseling families about other genitourinary diseases such as cloaca in femalesOpen
Quotation50% of fetuses with this disorder will survive to birth with therapy, and 50% of those that survive to live birth will survive infancy and childhood.Open
StatementEscharotomies are performed in the first 24–36 hours if circumferential burns risk limb or torso ischemia; pulse oximetry or Doppler checks every 2 hours guide the decision.Open
Quotationthe first thing we do is make sure that they're well decompressedOpen
StatementTincture of time—observing a child overnight in a collar and re-examining when calm—is a valid alternative to immediate advanced imaging in some cases.Open
StatementOne neck CT delivers radiation equivalent to approximately 600 plain films.Open
QuotationIt takes 600 plane films to equal one neck CT and radiation.Open
StatementIf an initial lateral C-spine film is inadequate, proceeding to CT results in radiation exposure from both modalities.Open
StatementInstitutional protocols typically drive imaging decisions in level 2 trauma patients, with automatic CT scanning common in many centers.Open
StatementFlexion-extension films can be performed two ways: voluntary patient movement in cooperative older children, or assisted movement under fluoroscopy with a physician present.Open
Pediatric Trauma With Dr. Richard Falcone
StatementThe challenge in pancreatic trauma is determining whether there is a pancreatic duct injury.Open
QuotationI think the challenge in pancreas trauma is really trying to figure out is there a duct, a duct injury or not. I think that's, that's your number one, your number one question and your number one concern.Open
StatementThere is increasing evidence that true pancreatic duct disruption is better treated with early distal pancreatectomy, ideally spleen-preserving.Open
StatementSome children can have significant-appearing pancreatic injuries on CT, but ERCP or MRCP shows the duct is intact, and these children will heal without surgery.Open
StatementERCP has the advantage of being potentially therapeutic (stent placement) but the disadvantage of injecting dye that can cause pancreatic inflammation.Open
StatementMRCP does not carry the risk of causing pancreatic inflammation that ERCP does.Open
StatementConservative management of pancreatic duct disruption can work and pseudocysts are manageable and drainable, but this approach results in longer TPN time and longer hospital length of stay compared to early pancreatectomy.Open
StatementCenters that report good outcomes with distal pancreatectomy for pancreatic trauma are those with surgeons who are very comfortable operating on the pancreas and do it frequently.Open
StatementSurgeons who rarely operate on the pancreas may put patients at more complication risk by attempting distal pancreatectomy, and non-operative management may be in the patient's best interest at such centers.Open
StatementMore literature is trending toward operating on pancreatic duct injuries more frequently, and if surgery is chosen, it should be done within the first 24 hours.Open
StatementThe decision to operate on pancreatic trauma should be made within the 24-hour window after obtaining ERCP or MRCP to confirm duct disruption.Open
StatementIf intraoperative findings show parenchymal pancreatic injury without ductal disruption, the appropriate management is drainage rather than distal pancreatectomy.Open
StatementCincinnati Children's Hospital data showed that before implementing standardized screening, low socioeconomic status and minority children with head injuries were much more likely to receive skeletal surveys and social services evaluation than middle/upper class non-minority families.Open
QuotationOne of the things that that we struggled with is who's making that decision to that which kid needs to be screened and it and how much bias, how much bias there exists around that decision.Open
StatementAbuse occurs in all races and all socioeconomic groups, though economic stress may add some risk.Open
StatementCincinnati Children's Hospital implemented a protocol where all children under 2 admitted with head injuries from mechanisms not witnessed publicly receive skeletal survey and social work evaluation.Open
StatementPublicly witnessed mechanisms are defined as events seen by unrelated parties (e.g., fall from grocery cart at supermarket, motor vehicle collision), not events witnessed only by family members or caregivers.Open
QuotationDespite evaluating more kids, we would, you would have expected if you increased your denominator, um, you know, your percent positives, you know, positive abuse rates are going to drop. We actually didn't see that. We saw it stayed exactly the same.Open
StatementAfter implementing standardized screening criteria, the percentage of positive abuse cases remained at 50% despite evaluating more children, indicating previously undetected abuse was being identified.Open
StatementThe 50% positive abuse rate in screened children represents a biased population because they had injuries severe enough to require hospital admission.Open
StatementA screening test with nearly 50% positive rate is more productive than most screening tests used for other conditions.Open
StatementFamilies find standardized non-accidental trauma screening more reassuring because it can be explained as standard protocol for all families with this injury type, not a judgment about the specific family.Open
StatementAbnormal liver function tests greater than 150-200 indicate good chance of some abdominal injury, but normal LFTs provide very little evidence of safety.Open
StatementCincinnati Children's Hospital has moved away from routine LFTs, amylase, and lipase in trauma patients, obtaining them only when other indications for CT scan already exist.Open
StatementFAST examination has low sensitivity and is very user-dependent, providing false sense of security in stable patients.Open
StatementFAST remains useful for hypotensive patients to rapidly determine if there is blood in the abdomen, which was the original indication for its development.Open
Todd's statements about CHARGE Syndrome4 statements
Aerodigestive & Esophageal Surgery - Difficult Tracheal Esophageal Fistula
StatementTrichloroacetic acid (TCA) can be used to demucosalize TEF tracts, but control is less precise than with bugbee cautery; TCA is applied on a pledget and can cause unintended burns if it contacts tissue during insertion.Open
StatementTrichloroacetic acid (TCA) can be used to demucosalize TEF tracts, but control is less precise than with bugbee cautery; TCA is applied on a pledget and can cause unintended burns if it contacts tissue during insertion.Open
StatementAnal fistula plugs (biologic, cone-shaped, made of Surgisis) can theoretically be used to occlude distal airway fistulas; they are wrapped with barbed suture and inserted into the tract to promote collagen matrix formation and scarring.Open
StatementAnal fistula plugs (biologic, cone-shaped, made of Surgisis) can theoretically be used to occlude distal airway fistulas; they are wrapped with barbed suture and inserted into the tract to promote collagen matrix formation and scarring.Open
Patient Testimonial and Experience: Pectus Innovations
StatementPain team protocols eliminate the need to wait for individual physician orders for pain medicationOpen
StatementHaving a dedicated pain team with established protocols reduces delays in pain medication administrationOpen
QuotationI think having a pain team and a protocol helps. Helps helps get the patients their their pain medicine faster because they don't have to wait for a doctor to get the order and all that.Open
Pectus-Patient Testimonial and Experience
QuotationI think having a pain team and a protocol helps. Helps helps get the patients their their pain medicine faster because they don't have to wait for a doctor to get the order and all that.Open
StatementHaving a pain team and protocol helps patients receive pain medicine faster because they don't have to wait for a doctor to write the orderOpen
Todd's statements about Choledochal Cyst / Biliary1 statement
Journal of pediatric surgery Article Review: April 2023, IPEG issue
QuotationI love it. And I think it's great to have a measurement tool that actually has use for clinical decision-making rather than just noting the severity is actually will help guide you in surgery.Open
Todd's statements about Cholelithiasis13 statements
QuotationIt really depends on the patient and the situation.Open
QuotationI typically do it before they go home, and I have not found that it's prohibitively difficult in most cases to do the operation.Open
QuotationSo 2% of the time in patients, even if they have no stones, they will get recurrent pancreatitis from their initial insult, whereas 60% if you wait 6 weeks. That is so provocative. That is so clear cut that nobody should be debating this anymore.Open
StatementEven in patients with no stones remaining, 2% will get recurrent pancreatitis from the initial insultOpen
StatementWhen patients present with gallstone pancreatitis, most pain and elevated enzymes occur as the stone is passing, and symptoms often resolve overnight as the stone passesOpen
QuotationSo if your numbers normalize, I do not do ERCP. I will do an intraoperative changiogram to make sure there's not another stone, but I would not do an ERCP if their numbers normalize.Open
StatementIf laboratory values normalize after gallstone pancreatitis, ERCP is not indicated, but intraoperative cholangiogram should be performed to check for additional stonesOpen
QuotationIf I have a patient that comes in with an impacted stone, and their lipase is elevated, the next day their lipase goes up even more, they're, they're getting more and more jaundiced, they're getting worse, I would send them for ERCP because I don't know how good I am at retrieving impacted stones.Open
StatementFor patients with impacted stone, rising lipase, and worsening jaundice, ERCP is preferred because surgeon confidence in retrieving impacted stones intraoperatively is lowerOpen
QuotationSo here's an example of where I am old and washed up. The answer to this should be yes. I just don't have as much experience as my younger colleagues.Open
QuotationI agree with you. I am skeptical of papers that claim that something is now the new standard just because it's become their new standard. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's recommended as the standard of care.Open
StatementICG can be administered intravenously, eliminating the need for instrumentation required by traditional intraoperative cholangiogramOpen
QuotationI think we should be learning about ICG. I mean this is provocative for me to say, Todd, come on, get with it. Like this is something you should probably learn.Open
Biliary Atresia - Robert Parry: Update Course 2014
Quotationthat reversal of portal flow makes me really concerned because, you know, I've I've had patients that I've done a cassa on have achieved good biliary drainage. They've got a normal bilirubin. But their portal hypertension then continues to ramp upOpen
StatementReversal of portal flow is a very concerning finding because patients can achieve good biliary drainage and normal bilirubin but still progress to transplant due to profound portal hypertension.Open
Quotationthe hepatologists can actually limp these kids along. They're not nutritionally in a great place, but they can get them out to be, you know, a year in the absence of a cassai and the absence of a transplantOpen
StatementHepatologists can manage biliary atresia patients medically for up to a year in the absence of Kasai or transplant, though nutritional status suffers.Open
StatementIn patients with end-stage liver disease signs (profound fibrosis, reversed portal flow), Kasai may not improve outcomes and the operative stress may worsen their condition.Open
Quotationit's almost like um a race between regeneration of hepatocytes and progression of fibrosisOpen
StatementSome biliary atresia patients show delayed response to Kasai, with bilirubin remaining elevated for months then dropping to normal at 5 months post-op, suggesting a race between hepatocyte regeneration and fibrosis progression.Open
QuotationI've had a patient that I didn't redo, and I thought surely the thing was a failure because the bilirubin remained elevated, and then at 5 months post-op, the bilirubin dropped to normalOpen
Quotationif the question is getting them to the OR sooner, now you're going to delay by, you know, however many days, you know, while you're inducing them with phenobarbOpen
StatementPathologists' understanding of biliary atresia histology has improved significantly compared to 20 years ago.Open
StatementInterventional radiologists can perform percutaneous liver biopsy safely and routinely, making it a low-barrier test.Open
Biliary Atresia
QuotationThis is uh Doctor Greg Tia. Greg is the, uh, congratulations, the new uh chief of pediatric surgery at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital.Open
QuotationThis is uh Doctor Greg Tia. Greg is the, uh, congratulations, the new uh chief of pediatric surgery at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital.Open
Todd's statements about CICU / Post-op CHD Care4 statements
StatementThe sutureless plastic closure technique was described by Anthony Sandler and doesn't require suturing the umbilical cordOpen
StatementA study by Dr. Baird published in JPS showed that patients with flap closure did better in every way than those with sutured fascial closure, including lower rates of umbilical hernia repairOpen
StatementSpring-loaded silos apply pressure outward as you push down, making the defect larger over timeOpen
StatementThe 'flip flop' technique (modification of component separation) involves incising laterally through anterior sheath only, folding it over while attached to posterior sheath, creating a single posterior sheath closureOpen
QuotationI have never had a patient referred to me with a prenatal diagnosis of any rectum malformations, cloica ever.Open
Fetal Genitourinary Diseases and Bladder Outlet Obstruction: Fetal...
StatementThere are no good predictors of survival for fetuses with bladder outlet obstruction, though many approaches have been tried with limited predictive abilityOpen
StatementThe area of preparing families and children with normal fluid bladder outlet obstruction for chronic medical care is probably most rapidly expandingOpen
Quotation50% of fetuses with this disorder will survive to birth with therapy, and 50% of those that survive to live birth will survive infancy and childhood.Open
StatementFor bladder outlet obstruction with abnormal fluid at evaluation, the approach includes evaluating renal fluid production and quality, preparing for chronic medical care, and restoring fluid to normal levels if chosen by the familyOpen
StatementManagement of bladder outlet obstruction requires a multidisciplinary team including neonatologists, urologists, transplant surgeons, and nephrologistsOpen
QuotationWe have no good predictors of survival. Many things have been tried. They work with limited ability to predict which uh fetuses will survive into childhood.Open
StatementThe historical paradigm for bladder outlet obstruction provides language and perspective for counseling families about other genitourinary diseases such as cloaca in femalesOpen
StatementFor bladder outlet obstruction patients with normal amniotic fluid at evaluation, the historical approach has been observation regarding treatmentOpen
StatementMany children with bladder outlet obstruction who survived fetal life would die of end-stage renal disease in infancyOpen
Statement50% of fetuses with bladder outlet obstruction will survive to birth with therapyOpen
StatementFetuses with bladder outlet obstruction and normal fluid are delivered close to term to avoid complicating prematurityOpen
StatementThere is now a growing population of adult survivors of bladder outlet obstruction that requires ongoing careOpen
StatementNeonates with bladder outlet obstruction who survived birth and early infancy historically had no opportunity for additional treatment beyond that periodOpen
Statement50% of fetuses with bladder outlet obstruction that survive to live birth will survive infancy and childhoodOpen
Prenatal Imaging and Counseling: Cloaca and Complex ARMs 2015
QuotationI have never had a patient referred to me with a prenatal diagnosis of any rectal malformations, cloica ever.Open
Todd's statements about Colorectal / ARM & Hirschsprung134 statements
StatementDr. Ponsky performs suction rectal biopsy in almost any patient who required a contrast enema to rule out distal obstruction, regardless of whether the enema suggests meconium plug, small left colon, or other diagnosis.Open
StatementDr. Ponsky performs suction rectal biopsy in almost any patient who required a contrast enema to rule out distal obstruction, regardless of whether the enema suggests meconium plug, small left colon, or other diagnosis.Open
StatementDr. Collins reports that the Duhamel pouches she has examined pathologically have contained both ganglionic and aganglionic parts.Open
StatementDr. Collins reports that the Duhamel pouches she has examined pathologically have contained both ganglionic and aganglionic parts.Open
Cloaca - Prental Imaging & Diagnosis - Counseling
QuotationI have never had a patient referred to me with a prenatal diagnosis of any rectum malformations, cloica ever.Open
Radiology and Image Diagnosis of Hirschsprung Disease
StatementDr. Ponsky always performs suction rectal biopsy in almost any patient who needed a contrast enema to rule out distal obstruction, whether meconium plug, small colon, or other cause.Open
StatementDr. Ponsky always performs suction rectal biopsy in almost any patient who needed a contrast enema to rule out distal obstruction, whether meconium plug, small colon, or other cause.Open
QuotationI always do. So other than the game of am I right at getting question, can I make it even more broad? I would do it. I do it in almost any distal, any patient that needed a contrast enema.Open
QuotationI always do. So other than the game of am I right at getting question, can I make it even more broad? I would do it. I do it in almost any distal, any patient that needed a contrast enema.Open
StatementDr. Ponsky performs rectal biopsy even in meconium ileus cases.Open
StatementDr. Ponsky performs rectal biopsy even in meconium ileus cases.Open
StatementIf it is clearly meconium ileus with reflux into terminal ileum and clinical improvement, some surgeons will not do rectal biopsy.Open
StatementDr. Collins has seen resected Duhamel pouches that had both ganglionic and aganglionic parts, but does not know what their contrast enemas looked like.Open
StatementDr. Collins has seen resected Duhamel pouches that had both ganglionic and aganglionic parts, but does not know what their contrast enemas looked like.Open
Surgical Procedures for Hirschsprung Disease
StatementThe concordance between pathology and radiology is 75% in rectosigmoid Hirschsprung patients, meaning 25% are discordant.Open
StatementConcordance between pathology and radiology is only 25% for long-segment Hirschsprung disease.Open
StatementWhen starting laparoscopically, you can look at the bowel and often tell what looks normal vs. abnormal, then take a biopsy at that level.Open
StatementWhen starting laparoscopically, you can look at the bowel and often tell what looks normal vs. abnormal, then take a biopsy at that level.Open
StatementIf you start transanally and break through the peritoneum, it can be difficult to maintain pneumoperitoneum when you then go laparoscopically.Open
StatementIf you start transanally and break through the peritoneum, it can be difficult to maintain pneumoperitoneum when you then go laparoscopically.Open
StatementLaparoscopic dissection is easy and gives you a head start when doing the transanal portion.Open
StatementLaparoscopic dissection is easy and gives you a head start when doing the transanal portion.Open
StatementLaparoscopy in Hirschsprung can be used for diagnosis (leveling biopsies, ostomy creation), definitive surgery (mobilization, watching pull-through), and postoperatively (Malone creation).Open
StatementLaparoscopy in Hirschsprung can be used for diagnosis (leveling biopsies, ostomy creation), definitive surgery (mobilization, watching pull-through), and postoperatively (Malone creation).Open
StatementPitfalls of laparoscopy: difficult with very distended colon (poor visualization), need to de-rotate right colon if pulling transverse/right colon (may require small laparotomy).Open
StatementPitfalls of laparoscopy: difficult with very distended colon (poor visualization), need to de-rotate right colon if pulling transverse/right colon (may require small laparotomy).Open
StatementBenefits of laparoscopy over pure transanal: decreases stretch of anal sphincters on high dissections, allows dissection to pelvic floor (very short transanal component), prevents twisting of pulled-through bowel.Open
StatementBenefits of laparoscopy over pure transanal: decreases stretch of anal sphincters on high dissections, allows dissection to pelvic floor (very short transanal component), prevents twisting of pulled-through bowel.Open
StatementCompared to laparotomy, laparoscopy decreases incision size, reduces discomfort, potentially allows earlier bowel function (1-2 days difference), and shorter hospitalization.Open
StatementCompared to laparotomy, laparoscopy decreases incision size, reduces discomfort, potentially allows earlier bowel function (1-2 days difference), and shorter hospitalization.Open
StatementFor transanal alone, laparoscopy doesn't offer much decrease in return of bowel function or postoperative hospitalization compared to pure transanal.Open
StatementFor transanal alone, laparoscopy doesn't offer much decrease in return of bowel function or postoperative hospitalization compared to pure transanal.Open
CinciHirsch - Pathology of Hirschprung Disease
StatementDr. Frykman was trained to stop attempting suction rectal biopsies at about 6 months of age and take patients to the operating room instead.Open
StatementDr. Frykman was trained to stop attempting suction rectal biopsies at about 6 months of age and take patients to the operating room instead.Open
Outcomes and Complications in Hirschsprung Disease
StatementMany institutions assess pull-through specimens using only a longitudinal strip rather than examining the full circumference of the proximal margin; the interface between ganglionic and aganglionic bowel can be irregular and project 2-4 cm longer along one part of the circumference.Open
QuotationMany places still have clung to this idea that the way to assess a pull through specimen is to do a longitudinal strip of the length of the specimen and not look at the full circumference of the proximal margin.Open
QuotationThe interface between the ganglionic bowel and the a ganglion bowel can be very irregular and can project for 234 centimeters longer along one part of the circumference than the other.Open
StatementA survey of Canadian pediatric surgeons found nearly half resect 4 centimeters or less from the biopsy site, and about 10% resect right at the site of positive biopsy, creating high risk of pull-throughs in the transition zone.Open
QuotationLaparoscopy is minimally invasive but gives you actually make even better exposure, so you're not compromising exposure with laparoscopy.Open
StatementLaparoscopy is minimally invasive but provides even better exposure than open surgery; small umbilical incisions compromise exposure.Open
StatementLaparoscopy is minimally invasive but provides even better exposure than open surgery; small umbilical incisions compromise exposure.Open
QuotationLaparoscopy is minimally invasive but gives you actually make even better exposure, so you're not compromising exposure with laparoscopy.Open
Hirschsprung Disease: Update Course 2015
QuotationI don't believe that a pure trans anal is necessarily less invasive. In other words, I believe that putting 3 incisions on the abdomen is actually less invasive in my hands, in my hands, certainly not in your guys' hands, but in my hands, I'm gonna be torquing in that anal canal much more than if I had done it laparoscopically and freed everything up from the abdominal approach.Open
StatementPure transanal pull-through may not be less invasive than laparoscopic approach, as prolonged torquing in the anal canal can be more traumatic than three small abdominal incisions.Open
Hirschsprung Disease: Surgical Procedures
StatementThe concordance between pathology and radiology is 75% in rectosigmoid Hirschsprung disease patients, meaning 25% are discordant.Open
StatementThe concordance is only 25% for long-segment Hirschsprung disease between radiology and pathology.Open
StatementWhen starting laparoscopically, if you break the peritoneum transanally first, it becomes hard to maintain pneumoperitoneum.Open
StatementLaparoscopy decreases the stretch of anal sphincters compared to pure transanal approach when going high, which could affect fecal continence.Open
StatementWith laparoscopy, you can dissect way down to the pelvic floor, so the actual transanal dissection is very short with very limited stretch on the sphincters.Open
Prenatal Imaging and Counseling: Cloaca and Complex ARMs 2015
QuotationI have never had a patient referred to me with a prenatal diagnosis of any rectal malformations, cloica ever.Open
QuotationI have never had a patient referred to me with a prenatal diagnosis of any rectal malformations, cloica ever.Open
Hirschsprung Disease: Radiology Aspect
StatementRectal biopsy should be performed in almost any patient who needed a contrast enema to rule out distal obstruction, including cases of meconium plug or small left colon.Open
StatementRectal biopsy should be performed in almost any patient who needed a contrast enema to rule out distal obstruction, including cases of meconium plug or small left colon.Open
QuotationI would do it. I do it in almost any distal, any patient that needed a contrast enema. To rule out a distal obstruction, I'm going to be doing a suction rectal biopsy, whether it's meconium plug or a small colon.Open
QuotationI would do it. I do it in almost any distal, any patient that needed a contrast enema. To rule out a distal obstruction, I'm going to be doing a suction rectal biopsy, whether it's meconium plug or a small colon.Open
StatementIn clearly documented meconium ileus where reflux into terminal ileum is achieved and the patient clinically improves, rectal biopsy may not be necessary.Open
StatementIn clearly documented meconium ileus where reflux into terminal ileum is achieved and the patient clinically improves, rectal biopsy may not be necessary.Open
Hirschsprung Disease: Cases and Complications
QuotationThe interface between the ganglionic bowel and the a ganglion bowel can be very irregular and can project for 234 centimeters longer along one part of the circumference than the other, so that even if you just look at a longitudinal strip. You could see gangon cells at the proximal margin, but on the opposite side of that margin there may be no gangon cells, and so you may be dealing with a, a low transition zone pull through in that situation.Open
QuotationThe interface between the ganglionic bowel and the a ganglion bowel can be very irregular and can project for 234 centimeters longer along one part of the circumference than the other, so that even if you just look at a longitudinal strip. You could see gangon cells at the proximal margin, but on the opposite side of that margin there may be no gangon cells, and so you may be dealing with a, a low transition zone pull through in that situation.Open
StatementA survey of the Canadian Association of Pediatric Surgeons by Jack Langer found that nearly half of surgeons resect 4 cm or less from the biopsy site, and about 10% resect right at the site of positive biopsy, creating high risk for pull-throughs in the transition zone.Open
StatementLaparoscopy is minimally invasive but provides maybe even better exposure than open surgery, so exposure is not compromised with laparoscopy.Open
StatementLaparoscopy is minimally invasive but provides maybe even better exposure than open surgery, so exposure is not compromised with laparoscopy.Open
StatementEnterocolitis does not occur in pure anorectal malformations without Hirschsprung disease.Open
StatementEnterocolitis does not occur in pure anorectal malformations without Hirschsprung disease.Open
Hirschsprung Disease: Update Course 2013
StatementIn newborn bowel obstruction with distended abdomen and distal air, start with contrast enema rather than upper GIOpen
StatementBilious emesis typically prompts upper GI, but newborn distal obstruction is an exception where contrast enema is more informativeOpen
StatementTissue diagnosis is absolutely required before operating for Hirschsprung diseaseOpen
StatementIn older children (age 2-3 and up), suction rectal biopsy should not be performed; instead do open rectal biopsy under general anesthesiaOpen
StatementIn 3-year-old with severely dilated colon from chronic Hirschsprung disease, the dilated segment is unlikely to collapse and should be resectedOpen
Hirschsprung Disease: Update Course 2013
StatementIn newborn bowel obstruction with distal air, contrast enema should precede upper GI unless clinical presentation strongly suggests malrotationOpen
StatementProne positioning for pull-through is easier on surgeon's back and neck compared to lithotomyOpen
Posterior Sagittal Anorectaplasty in a Female: Pediatric Colorectal...
StatementTotal body prep from nipples to toes is standard for these patients, allowing flexibility to flip between supine and prone positionsOpen
Colorectal - Clinical Practice Updates
QuotationIs there any evidence for anything that, that y'all have mentioned? I mean, it seems like this is the right topic to try to get some better evidence for it, but I'm just interested to know, is there evidence for what y'all are, for any of these uh suggested treatments.Open
QuotationIs there any evidence for anything that, that y'all have mentioned? I mean, it seems like this is the right topic to try to get some better evidence for it, but I'm just interested to know, is there evidence for what y'all are, for any of these uh suggested treatments.Open
QuotationI'll just raise my standard thing that I always raise, which is why are we getting a CAT scan?Open
QuotationI'll just raise my standard thing that I always raise, which is why are we getting a CAT scan?Open
Biliary Atresia, Appendicitis, Intestinal Failure, and Anesthetic...
StatementDr. Ponsky's chief of anesthesiology instituted a 'rule of two': defer elective operations until after age 2 and avoid two anesthetics in one year.Open
StatementDr. Ponsky now defers dermoid cyst excision in a 6-month-old until 18 months but does not delay inguinal hernia repair due to known incarceration risk in young infants.Open
The Colorectal Quiz Episode 3.5: Proximal Hirschsprung Disease
StatementA baby with bilious emesis and non-classic abdominal x-ray could have had distal air and then had a volvulus, requiring urgent upper GI to rule out malrotation before contrast enema.Open
Journal of Pediatric Surgery Article Review: October 2021
QuotationAnd the fact that, you know, we're seeing 85% follow-up is surprising to me and, and Encouraging.Open
StatementThe 85% follow-up rate in child abuse victims is surprising and encouraging.Open
QuotationThis article points out the problem of Gestalt and necrotizing enterocolitis. You know, it's really easy when they have free air. When they don't, we're all different and we don't have a defined protocol that's been built yet.Open
StatementIn NEC, it is easy to make surgical decisions when there is free air, but without definitive protocol for other presentations, surgeons hedge and delay daily about whether to operate.Open
StatementMany surgeons who see the value of bowel management programs lack the volume or resources to build formal programs, making it reasonable to refer patients to nearby established programs.Open
QuotationHonestly, a lot of people see the value of this, don't have the volume or the resources to build a formal program, and it's very reasonable to send these kids to a new Nearby bowel management program.Open
StatementThere is variability in the use of ultrasound versus MRI for detecting tethered cord in anorectal malformation patients, and radiographs are not a good substitute.Open
Update Course 2022 - APSA PDC UPDATES - Mary Edwards, Paul Jeziorczak, Craig Lillehei, and Charles Snyder,
QuotationThe reason that we switched to this, um, is that there are, if it's clearly if airway aspiration, you go to the operating room. It's the ones you don't know. And what we found is the ones you don't know, it's a suspicious story. They were coughing after eating. Um, more often than not, it's reactive airway and it's not a foreign body.Open
QuotationThe reason that we switched to this, um, is that there are, if it's clearly if airway aspiration, you go to the operating room. It's the ones you don't know. And what we found is the ones you don't know, it's a suspicious story. They were coughing after eating. Um, more often than not, it's reactive airway and it's not a foreign body.Open
QuotationCAT scan pretty much almost a hundred percent will direct you to go to the OR or not. So it's very low radiation and it eliminates those that are equivocal of getting an unnecessary instrumentation of their airway in the face of reactive airway disease.Open
QuotationCAT scan pretty much almost a hundred percent will direct you to go to the OR or not. So it's very low radiation and it eliminates those that are equivocal of getting an unnecessary instrumentation of their airway in the face of reactive airway disease.Open
QuotationI do believe that working with the neonatology team on the decision to operate is actually prudent. I know you were, but a lot of people get upset about that. And I do have that discussion now. Ultimately, the decision is mine. But oftentimes they do sway me.Open
QuotationI do believe that working with the neonatology team on the decision to operate is actually prudent. I know you were, but a lot of people get upset about that. And I do have that discussion now. Ultimately, the decision is mine. But oftentimes they do sway me.Open
Journal of Pediatric Surgery Article Review: February 2023, BAPS issue
StatementCenters of excellence for esophageal atresia are showing better outcomesOpen
StatementCentralization of esophageal atresia care would be difficult to implement in the United States healthcare systemOpen
Colorectal Quiz: Episode 49 – Collaborating for Kids: Colorectal & Pelvic Solutions (with a Little Help from AI)
QuotationMark, you're always not only good at anal rectum malformations, but you have been interested in All the tech and the media from the very beginning.Open
QuotationMark, you're always not only good at anal rectum malformations, but you have been interested in All the tech and the media from the very beginning.Open
QuotationWhat M and I are working on is how we can mass produce content to equilibrate knowledge around the world, and we know that the only way to do that is to use cutting edge technology, automation tools and AI.Open
QuotationWhat M and I are working on is how we can mass produce content to equilibrate knowledge around the world, and we know that the only way to do that is to use cutting edge technology, automation tools and AI.Open
StatementNotebook LM is a free offering from Google that can create realistic-sounding podcasts between two AI voices from uploaded documents.Open
StatementNotebook LM is a free offering from Google that can create realistic-sounding podcasts between two AI voices from uploaded documents.Open
QuotationI would love to hear your thoughts, Mark, on your first experience with Notebook LM.Open
QuotationI would love to hear your thoughts, Mark, on your first experience with Notebook LM.Open
QuotationNo one has been able to do it as well as Notebook LM.Open
QuotationNo one has been able to do it as well as Notebook LM.Open
StatementThe AI-generated podcast voices are not customizable; users are limited to the same male and female voices.Open
StatementThe AI-generated podcast voices are not customizable; users are limited to the same male and female voices.Open
QuotationThere's actually an incredible video where they uploaded a document telling these two podcast hosts that they were AI and how they reacted. They freaked out.Open
QuotationThere's actually an incredible video where they uploaded a document telling these two podcast hosts that they were AI and how they reacted. They freaked out.Open
QuotationDo I think this is the future of podcasting? I don't.Open
QuotationDo I think this is the future of podcasting? I don't.Open
StatementNotebook LM's beta version allows users to join the AI conversation interactively.Open
StatementNotebook LM's beta version allows users to join the AI conversation interactively.Open
QuotationYou could click join, and it goes, hey, what's up? And you could say, hey, I heard what you just said about the colostomy. I'm not sure I agree, and then it will talk with you.Open
QuotationYou could click join, and it goes, hey, what's up? And you could say, hey, I heard what you just said about the colostomy. I'm not sure I agree, and then it will talk with you.Open
QuotationThe AI revolution has happened, and each month, it's blowing up and replacing jobs.Open
QuotationThe AI revolution has happened, and each month, it's blowing up and replacing jobs.Open
StatementHospitals should have teams that continuously bring new AI tools to clinicians every week.Open
StatementHospitals should have teams that continuously bring new AI tools to clinicians every week.Open
StatementEm Gootee triangulates multiple AI platforms to combine the strengths of different tools (intelligence, audio, video).Open
StatementEm Gootee triangulates multiple AI platforms to combine the strengths of different tools (intelligence, audio, video).Open
QuotationYou have to have human oversight to make sure they're correct.Open
StatementHuman oversight is necessary to ensure AI-generated medical content is correct.Open
QuotationYou have to have human oversight to make sure they're correct.Open
StatementHuman oversight is necessary to ensure AI-generated medical content is correct.Open
Colorectal Quiz: Episode 49 - Collaborating for Kids: Colorectal & Pelvic Solutions (with a Little Help from AI)
StatementNotebookLM is a free offering from Google that can upload any content and create a realistic-sounding podcast between two people.Open
Quotationwhat em and i are working on is how we can mass produce content to equilibrate knowledge around the world and we know that the only way to do that is to use cutting edge technology automation tools and aiOpen
Quotationdo i think this is the future of podcasting i don't i think the voices are great but it's not customizable enough you're stuck with what it decidedOpen
StatementA review article that took two weeks to produce five years ago can now be created in minutes using NotebookLM with the same 30 source articles.Open
Quotationthe key thing is to be like you're doing and everyone else you have to be looking at ai and using it in your workflow if you're not you'll get behindOpen
Quotationthe ai revolution has happened and each month it's blowing up and replacing jobsOpen
StatementNotebookLM can identify gaps in knowledge across multiple research articles and recognize when new articles fill those gaps.Open
Colorectal Quiz: Episode 2
QuotationYou all both looked at this image and said, you can tell, obviously, that this is too low, too posterior. Without a stimulator in the office, what do you look for to immediately tell that the analplasty was done too low?Open
Todd's statements about Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia47 statements
Fetoscopic endoluminal tracheal occlusion and twin-twin transfusion: Fetal...
StatementRuben Quintero's 1997 staging system for TTTS actually describes physiologic states: stage 1 reflects initial volume transfer, stage 2 represents cephalization of blood flow, stage 3 represents increasing placental resistance, and stage 4 represents cardiac failure in the recipient.Open
StatementOnly 30-35% of stage 1 TTTS progresses to stage 2 or higher; 28% stay at stage 1 throughout pregnancy, and 40% regress completely or resolve.Open
StatementThe recipient twin in TTTS develops progressive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy due to both preload (volume) and afterload (peripheral vasoconstriction from renin-angiotensin activation) issues.Open
StatementCHOP's cardiovascular score significantly drops within 1 week to 10 days after laser photocoagulation in the vast majority of cases, showing the recipient twin's heart has great potential to heal.Open
StatementDiode laser is much safer than argon laser with lower penetration depth and no vessel rupture cases since switching to diode at CHOP.Open
StatementCHOP's miss rate for vascular anastomoses is 0.8% based on placental injection studies, compared to 10-15% miss rates reported in literature.Open
StatementCHOP has performed about 80 bipolar cord cauterizations with 86% singleton survival and over 90 radiofrequency ablations with 83% singleton survival for selective cord occlusion.Open
Stay Current Journal Club: Episode 1 - Ventricular Dysfunction in CDH and...
QuotationI can't tell if left ventricular dysfunction is a marker or an actual cause of higher mortality.Open
StatementCryotherapy is gaining traction in pectus repair, with Kansas City publishing multiple studies showing good results.Open
StatementProtocolizing care leads to improved outcomes, as demonstrated by the pectus repair standardization study.Open
Journal of Pediatric Surgery Article Review: November 2021
QuotationAlmost never. That's what I, that's what I suspected. And that is why I think this is a single institution experience because that's just the way they do it there.Open
QuotationAlmost never. That's what I, that's what I suspected. And that is why I think this is a single institution experience because that's just the way they do it there.Open
StatementTodd Ponsky has worked at 5 children's hospitals and has had to place a central line at ECMO decannulation only twice, never having to reinsert a line afterwardsOpen
StatementTodd Ponsky has worked at 5 children's hospitals and has had to place a central line at ECMO decannulation only twice, never having to reinsert a line afterwardsOpen
StatementIf you just need access, then just use a PICC line rather than a central lineOpen
QuotationIf you just need access, then just use a PICC line.Open
QuotationIf you just need access, then just use a PICC line.Open
StatementIf you just need access, then just use a PICC line rather than a central lineOpen
StatementLeaving a central line at ECMO decannulation may be reasonable in older patients because they'll need hemodialysis more oftenOpen
StatementLeaving a central line at ECMO decannulation may be reasonable in older patients because they'll need hemodialysis more oftenOpen
Quotationthe main reason to, to do it early. not only is it easier, but you have a much less chance of having an infection beforehand, and so it's clean, pristine virgin plains.Open
StatementThe main reason to operate on congenital lung malformations early is not only that it's easier, but you have a much less chance of having an infection beforehand, so it's clean, pristine virgin plainsOpen
Quotationthe main reason to, to do it early. not only is it easier, but you have a much less chance of having an infection beforehand, and so it's clean, pristine virgin plains.Open
StatementThe main reason to operate on congenital lung malformations early is not only that it's easier, but you have a much less chance of having an infection beforehand, so it's clean, pristine virgin plainsOpen
StatementTodd Ponsky was trained to operate on congenital lung malformations at 6 to 8 months of age, but now operates at 3 monthsOpen
StatementTodd Ponsky was trained to operate on congenital lung malformations at 6 to 8 months of age, but now operates at 3 monthsOpen
QuotationSo I was trained at 6 to 8 months. Now I'm down to 3 months.Open
QuotationSo I was trained at 6 to 8 months. Now I'm down to 3 months.Open
StatementIf you feel comfortable doing a partial splenectomy, it works 70% of the time (avoiding completion splenectomy)Open
QuotationOK, so the conclusion of this paper is, if you feel comfortable doing a partial splenectomy. It works 70% of the time.Open
StatementIf you feel comfortable doing a partial splenectomy, it works 70% of the time (avoiding completion splenectomy)Open
QuotationOK, so the conclusion of this paper is, if you feel comfortable doing a partial splenectomy. It works 70% of the time.Open
Update Course 2022 - APSA PDC UPDATES - Mary Edwards, Paul Jeziorczak, Craig Lillehei, and Charles Snyder,
QuotationThe reason that we switched to this, um, is that there are, if it's clearly if airway aspiration, you go to the operating room. It's the ones you don't know. And what we found is the ones you don't know, it's a suspicious story. They were coughing after eating. Um, more often than not, it's reactive airway and it's not a foreign body.Open
QuotationCAT scan pretty much almost a hundred percent will direct you to go to the OR or not. So it's very low radiation and it eliminates those that are equivocal of getting an unnecessary instrumentation of their airway in the face of reactive airway disease.Open
QuotationI do believe that working with the neonatology team on the decision to operate is actually prudent. I know you were, but a lot of people get upset about that. And I do have that discussion now. Ultimately, the decision is mine. But oftentimes they do sway me.Open
BOB in Ped Surg 2023 - AAP Winner - Shelby Sferra, MD
QuotationAre we not making a difference? Are we not seeing Any benefit of all of these uh initiatives to try to decrease. And if it's not working, then how do we change course, or am I reacting too soon?Open
QuotationI deliver in an ECHO center if it's severe. I don't do feto, so I would refer to a place that knows better than me.Open
QuotationI can't think of many centers that do fetal but are not experts in neonatal and ECMO. Like that is so high level to be doing feto that it would be crazy that you would be doing feto but not have all the other elements.Open
StatementFETO does not eliminate the need for ECMO; both interventions can be performed in the same patient.Open
StatementFor CDH repair on ECMO, anticoagulation management involves decreasing heparin and using Amicar before, during, and after surgery, with neonatologists managing the protocol.Open
QuotationWe decrease the Epirin and use Amicar previous, during, and after the surgery.Open
QuotationI did one as a fellow and it was a bloody mess.Open
QuotationI love minimal invasive surgery, but I don't know where the pendulum is swinging right now.Open
QuotationInstead of saying whether it's with a camera or with an open incision, it would be better to understand what is happening in the operation that we believe is causing it.Open
StatementPossible technical factors contributing to higher recurrence in thoracoscopic CDH repair include: insufficient scar formation from lack of tissue opposition, inadequate unfurling of the diaphragm, taking bites at the same tissue level creating a bundle that can pull away, or insufficient number of sutures.Open
StatementBiological patches are not designed to function as a bridge and should not be used alone for CDH repair; they can be used to reinforce a synthetic patch by placing on top.Open
QuotationI would never use a biologic by itself. It's not meant to be a bridge. That's not how it was designed.Open
Todd's statements about Congenital Lung Lesions (CPAM)37 statements
StatementCT scan can identify multifocal disease in congenital cystic lung lesions, which may change surgical management (e.g., disease in all three lobes of one lung).Open
StatementCT scan can identify multifocal disease in congenital cystic lung lesions, which may change surgical management (e.g., disease in all three lobes of one lung).Open
Panel Discussion: Pediatric Thoracic Surgery Part 1-Lung Lesions 2012
QuotationI was sitting here thinking I've heard you give so many thoracic talks, but this is the first time I've ever heard you give everything, and watching each lobe at a time is an amazing value because you see it, it just, it all puts it together and makes sense.Open
QuotationI was sitting here thinking I've heard you give so many thoracic talks, but this is the first time I've ever heard you give everything, and watching each lobe at a time is an amazing value because you see it, it just, it all puts it together and makes sense.Open
Complications and Beyond
StatementJournal of Pediatric Surgery partners with GlobalCastMD and Stay Current app to share key charts from articles through social media for educational purposesOpen
StatementUntil the true malignancy risk of congenital lung lesions is established, debate between observation (Canadian approach) versus resection (US approach) will continueOpen
StatementFor flat-surface bleeding from vessel stump, suture is most reliable control method; clips and staplers can worsen bleedingOpen
StatementFor flat-surface bleeding from vessel stump, suture is most reliable control method; clips and staplers can worsen bleedingOpen
StatementSurgeons performing thoracoscopic lobectomy must be proficient in intracorporeal suturing and tying before attempting the procedureOpen
StatementSurgeons performing thoracoscopic lobectomy must be proficient in intracorporeal suturing and tying before attempting the procedureOpen
StatementSteve Rothenberg makes relaxing incision on diaphragm and places mesh laterally to prevent esophageal erosionOpen
StatementPost-fundoplication obstruction can result from four sites: mesh, top stitch, bottom stitch, or fundus itselfOpen
StatementPost-fundoplication obstruction can result from four sites: mesh, top stitch, bottom stitch, or fundus itselfOpen
StatementPatients who cycle between reflux and obstruction after multiple fundoplication revisions may never achieve perfect outcomeOpen
StatementPatients who cycle between reflux and obstruction after multiple fundoplication revisions may never achieve perfect outcomeOpen
StatementVirginia Commonwealth performs gastric disconnects in cognitively normal patients with acceptable outcomesOpen
StatementGastric distention from large TEF causing respiratory compromise requires emergent decompression, but decompression itself can cause hemodynamic collapseOpen
StatementGastric distention from large TEF causing respiratory compromise requires emergent decompression, but decompression itself can cause hemodynamic collapseOpen
StatementFor EA/TEF patient decompensating from gastric distention, fastest control is open gastrostomy with immediate esophageal control rather than laparoscopic approachOpen
StatementFor EA/TEF patient decompensating from gastric distention, fastest control is open gastrostomy with immediate esophageal control rather than laparoscopic approachOpen
StatementNottingham UK group is collecting series of esophageal lung cases and seeking collaboration with other institutionsOpen
StatementNottingham UK group is collecting series of esophageal lung cases and seeking collaboration with other institutionsOpen
Neonatal Lung Lesions with Dr. Steven Rothenberg
StatementIf using the LigaSure device, do not activate the cutting function; seal, remove the device, and cut with scissors to allow partial division and confirmation of hemostasis.Open
Journal of Pediatric Surgery Article Review: November 2021
QuotationAlmost never. That's what I, that's what I suspected. And that is why I think this is a single institution experience because that's just the way they do it there.Open
StatementTodd Ponsky has worked at 5 children's hospitals and has had to place a central line at ECMO decannulation only twice, never having to reinsert a line afterwardsOpen
StatementIf you just need access, then just use a PICC line rather than a central lineOpen
QuotationIf you just need access, then just use a PICC line.Open
StatementLeaving a central line at ECMO decannulation may be reasonable in older patients because they'll need hemodialysis more oftenOpen
Quotationthe main reason to, to do it early. not only is it easier, but you have a much less chance of having an infection beforehand, and so it's clean, pristine virgin plains.Open
StatementThe main reason to operate on congenital lung malformations early is not only that it's easier, but you have a much less chance of having an infection beforehand, so it's clean, pristine virgin plainsOpen
QuotationSo I was trained at 6 to 8 months. Now I'm down to 3 months.Open
StatementTodd Ponsky was trained to operate on congenital lung malformations at 6 to 8 months of age, but now operates at 3 monthsOpen
QuotationOK, so the conclusion of this paper is, if you feel comfortable doing a partial splenectomy. It works 70% of the time.Open
StatementIf you feel comfortable doing a partial splenectomy, it works 70% of the time (avoiding completion splenectomy)Open
Update Course 2022 - APSA PDC UPDATES - Mary Edwards, Paul Jeziorczak, Craig Lillehei, and Charles Snyder,
QuotationThe reason that we switched to this, um, is that there are, if it's clearly if airway aspiration, you go to the operating room. It's the ones you don't know. And what we found is the ones you don't know, it's a suspicious story. They were coughing after eating. Um, more often than not, it's reactive airway and it's not a foreign body.Open
QuotationCAT scan pretty much almost a hundred percent will direct you to go to the OR or not. So it's very low radiation and it eliminates those that are equivocal of getting an unnecessary instrumentation of their airway in the face of reactive airway disease.Open
QuotationI do believe that working with the neonatology team on the decision to operate is actually prudent. I know you were, but a lot of people get upset about that. And I do have that discussion now. Ultimately, the decision is mine. But oftentimes they do sway me.Open
Todd's statements about Congenital Pulmonary Airway Malformation9 statements
StatementCT scan can identify multifocal disease in congenital cystic lung lesions, which may change surgical management (e.g., disease in all three lobes of one lung).Open
Panel Discussion: Pediatric Thoracic Surgery Part 1-Lung Lesions 2012
QuotationI was sitting here thinking I've heard you give so many thoracic talks, but this is the first time I've ever heard you give everything, and watching each lobe at a time is an amazing value because you see it, it just, it all puts it together and makes sense.Open
Complications and Beyond
StatementFor flat-surface bleeding from vessel stump, suture is most reliable control method; clips and staplers can worsen bleedingOpen
StatementSurgeons performing thoracoscopic lobectomy must be proficient in intracorporeal suturing and tying before attempting the procedureOpen
StatementPost-fundoplication obstruction can result from four sites: mesh, top stitch, bottom stitch, or fundus itselfOpen
StatementPatients who cycle between reflux and obstruction after multiple fundoplication revisions may never achieve perfect outcomeOpen
StatementGastric distention from large TEF causing respiratory compromise requires emergent decompression, but decompression itself can cause hemodynamic collapseOpen
StatementFor EA/TEF patient decompensating from gastric distention, fastest control is open gastrostomy with immediate esophageal control rather than laparoscopic approachOpen
StatementNottingham UK group is collecting series of esophageal lung cases and seeking collaboration with other institutionsOpen
Todd's statements about CPVT (catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia)6 statements
StatementThromboelastography (TEG) can guide transfusion management if readily available at the institution.Open
QuotationThe key is remembering to call and stop it once you think you're in a good spot, but they're gonna keep sending coolers.Open
StatementMassive transfusion protocols have been proven to help, with more data in adults but also data supporting use in pediatrics.Open
StatementOnce a massive transfusion protocol is activated, blood products continue to arrive automatically until the protocol is stopped; providers must remember to deactivate it.Open
Todd's statements about Emerging Technologies in Healthcare Education13 statements
2022 Pediatric Surgery Update Course - Top disruptive technologies in medicine
QuotationWe are very focused on paying attention to what are the new technologies that are becoming disruptive? What do we pay attention to? How do we know what to pay attention to?Open
QuotationI can't tell if this is hokey or if this is meaningful. I also can't tell the difference if this is another way of just saying running through simulation triagesOpen
QuotationDan and I always joke that a lot of the stuff that Em is going to show, we sometimes think is a little on the early side. So it's kind of fun and gamey but not really meaningful. ARVR is one of those things. I think it's not quite there yetOpen
QuotationDan and I always say that virtual reality is still gay and not helpful yet. It's like everyone uses it for training and I want to use it for clinical careOpen
StatementTellaview is a company offering glasses that allow remote viewers to see what the wearer sees and telestrate onto their view, with the ability to turn the overlay on or off during surgeryOpen
StatementOverlaying CT scans during surgery to visualize tumor anatomy with on/off capability is an upcoming augmented reality application for surgeonsOpen
StatementApple is developing glasses that are literally just glasses (not bulky goggles), which will make augmented reality overlays more applicable for surgeonsOpen
QuotationA digital twin is an actual digital replica of whatever it is you want. You could right now scan your entire room and you can move furniture around and it's that's a digital twin of your roomOpen
QuotationYou can make a digital twin of a patient and then you can manipulate the modelOpen
QuotationProgression is exponential. So 15 years ago, it would take 15 years to go from science fiction idea to reality. Now we're seeing it in monthsOpen
StatementTechnology progression in healthcare is now exponential rather than linear, with innovations moving from concept to reality in months rather than the 15 years it would have taken previouslyOpen
StatementMost hospitals will likely have LiDAR scanning technology at their fingertips within 2 yearsOpen
QuotationI think that we'll find in probably 2 years, most of the hospitals here will have some version of this at their fingertipsOpen
Todd's statements about Emerging Technologies in Healthcare Education13 statements
2022 Pediatric Surgery Update Course - Top disruptive technologies in medicine
QuotationWe are very focused on paying attention to what are the new technologies that are becoming disruptive? What do we pay attention to? How do we know what to pay attention to?Open
QuotationI can't tell if this is hokey or if this is meaningful. I also can't tell the difference if this is another way of just saying running through simulation triagesOpen
QuotationDan and I always joke that a lot of the stuff that Em is going to show, we sometimes think is a little on the early side. So it's kind of fun and gamey but not really meaningful. ARVR is one of those things. I think it's not quite there yetOpen
QuotationDan and I always say that virtual reality is still gay and not helpful yet. It's like everyone uses it for training and I want to use it for clinical careOpen
StatementTellaview is a company offering glasses that allow remote viewers to see what the wearer sees and telestrate onto their view, with the ability to turn the overlay on or off during surgeryOpen
StatementOverlaying CT scans during surgery to visualize tumor anatomy with on/off capability is an upcoming augmented reality application for surgeonsOpen
StatementApple is developing glasses that are literally just glasses (not bulky goggles), which will make augmented reality overlays more applicable for surgeonsOpen
QuotationA digital twin is an actual digital replica of whatever it is you want. You could right now scan your entire room and you can move furniture around and it's that's a digital twin of your roomOpen
QuotationYou can make a digital twin of a patient and then you can manipulate the modelOpen
QuotationProgression is exponential. So 15 years ago, it would take 15 years to go from science fiction idea to reality. Now we're seeing it in monthsOpen
StatementTechnology progression in healthcare is now exponential rather than linear, with innovations moving from concept to reality in months rather than the 15 years it would have taken previouslyOpen
StatementMost hospitals will likely have LiDAR scanning technology at their fingertips within 2 yearsOpen
QuotationI think that we'll find in probably 2 years, most of the hospitals here will have some version of this at their fingertipsOpen
StatementStandard VATS technique for pneumothorax includes apical wedge resection and mechanical pleurodesis by roughing the pleura with a scratch padOpen
QuotationI've gone back on some kids that have had that have been recurrent pneumos that have had the pleural roughed up, and it looks like no one was ever thereOpen
StatementSome surgeons perform mechanical pleurodesis on both visceral and parietal pleura, though this may increase air leak riskOpen
StatementTalc pleurodesis distributes uniformly throughout the chest during thoracoscopy but creates dense adhesions that make future thoracic surgery extremely difficult, sometimes requiring retropleural approachOpen
StatementReliable post-operative nursing surveillance is essential when omitting chest tubes after pneumothorax surgery to detect early re-accumulationOpen
StatementA study of 350 patients undergoing lung procedures (not specifically pneumothorax) showed no complications when chest tubes were omitted post-operativelyOpen
Empyema with Dr. Shawn St. Peter
QuotationI have to tell you, Sean, after I did my first one, I walked in the next morning in the ICU. He was so sick that we transferred him to the ICU the night before. He was sitting up in bed smiling, gives me the thumbs up. I said, Can I take a photograph? This is a photographic memory of what it looks like, my first TPA patient.Open
Empyema with Dr. Shawn St. Peter
QuotationI walked in the next morning in the ICU. He was so sick that we transferred him to the ICU the night before. He was sitting up in bed smiling, gives me the thumbs up.Open
Todd's statements about Enterocolitis25 statements
StatementDr. Ponsky performs suction rectal biopsy in almost any patient who required a contrast enema to rule out distal obstruction, regardless of whether the enema suggests meconium plug, small left colon, or other diagnosis.Open
StatementDr. Collins reports that the Duhamel pouches she has examined pathologically have contained both ganglionic and aganglionic parts.Open
Radiology and Image Diagnosis of Hirschsprung Disease
StatementDr. Ponsky always performs suction rectal biopsy in almost any patient who needed a contrast enema to rule out distal obstruction, whether meconium plug, small colon, or other cause.Open
QuotationI always do. So other than the game of am I right at getting question, can I make it even more broad? I would do it. I do it in almost any distal, any patient that needed a contrast enema.Open
StatementDr. Ponsky performs rectal biopsy even in meconium ileus cases.Open
StatementDr. Collins has seen resected Duhamel pouches that had both ganglionic and aganglionic parts, but does not know what their contrast enemas looked like.Open
Outcomes and Complications in Hirschsprung Disease
QuotationLaparoscopy is minimally invasive but gives you actually make even better exposure, so you're not compromising exposure with laparoscopy.Open
StatementLaparoscopy is minimally invasive but provides even better exposure than open surgery; small umbilical incisions compromise exposure.Open
Hirschsprung Disease: Update Course 2015
QuotationI don't believe that a pure trans anal is necessarily less invasive. In other words, I believe that putting 3 incisions on the abdomen is actually less invasive in my hands, in my hands, certainly not in your guys' hands, but in my hands, I'm gonna be torquing in that anal canal much more than if I had done it laparoscopically and freed everything up from the abdominal approach.Open
StatementPure transanal pull-through may not be less invasive than laparoscopic approach, as prolonged torquing in the anal canal can be more traumatic than three small abdominal incisions.Open
Hirschsprung Disease: Radiology Aspect
StatementRectal biopsy should be performed in almost any patient who needed a contrast enema to rule out distal obstruction, including cases of meconium plug or small left colon.Open
QuotationI would do it. I do it in almost any distal, any patient that needed a contrast enema. To rule out a distal obstruction, I'm going to be doing a suction rectal biopsy, whether it's meconium plug or a small colon.Open
StatementIn clearly documented meconium ileus where reflux into terminal ileum is achieved and the patient clinically improves, rectal biopsy may not be necessary.Open
Hirschsprung Disease: Cases and Complications
QuotationThe interface between the ganglionic bowel and the a ganglion bowel can be very irregular and can project for 234 centimeters longer along one part of the circumference than the other, so that even if you just look at a longitudinal strip. You could see gangon cells at the proximal margin, but on the opposite side of that margin there may be no gangon cells, and so you may be dealing with a, a low transition zone pull through in that situation.Open
StatementLaparoscopy is minimally invasive but provides maybe even better exposure than open surgery, so exposure is not compromised with laparoscopy.Open
StatementEnterocolitis does not occur in pure anorectal malformations without Hirschsprung disease.Open
Hirschsprung Disease: Update Course 2013
StatementIn newborn bowel obstruction with distended abdomen and distal air, start with contrast enema rather than upper GIOpen
StatementBilious emesis typically prompts upper GI, but newborn distal obstruction is an exception where contrast enema is more informativeOpen
StatementTissue diagnosis is absolutely required before operating for Hirschsprung diseaseOpen
StatementIn older children (age 2-3 and up), suction rectal biopsy should not be performed; instead do open rectal biopsy under general anesthesiaOpen
StatementIn 3-year-old with severely dilated colon from chronic Hirschsprung disease, the dilated segment is unlikely to collapse and should be resectedOpen
Hirschsprung Disease: Update Course 2013
StatementIn newborn bowel obstruction with distal air, contrast enema should precede upper GI unless clinical presentation strongly suggests malrotationOpen
StatementProne positioning for pull-through is easier on surgeon's back and neck compared to lithotomyOpen
Colorectal - Clinical Practice Updates
QuotationIs there any evidence for anything that, that y'all have mentioned? I mean, it seems like this is the right topic to try to get some better evidence for it, but I'm just interested to know, is there evidence for what y'all are, for any of these uh suggested treatments.Open
QuotationI'll just raise my standard thing that I always raise, which is why are we getting a CAT scan?Open
Todd's statements about Esophageal Atresia111 statements
Glycopyrrolate for Anastomtic Dehiscence in Esophageal Atresia
QuotationOK, so the results are pretty astounding. The Robinol or the glycopyrolate group really had impressive results compared to the placebo group.Open
QuotationI think this is a great study to review because it's a novel treatment that can have substantial effect on a very complicated problem we all deal with. I know that I'll change my practice based on this and start giving Roben all to my, uh, leaks after TEF repairOpen
StatementGlycopyrrolate is a novel treatment that can have substantial effect on the complicated problem of anastomotic leak after esophageal atresia repairOpen
Thoracoscopic TEF Repair, Is It Really Better Than Open? Update Course 2018
QuotationEvery year we try to do a session on technique and um so this year, uh, Doctor Rothenberg is going to talk to us about the thoracoscopic TEF.Open
Quotationthe more shocking thing to me was that I thought that's higher than I would have expected for the world.Open
QuotationI think I'd be very cautious about a broad paint stroke of all. EA's being repaired thoracoscopically because there's, uh, we selectively choose the ones, so that we can get optimize the outcomes based on the technique and skill of the surgeon.Open
Aerodigestive & Esophageal Surgery - The Unsalvageable Esophagus & Cases
QuotationSome people believe that you have to use a scope to measure the true gap. I may not be at the end.Open
QuotationSome people believe that you have to use a scope to measure the true gap. I may not be at the end.Open
StatementIn long-gap atresia, some surgeons use a Hagar dilator to measure the gap, but this may not reach the true end of the distal pouch. A flexible scope is more reliable for accurate gap measurement.Open
StatementIn long-gap atresia, some surgeons use a Hagar dilator to measure the gap, but this may not reach the true end of the distal pouch. A flexible scope is more reliable for accurate gap measurement.Open
StatementIn experimental porcine models of endoscopic Foker (using olive beads and wire traction), pressure necrosis at the anastomotic site is the suspected cause of death.Open
QuotationThe only problem is the pigs keep dying.Open
StatementIn experimental porcine models of endoscopic Foker (using olive beads and wire traction), pressure necrosis at the anastomotic site is the suspected cause of death.Open
QuotationThe only problem is the pigs keep dying.Open
StatementIntraluminal magnetic anastomosis is being developed as a minimally invasive approach to long-gap atresia, with the goal of reducing pressure necrosis compared to bead-based traction.Open
StatementIntraluminal magnetic anastomosis is being developed as a minimally invasive approach to long-gap atresia, with the goal of reducing pressure necrosis compared to bead-based traction.Open
QuotationThe whole big controversial thing is, do, are we trying too hard to save the esophagus?Open
QuotationThe whole big controversial thing is, do, are we trying too hard to save the esophagus?Open
QuotationStents don't work in, in scarred, uh, form strictures that are not fresh.Open
QuotationStents don't work in, in scarred, uh, form strictures that are not fresh.Open
StatementPlacing endoscopes from above and below during thoracoscopic stricture resection allows identification of the stricture by transillumination ('go to the light').Open
StatementPlacing endoscopes from above and below during thoracoscopic stricture resection allows identification of the stricture by transillumination ('go to the light').Open
StatementMagnetic compression anastomosis (magnamosis) has been used successfully for gastrojejunostomy but is unproven in the esophagus. The main limitations are the distance magnets can attract across and the lack of mucosal lining in the resulting anastomosis.Open
StatementMagnetic compression anastomosis (magnamosis) has been used successfully for gastrojejunostomy but is unproven in the esophagus. The main limitations are the distance magnets can attract across and the lack of mucosal lining in the resulting anastomosis.Open
StatementSerial bougie dilation (e.g., Maloney or Savary dilators) is less effective than balloon dilation for esophageal strictures. Balloon dilation applies radial force and can crack scar tissue without requiring needle knife incision.Open
StatementSerial bougie dilation (e.g., Maloney or Savary dilators) is less effective than balloon dilation for esophageal strictures. Balloon dilation applies radial force and can crack scar tissue without requiring needle knife incision.Open
QuotationI always tease our gastroenterologists that it's impossible to remove the endoscope without bringing out tissue with it.Open
QuotationI always tease our gastroenterologists that it's impossible to remove the endoscope without bringing out tissue with it.Open
StatementMobilizing the gastroesophageal junction to achieve length for primary esophageal anastomosis effectively creates a hiatal hernia and predisposes to reflux.Open
StatementMobilizing the gastroesophageal junction to achieve length for primary esophageal anastomosis effectively creates a hiatal hernia and predisposes to reflux.Open
QuotationClearly I had ischemia because it was 100% a technical issue, whether it was ischemia.Open
QuotationClearly I had ischemia because it was 100% a technical issue, whether it was ischemia.Open
StatementFor a spit fistula to avoid recurrent TEF, the distal esophageal stump must be fully mobilized down to the diaphragm and separated from the trachea, not just divided and dropped.Open
StatementFor a spit fistula to avoid recurrent TEF, the distal esophageal stump must be fully mobilized down to the diaphragm and separated from the trachea, not just divided and dropped.Open
QuotationIt's been a real pleasure being here today and it's been an honor how much I've learned in one day.Open
QuotationIt's been a real pleasure being here today and it's been an honor how much I've learned in one day.Open
QuotationAbsolutely amazing webinar, some amazing cases with excellent skills that you all brought today. I'm happy that you all are there for us when these cases get beyond the norm.Open
Aerodigestive & Esophageal Surgery - Difficult Tracheal Esophageal Fistula
StatementTrichloroacetic acid (TCA) can be used to demucosalize TEF tracts, but control is less precise than with bugbee cautery; TCA is applied on a pledget and can cause unintended burns if it contacts tissue during insertion.Open
StatementAnal fistula plugs (biologic, cone-shaped, made of Surgisis) can theoretically be used to occlude distal airway fistulas; they are wrapped with barbed suture and inserted into the tract to promote collagen matrix formation and scarring.Open
Glycopyrrolate for Anastomtic Dehiscence in Esophageal Atresia
StatementGlycopyrrolate (Robinol) is a novel treatment that can have substantial effect on anastomotic leaks after esophageal atresia repairOpen
QuotationI know that I'll change my practice based on this and start giving Roben all to my, uh, leaks after TEF repairOpen
Tracheoesophageal Fistula with Dr. Daniel von Allmen
StatementPhysical examination findings in esophageal atresia include assessment of abdominal contour (scaphoid vs. distended) and respiratory status.Open
QuotationI personally like to try to pass the NG tube myself, having been burned with NG tubes that wouldn't go down, and the patient was started on treatment as an oesophageal atresia and subsequently found that the NG tube passes just fine.Open
StatementPersonal confirmation of NG tube passage is important because some patients started on treatment for esophageal atresia were subsequently found to have tubes that passed normally.Open
StatementThoracoscopically, the azygos can be divided with energy devices or clips; hook cautery can be used if applied slowly up and down rather than all at once.Open
StatementProximal pouch dissection is similar to separating rectum and vagina—making two planes out of one with no great natural separation.Open
QuotationI will tell you that my Partner here, Bob Perry has now done, I think 5 or 6 of these, and all of them have worked great, so his results are different than mine. I think it must be in the way he does it, but I've, I've witnessed them and they've been spectacular outcomes actually you almost couldn't even tell that there was any stricture at all at the anastomosis after the Fokker.Open
StatementBob Perry has performed 5-6 Foker procedures with excellent outcomes and minimal stricture formation.Open
StatementFor thoracoscopic anastomosis, Vicryl ties down nicely but cannot be used with knot pusher as it will tear through esophagus under tension; monofilament is needed for knot pusher technique.Open
QuotationI couldn't decide between Vicryl or or PDS or Prolean, and what I found is if you're going to use avicrol, which I think ties down really nice and tight, that's typically what I use. You can't use the knot pusher.Open
StatementFor intracorporeal knot tying, braided suture is safe and preferred.Open
QuotationI personally don't divide the esophagus all the way distally after I clip it, so I clip it and leave it, and I don't go to cut the fistula until I'm ready to place my first stitch, so it doesn't drop down toward the diaphragm.Open
StatementWhen clipping the fistula thoracoscopically, do not divide the esophagus distally until ready to place first stitch, preventing it from dropping toward diaphragm.Open
TEF Presentations (Extended): Aerodigestive & Esophageal Surgery
QuotationThis instrument I learned from actually a previous Globalcast and now I use it all the time.Open
QuotationThe bugbee is so useful and underutilized among us as general surgeons.Open
StatementThe bugbee cautery is useful and underutilized among general surgeons for treating recurrent tracheoesophageal fistulas.Open
StatementGeneral surgeons may underappreciate tracheomalacia or laryngomalacia, making collaboration with ENT colleagues valuable for comprehensive airway assessment.Open
QuotationWe may underappreciate tracheomalacia or malaysia.Open
StatementTrichloroacetic acid (TCA) can be used for TEF demucosalization, but it is difficult to control precisely and leaves white tissue everywhere, whereas the bugbee provides more precise control.Open
QuotationI have to tell you what scares me is when I'm done, it's white everywhere because I mean, the whole, it's hard to control it and be precise.Open
QuotationWhen I switched to the bug bee, I have herby bug bee bug beat, um, it's, uh, it absolutely is much more precise.Open
QuotationI'm always afraid because I can't see down that tube, and I wonder not just word in the esophagus, I wonder if I'm really destroying that fistula so much that I'm gonna perforateOpen
StatementFor TEF repair, all that matters is achieving raw-on-raw tissue contact for healing.Open
StatementThoracoscopic diaphragmatic hernia repairs may have a higher recurrence rate than open repairs, possibly because they do not cause enough raw-on-raw tissue contact.Open
StatementAnal fistula plugs made of biologic material (surgesis) can be used for TEF repair by wrapping them with barbed VOC suture and inserting them into the fistula tract to promote scarring and collagen matrix formation.Open
Leak after Esophageal Atresia Repair / TEF Repair: Discussion of World Experts
Quotationthere is a reason why there is a disruption, and most of the time it's tension or bad vascularization. And by redoing the anastomosis, I don't see how you can make it better than the first time.Open
StatementChest drains often do not effectively drain anastomotic leaks; contained leaks can be present on contrast studies despite the presence of a drain.Open
StatementChest drains may cause pain, potentially increase leak rate, and often do not work, which are reasons not to leave them routinely.Open
Quotationin our experience of these drains actually don't drain the leak. Um, I saw this when I was training, and I see it now with my colleagues who still put drains in. Uh, we get routine contrast studies, and there's sometimes a leak that's contained, and it's not drained by the drain. So to me, it's, it's causing pain, it may increase your leak rate, and it doesn't even work most. Of the time. So that's why I don't leave drains.Open
Introduction and Panel Discussion: EA & TEF
QuotationI have seen at least three patients who, uh, were referred because of what was called a recurrent tracheoesophageal fistula. Uh, by very experienced pediatric surgeons, where the fistula was not a recurrent one, it was a missed upper pouch fistula.Open
StatementAt least three patients referred for 'recurrent' TEF actually had missed upper pouch fistulas, which are easier to repair than true recurrences.Open
QuotationI've seen some papers come through just recently, uh, as the editor of, uh, Pediatric Surgery International of babies with, uh, gaps of 2.5 centimeters, and the title of the paper was the Management of Long gap esophageal atresia. I would venture to say that everybody here at the table and everybody on the faculty would not call a 2.5 centimeter gap long gap.Open
StatementMeta-analyses of long-gap EA are difficult to interpret because studies use inconsistent definitions of 'long gap'; some papers label 2.5 cm gaps as long gap, which most surgeons would not.Open
Quotationthe time your anastomosis is the weakest is about 5 to 7 days. And that's the time when we routinely. Wake them up.Open
Complications and Beyond
StatementJournal of Pediatric Surgery partners with GlobalCastMD and Stay Current app to share key charts from articles through social media for educational purposesOpen
StatementUntil the true malignancy risk of congenital lung lesions is established, debate between observation (Canadian approach) versus resection (US approach) will continueOpen
StatementFor flat-surface bleeding from vessel stump, suture is most reliable control method; clips and staplers can worsen bleedingOpen
StatementSurgeons performing thoracoscopic lobectomy must be proficient in intracorporeal suturing and tying before attempting the procedureOpen
StatementSteve Rothenberg makes relaxing incision on diaphragm and places mesh laterally to prevent esophageal erosionOpen
StatementPost-fundoplication obstruction can result from four sites: mesh, top stitch, bottom stitch, or fundus itselfOpen
StatementPatients who cycle between reflux and obstruction after multiple fundoplication revisions may never achieve perfect outcomeOpen
StatementVirginia Commonwealth performs gastric disconnects in cognitively normal patients with acceptable outcomesOpen
StatementGastric distention from large TEF causing respiratory compromise requires emergent decompression, but decompression itself can cause hemodynamic collapseOpen
StatementFor EA/TEF patient decompensating from gastric distention, fastest control is open gastrostomy with immediate esophageal control rather than laparoscopic approachOpen
StatementNottingham UK group is collecting series of esophageal lung cases and seeking collaboration with other institutionsOpen
Tracheoesophageal Fistula with Dr. Daniel von Allmen
StatementProximal pouch dissection is similar to separating rectum and vagina - making two planes out of one without great natural separationOpen
QuotationI will tell you that there's so much debate on this, and I know that from experience people have strong feelings one way or the other.Open
StatementMarcelo Martinez Ferro's 'spaghetti trick' - grabbing and twirling tip of proximal pouch shows the dissection plane nicelyOpen
StatementVicryl ties down nice and tight but cannot use knot pusher for first stitch under tension as it will tear through esophagus; need monofilament for extracorporeal knotsOpen
StatementBraided suture is safe for all intracorporeal techniqueOpen
StatementAfter clipping fistula, do not divide it completely until ready to place first stitch so distal esophagus doesn't drop toward diaphragmOpen
StatementMust be able to see and incorporate mucosa on every stitch; hanging stitch helps visualize lumen of both proximal and distal endsOpen
StatementCan position ET tube after bronchoscopy to selectively ventilate left lungOpen
StatementLeak increases risk of postoperative strictureOpen
StatementPediatric surgeons don't do fantastic job of long-term follow-up with TEF patientsOpen
Update Course Rewind: Magnet Therapy for Esophageal Atresia
QuotationYou don't lose anything by trying to go in and do the dissection to see if you can get them together.Open
Journal of Pediatric Surgery Article Review: December 2021
Quotationwhat ERAS has taught us. is that we can push the limits on, on some of the traditional thinking of how these patients need to stay in the hospital for a while, get traditional narcotics and all these long therapies, and in this crazy pandemic as we're trying to figure out how to mobilize hospital beds and get patients out of the hospital, ERAS kind of set us up for that.Open
Case Based Journal Review: Esophageal Atresia in 2022
QuotationI would divide the azyous, but that's purely because that's how I was trained.Open
QuotationI Never like dividing it. You're in this tiny little space and you're cauterizing a vein that you kind of know you don't need to be doing because you could probably still do the operation without doing it.Open
QuotationI'll tell you what's not convincing me, this paper.Open
QuotationI don't need someone to prove to me that dividing it hurts the patient. I need someone to prove to me that you don't need to divide it.Open
QuotationI would say absolutely put it down, but then take it out at the end of the case.Open
QuotationI used to theorize that you should leave a huge tube across the anastomosis, and that would keep it stented open and it would heal wide open. Boy was I wrong.Open
QuotationAnd for anyone out there listening, it's hard to do. That's been your safety line, and to let go of it is a little scary, but it certainly did not impact. Uh, any of our outcomes. In fact, it's probably been betterOpen
StatementIf a leak occurs, it doesn't always drain through the chest tubeOpen
StatementA chest tube may injure, suck on, or increase the chance of disruption of the anastomosisOpen
QuotationIf I were to give a summary of today's selection of articles, the theme is less is more.Open
QuotationIf I felt like chest tubes hurt the operation or the anastomosis or a patient, I could be convinced to stop using them. It's a little scary, but I think it's probably heading in that direction.Open
Journal of Pediatric Surgery Article Review: February 2023, BAPS issue
StatementCenters of excellence for esophageal atresia are showing better outcomesOpen
StatementCentralization of esophageal atresia care would be difficult to implement in the United States healthcare systemOpen
Todd's statements about Esophageal Atresia1 statement
QuotationAll those relative indications like pneumatosis, a fixed loop, any of those things, they all drive me, but not as single entities. Usually I have to have a couple of things indicating that something is going on.Open
StatementPneumoperitoneum is the only single factor that would prompt operation; otherwise a constellation of findings (pneumatosis, hemodynamic instability, fixed loop, worsening acidosis/ventilation) is required.Open
QuotationMy concern with that is they're still sick when you're operating and how do you know if you're leaking? You just can't evaluate the kid's belly after doing a very scary tenuous anastomosis.Open
QuotationPrior to the Washington DC conference, I would have waited 8 weeks minimum and 2 kg. But the data that Andrew Badillo presented showed that you can do early anastomosis much earlier than I had always done.Open
Malrotation
QuotationI think the hardest part for the laparoscopic labs is really dealing with the mesentery in the bowel. I think the laparoscopy is very good for dividing, freeing up the duodenum to obviously taking out the appendix.Open
QuotationYou see how dilated those loops of bowel are? So, that, that's going to always give you a low lying ligament of trites when you have dilated loops of bowel. And that's exactly why I don't get upper GIs when you're just ruling out for a G tube.Open
StatementWhen bowel loops are dilated, this will always give you a low-lying ligament of TreitzOpen
QuotationI don't need a PH probe to tell me that this kid is vomiting. I don't need a milk scan to tell me that. In fact, you know my feeling on that. I think that none of those studies are very helpfulOpen
StatementIn heterotaxy syndrome with right atrial isomerism, there is a higher incidence of malrotation compared to left atrial isomerism.Open
StatementMany radiologists have switched from gastrografin to isotonic contrast (such as iohexol) for meconium ileus enemas, which defeats the therapeutic purpose of the enema.Open
StatementRadiologists avoid gastrografin due to concerns about the hypertonicity of the contrast medium.Open
QuotationI'd say turn around. Treat the patient, not the, not the blush.Open
StatementActivity restrictions after solid organ injury follow the grade plus 2 weeks rule (e.g., grade 3 injury = 5 weeks restriction).Open
StatementIn adults, 2 centimeters is the cutoff size for mesenteric vessel pseudoaneurysms at which intervention is typically considered.Open
StatementFor gastroschisis, bedside reduction can be attempted under sedation (rectal acetaminophen and small-dose fentanyl) without intubation, with success in approximately 80% of cases even when all bowel is eviscerated.Open
StatementSpring-loaded Bianchi silos may enlarge the fascial defect because the compressive forces are directed outward at the ring level.Open
StatementIf apple-peel bowel is ischemic (not necrotic) and not twisted, waiting until the next day to reassess viability is reasonable before committing to resection.Open
Malrotation Rapid Fire Session: Update Course 2015
StatementIn situs inversus with malrotation, the appendix is in the correct location (a double negative), so appendectomy may not be indicated.Open
QuotationThe appendix is in the correct location and he's malrotated, so it's a double negative.Open
Necrotizing Enterocolitis with Dr. Gail Besner
StatementA recent Journal of Pediatric Surgery article showed substantial decrease in TPN use with mucous fistula refeeding.Open
Abdominal Wall Defects with Dr. Jacob Langer
StatementDr. Baird published a paper in JPS showing that patients with flap closure did better in every way than those with sutured fascial closure, including lower rates of umbilical hernia repairOpen
StatementSpring-loaded silos (Bentech) create outward pressure forces as you push down, making the defect larger over timeOpen
StatementCristobal Abello in Colombia uses Duoderm over the sac to compress and reduce omphaloceles over timeOpen
StatementPhil Gazzetta described the 'flip flop' technique (modification of component separation) for omphalocele closure: lateral incision of anterior sheath only, folding over while attached to posterior sheath, creating single posterior layerOpen
Compiled Sandler Rapid Fire Sessions: Update Course 2015
QuotationHow do you know for sure there wasn't?Open
QuotationHow do you know for sure there wasn't?Open
StatementFor gastroschisis with inflamed bowel, bedside reduction without intubation is feasible using rectal Tylenol and minimal fentanylOpen
StatementFor gastroschisis with inflamed bowel, bedside reduction without intubation is feasible using rectal Tylenol and minimal fentanylOpen
StatementSpring-loaded Bianchi silos may enlarge the fascial defect because the outward forces from the compressed ring push laterallyOpen
StatementSpring-loaded Bianchi silos may enlarge the fascial defect because the outward forces from the compressed ring push laterallyOpen
Gastroschisis: Advanced Practice Providers
StatementTodd Ponsky has done only non-sutured gastroschisis repair for the last 6 years and has never had a ventral hernia. He reports 10-20% umbilical hernia rate, most resolving by age 3-5 years, with perfect cosmetic results.Open
QuotationI have only done this repair, uh, for the last 6 years. I have not done a sutured repair in 6 years.Open
QuotationWe did a pediatric surgery event just like this, but for the pediatric surgeons, and we pulled the audience, and I think it was about 75% of the surgeons that did the non-sutured repair.Open
StatementIn a pediatric surgery event poll, about 75% of surgeons reported doing non-sutured (Tegaderm) gastroschisis repair.Open
StatementFor non-sutured closure, Todd Ponsky places a silo on all patients, reduces at bedside, and if everything reduces he closes it by tying the umbilical cord with suture, laying it in a circle over the hole, applying gauze and Tegaderm, waiting 4 days, then changing dressing every 4 days until sealed (usually 2 weeks).Open
StatementTodd Ponsky does not use bladder pressures for gastroschisis monitoring, finding them not terribly accurate in this patient size. He uses peak airway pressures as primary assessment during reduction, watching them to decide when to stop reducing, and looks at overall baby appearance and urine output.Open
QuotationWe do not use bladder pressures. Uh, I don't find them to be terribly accurate in this size, uh, patient.Open
QuotationWhat I use, Joyce, is, um, usually if they're bad enough that you're wondering what their bladder pressures are, they're often intubated. Um, if they're that sick, and so I look at their peak airway pressures to see, so as I'm reducing them, I watch their peak airway pressures, and that's how I decide when to stop reducing.Open
QuotationThere's never a downside to just releasing the silo and letting things back out again, right.Open
StatementFor gastroschisis monitoring, the volume of NG output matters less than the color: even high-volume clear/spitty output may allow feeding, but any bilious output (regardless of volume) means the patient is not ready to feed.Open
QuotationThe exact opposite is true that you can have a ton of spit coming out, but it doesn't mean that they're not ready to be fed, um, so for some reason in the little kids the volume doesn't seem to be as critical, um, as the color.Open
7th Annual Pediatric Surgery Update Course 2019 - FULL SHOW
QuotationJust two days ago, I had a baby that I was operating on. And because you taught me this, the hemoglobin, they were going to transfuse up to a hematocrit of thoracin. No, I learned from the PDC. We don't have to do that anymore. Transfuse clinically.Open
QuotationI use this as something in my back pocket now. So I don't do it, but I have it there. So if someone's not a good surgical candidate, for whatever reason, I don't want it. Then I know I have it as an option, but I don't do it.Open
QuotationI don't know if any surgeon would look at that and go 41 percent failure rate is a success.Open
Biliary Atresia, Appendicitis, Intestinal Failure, and Anesthetic...
StatementDr. Ponsky's chief of anesthesiology instituted a 'rule of two': defer elective operations until after age 2 and avoid two anesthetics in one year.Open
StatementDr. Ponsky now defers dermoid cyst excision in a 6-month-old until 18 months but does not delay inguinal hernia repair due to known incarceration risk in young infants.Open
Abdominal Wall Defects with Dr. Jacob Langer
StatementThe sutureless plastic closure technique was described by Anthony Sandler and doesn't require suturing the umbilical cordOpen
StatementA study by Dr. Baird published in JPS showed that patients with flap closure did better in every way than those with sutured fascial closure, including lower rates of umbilical hernia repairOpen
StatementSpring-loaded silos apply pressure outward as you push down, making the defect larger over timeOpen
StatementSpring-loaded silos apply pressure outward as you push down, making the defect larger over timeOpen
StatementThe 'flip flop' technique (modification of component separation) involves incising laterally through anterior sheath only, folding it over while attached to posterior sheath, creating a single posterior sheath closureOpen
StatementThe 'flip flop' technique (modification of component separation) involves incising laterally through anterior sheath only, folding it over while attached to posterior sheath, creating a single posterior sheath closureOpen
Umbilical Cord Defects with Dr. Kenneth Azarow
StatementA prospective trial at Dr. Ponsky's institution found triamcinolone (Kenalog) cream superior to silver nitrate for umbilical granulomas, with such a drastic difference the study was stopped early.Open
StatementAnalysis of PHIS (Pediatric Health Information System) data showed the mean age for umbilical hernia repair across U.S. children's hospitals is 4 years.Open
Journal of Pediatric Surgery Article Review: October 2021
QuotationAnd the fact that, you know, we're seeing 85% follow-up is surprising to me and, and Encouraging.Open
StatementThe 85% follow-up rate in child abuse victims is surprising and encouraging.Open
QuotationThis article points out the problem of Gestalt and necrotizing enterocolitis. You know, it's really easy when they have free air. When they don't, we're all different and we don't have a defined protocol that's been built yet.Open
StatementIn NEC, it is easy to make surgical decisions when there is free air, but without definitive protocol for other presentations, surgeons hedge and delay daily about whether to operate.Open
QuotationHonestly, a lot of people see the value of this, don't have the volume or the resources to build a formal program, and it's very reasonable to send these kids to a new Nearby bowel management program.Open
StatementMany surgeons who see the value of bowel management programs lack the volume or resources to build formal programs, making it reasonable to refer patients to nearby established programs.Open
StatementThere is variability in the use of ultrasound versus MRI for detecting tethered cord in anorectal malformation patients, and radiographs are not a good substitute.Open
Journal of Pediatric Surgery Article Review: January 2022 APSA Issue
StatementAt Akron Children's Hospital under Bob Perry, the bonus structure required the entire group to reach a certain RVU threshold for everyone to receive 50% of their bonus, eliminating competition for cases.Open
QuotationIn Akron, Bob Perry, the way that he structured the bonus was that the entire group has to get a certain RVU, not a single person.Open
QuotationThat way, there was no competition like trying to steal cases and stuff, because the whole group rose as a group.Open
Omphalocele & Gastroschisis
StatementFor large omphalocele defects, besides intestine, a good amount of the liver is on the outside in the majority of cases.Open
StatementFetal growth is tracked monthly in these cases because there is concern for significant growth restriction.Open
StatementFor omphalocele, besides ultrasound, MRI and echocardiogram are routinely obtained because these patients may have other associated anomalies.Open
StatementFor gastroschisis, only ultrasound is normally obtained to confirm the diagnosis without additional imaging.Open
StatementGastroschisis affects approximately one in every 2200 live births.Open
StatementAfter sequential reduction with plastic clips in omphalocele, the patient is taken to the operating room for delayed primary closure of the fascia and skin.Open
Stay Current Throwbacks Necrotizing Enterocolitis with Dr. Gail Besner
StatementSome babies with peritoneal drains continue to produce stool from the drain for weeks, and if this persists for approximately two weeks, conversion to laparotomy should be considered.Open
StatementA recent Journal of Pediatric Surgery article showed substantial decrease in TPN use with mucous fistula refeeding.Open
Update Course 2021: TOP PUBLICATIONS IN NON - PED SURG JOURNALS
QuotationI would call my radiologist and have him do an upper GI and stand there watching it.Open
StatementUpper GI contrast study is operator-dependent and requires direct communication with radiologist, readily available at high-volume centers but requires more coordination at community hospitals.Open
Quotationthe studies, uh, currently, I think, uh, you know, what this, uh, is hoping to highlight is the ability to use non-operative management of appendicitis in certain cases, but, um, uh, the studies that we have, uh, show that, uh, having the presence of an appendiculli actually has about a 50% failure rate.Open
StatementThe presence of an appendicolith in appendicitis has about a 50% failure rate with non-operative management, making it a contraindication for non-surgical treatment.Open
Quotationso, um, that's, uh, you know, uh, not good enough, uh, for me. Uh, so, uh, most of us actually use the presence of that appendicolith as a no go, uh, for, uh, non-operative management.Open
QuotationI, I would agree that we should be going with normal sailing based on the ATLS protocols. I, I will tell you though, um, that nationwide in adults we are starting to see ambulance rigs. Travel with whole blood capabilities in adults and people are starting to use whole blood even earlier.Open
StatementNationwide in adults, ambulance rigs are starting to travel with whole blood capabilities and people are using whole blood even earlier in trauma resuscitation.Open
StatementCurrent ATLS protocols recommend initial bolus with normal saline or crystalloid solution before moving to blood products in pediatric trauma.Open
QuotationI have to tell you this is, I love this course. It's changing. It's an evolutionOpen
Quotationthe challenge for whole blood is availabilityOpen
StatementThe challenge for whole blood in pediatrics is availability, and thankfully for children, we don't use a lot of massive transfusion protocols compared to adults.Open
Quotationhaving blood bank capabilities, especially. Uh, because thankfully for children, we don't use a lot of massive transfusion protocols. So I, I think you're seeing more of this in adults. Um, some of the pediatric centers are coming along, um, slowly, but, but definitely we're seeing more.Open
StatementSome centers are limiting whole blood use to males and some to children older than 15, depending on institutional protocols and blood bank partnerships.Open
Update Course 2021: UPDATE COURSE 2020: REVIEW OF LAST YEAR'S IMPORTANT T OPICS
QuotationWe are, we all live in our own little country and we do our own little thing. And it's only when we talk to each other from all over that we do true learning.Open
QuotationThis is about rapid fire. We're not doing in-depth stuff here. This is rapid fire, important topics that we feel and that a lot, that's why we bring new faculty in every year, that the faculty feel are kind of the real important points that we need to be highlighting all over the world that came up over the last year or so.Open
QuotationI promise you, I'm making this promise every year, something will glitch. Okay? I've been saying this for nine years. Even a few years ago, the whole power went out in the city and we had to drive to my living room. Something will glitch. Bear with us.Open
QuotationThis only, as you know, this is free. This is free because, and we've been trying to keep this free as long as we can. We try to believe that knowledge should be free as long as we can do it, as best we can do it.Open
Statement26% of respondents use intraoperative ICG to visualize the biliary tree, 23% use it in select patients, and 51% do not use it.Open
StatementGetting phenol into the operating room for sclerotherapy is not always easy due to institutional and pharmacy restrictions.Open
StatementThe adoption of sutureless closure for abdominal wall defects represents a major practice change over nine years, with 90% now using it always or selectively compared to much lower rates previously.Open
StatementApproximately 50% of respondents always use sutureless abdominal closure for large abdominal wall defects, 40% use it in select patients, and only 11% do not use it.Open
StatementImplementing ERAS requires team buy-in, particularly from anesthesiologists, because of practice changes like allowing oral intake two hours preoperatively.Open
StatementMost institutions are either taking steps to address social determinants of health or working on it; few report no action.Open
Update Course 2022 - TOP PUBLICATIONS IN NON- PED SURG JOURNALS - Jose Campos
QuotationI met Jose Campos at, I think, an IPEG meeting or something and he came up to me and he says, I said, hi, how are you? He goes, yeah, the stuff you're doing is a problem. I was like, nice to meet you too. He said, you're only looking at pediatric surgical journals and pediatric surgical societies, you're missing all of the incredible publications that come out in articles we don't read.Open
QuotationIt was invented before there was widespread laparoscopy. It came first. Then laparoscopic. Because of that order, a lot of people favor PEG, but it's blind. I mean, you're putting something right through the belly without looking, so it makes no sense to me.Open
StatementThe article by Todd Ponsky Sr. and Mike Goddard on PEG tube placement remains the most cited article in the history of the Journal of Pediatric Surgery, with approximately three times the citations of the number two article.Open
QuotationThe article by Jeff Ponsky and Mike Goddard remains the most cited article in the history of the Journal of Pediatric Surgery by far by like three times the number two article so it's a real landmark paper and we owe dr. Ponsky and Goddard a tip the cap for coming up with this technique when it really was the first minimally invasive way to insert a gastrostomy tube.Open
Update Course 2022 - APSA PDC UPDATES - Mary Edwards, Paul Jeziorczak, Craig Lillehei, and Charles Snyder,
QuotationThe reason that we switched to this, um, is that there are, if it's clearly if airway aspiration, you go to the operating room. It's the ones you don't know. And what we found is the ones you don't know, it's a suspicious story. They were coughing after eating. Um, more often than not, it's reactive airway and it's not a foreign body.Open
QuotationCAT scan pretty much almost a hundred percent will direct you to go to the OR or not. So it's very low radiation and it eliminates those that are equivocal of getting an unnecessary instrumentation of their airway in the face of reactive airway disease.Open
QuotationI do believe that working with the neonatology team on the decision to operate is actually prudent. I know you were, but a lot of people get upset about that. And I do have that discussion now. Ultimately, the decision is mine. But oftentimes they do sway me.Open
Update Course 2022 - UPDATES IN GASTROSCHISIS FEEDING PROTOCOLS - Jason Fraser, Beth Rymeski, and Steven Lee
Quotationthe reason these protocols at least in my opinion are important is because there's not variation in care generally speaking they've been tried and true and work all right but the nurses know what it is and you know you don't need to call a doctor every time you want to increase by 10 cc's or whateverOpen
Update Course Rewind 2025: Updates in NEC Management
QuotationThey're sick post-op. This is the problem I have. They're sick post-op, whether you do the anastomosis or not.Open
StatementBabies are sick post-operatively whether you perform anastomosis or notOpen
QuotationBowel is a symptom, is a result of the illness. It's not the cause of the illness. The disease still progresses, even that's the problem of going too early. You resect, it's still progressing.Open
StatementIn NEC, diseased bowel is a symptom or result of the illness, not the cause of the illnessOpen
StatementThe disease still progresses even after resection, which is the problem of operating too earlyOpen
QuotationThe data shows it's better. If I feel like the baby is well, I would be convinced to do a primary anastomosis cause I do agree, doing a stoma, doing a silo clip and drop, maybe they won't do as well.Open
StatementData shows primary anastomosis is better than stoma in appropriate casesOpen
QuotationThe data shows that right now, I'm a clip and dropper. I would come back 24, 48 hours later, I would not do a stoma. Because I feel like I would have an answer in a couple of days.Open
StatementHemodynamic markers to guide second-look decisions include lactate correction, thrombocytopenia correction, and weaning off inotropesOpen
Todd's statements about Fetal Surgery86 statements
Urologic Fetal Intervention: Cincinnati Fetal Center
QuotationI think that the challenge is that the data suggests that if you look at the results from the Pluto trial, that renal function is poor in a large number of babies that were thought to be good prognosis.Open
QuotationWe're not really able to necessarily fix or alter the renal outcomes and so that's really why we're not fighting as much as probably expected.Open
StatementIntravillous pressure that occludes venous flow in the placenta is approximately 23 mmHg; resting amniotic fluid pressure is 5–8 mmHg.Open
StatementIntravillous pressure that occludes venous flow in the placenta is approximately 23 mmHg; resting amniotic fluid pressure is 5–8 mmHg.Open
StatementFetal anesthesia for fetoscopy includes intramuscular vecuronium, atropine, and fentanyl to prevent fetal movement and mitigate pain response.Open
StatementFetal anesthesia for fetoscopy includes intramuscular vecuronium, atropine, and fentanyl to prevent fetal movement and mitigate pain response.Open
QuotationI've had trouble justifying doing 3 bladder taps.Open
QuotationI've had trouble justifying doing 3 bladder taps.Open
StatementThe Pluto trial removed bladder taps from its protocol because data suggested the most powerful effect of shunting is in poor-prognosis fetuses, and even good-prognosis fetuses have ~50% risk of bad renal function postnatally.Open
Pediatric Hernia: Update Course 2013
QuotationI also thought that I, I also thought, you know, we could Wait, they don't necessarily need to be repaired right away. But then I read your papers about the very high incidence of incarceration in the first few months of life, especially in the preemies.Open
StatementJack Langer's data shows very high incarceration rate in newborns and preemies with inguinal herniasOpen
StatementIf you have a patent processus vaginalis, you have 4 times greater risk than general population of developing a hernia on that sideOpen
StatementVA cooperative study in adults showed 1.7% incidence of incarceration in adults with inguinal herniaOpen
StatementInguinodynia (chronic groin pain) is much more common in older patients than young children after open inguinal hernia repairOpen
StatementInguinodynia (chronic groin pain) is much more common in older patients than young children after open inguinal hernia repairOpen
StatementMayo Clinic 50-year follow-up study shows most common cause of recurrence after open pediatric inguinal hernia repair is a direct herniaOpen
StatementLaparoscopic approach allows clear visualization of inguinal floor to distinguish indirect hernia from direct/floor problemOpen
StatementLaparoscopic approach allows clear visualization of inguinal floor to distinguish indirect hernia from direct/floor problemOpen
Quotationjust so you know, has a 30% incidence of chronic pain that's been validated in multiple studies.Open
StatementMesh inguinal hernia repair has 30% incidence of chronic pain, validated in multiple studiesOpen
QuotationMost mesh repairs done by the adult surgeons are in patients who are not planning on having any more kids. They're usually older patients.Open
StatementMesh repair has significant risk of vas deferens injuryOpen
QuotationMost mesh repairs done by the adult surgeons are in patients who are not planning on having any more kids. They're usually older patients.Open
StatementMesh repair has significant risk of vas deferens injuryOpen
StatementFelix Schier's laparoscopic Z-stitch technique has about 6% recurrence rateOpen
StatementSEAL technique (Craig Albanese, Mike Harrison, Sanjeev Dutta at Stanford) reports 1.2% recurrence rate, but other centers using it report 3-4%Open
StatementCK Young's extraperitoneal percutaneous technique has less than 1% recurrence (unpublished data)Open
StatementTodd Ponsky's laparoscopic series has approximately 2% recurrence rate (unpublished, anecdotal: 1 repair out of several hundred cases)Open
StatementTodd Ponsky's laparoscopic series has approximately 2% recurrence rate (unpublished, anecdotal: 1 repair out of several hundred cases)Open
QuotationI can tell you 20 right now, there's people in South America that do a laparoscopic excision of the sac and that's it.Open
QuotationI can tell you 20 right now, there's people in South America that do a laparoscopic excision of the sac and that's it.Open
QuotationStudies show decreased sperm quality in patients who had bilateral inguinal hernia repairs, but infertility rate did not appear different in most studiesOpen
StatementStudies show decreased sperm quality in patients who had bilateral inguinal hernia repairs, but infertility rate did not appear different in most studiesOpen
Quotationwhat we did in the rabbits is we just did the stitch and waited two months and cut the stitch out, and they all opened. So I don't like the stitch relying on for life. So I like to, we cauterize, then cut the stitch out, and they all closed.Open
StatementIn rabbit model, laparoscopic hernia repair with stitch alone failed when stitch was cut at 2 months; adding cautery before cutting stitch resulted in all repairs staying closedOpen
Quotationwhat we did in the rabbits is we just did the stitch and waited two months and cut the stitch out, and they all opened. So I don't like the stitch relying on for life. So I like to, we cauterize, then cut the stitch out, and they all closed.Open
StatementIn rabbit model, laparoscopic hernia repair with stitch alone failed when stitch was cut at 2 months; adding cautery before cutting stitch resulted in all repairs staying closedOpen
StatementUmbilical hernia size does not predict need for earlier repair; no data supports operating earlier on larger defectsOpen
StatementUmbilical hernia size does not predict need for earlier repair; no data supports operating earlier on larger defectsOpen
Fetoscopic endoluminal tracheal occlusion and twin-twin transfusion: Fetal...
StatementRuben Quintero's 1997 staging system for TTTS actually describes physiologic states: stage 1 reflects initial volume transfer, stage 2 represents cephalization of blood flow, stage 3 represents increasing placental resistance, and stage 4 represents cardiac failure in the recipient.Open
StatementOnly 30-35% of stage 1 TTTS progresses to stage 2 or higher; 28% stay at stage 1 throughout pregnancy, and 40% regress completely or resolve.Open
StatementThe recipient twin in TTTS develops progressive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy due to both preload (volume) and afterload (peripheral vasoconstriction from renin-angiotensin activation) issues.Open
StatementCHOP's cardiovascular score significantly drops within 1 week to 10 days after laser photocoagulation in the vast majority of cases, showing the recipient twin's heart has great potential to heal.Open
StatementDiode laser is much safer than argon laser with lower penetration depth and no vessel rupture cases since switching to diode at CHOP.Open
StatementCHOP's miss rate for vascular anastomoses is 0.8% based on placental injection studies, compared to 10-15% miss rates reported in literature.Open
StatementCHOP has performed about 80 bipolar cord cauterizations with 86% singleton survival and over 90 radiofrequency ablations with 83% singleton survival for selective cord occlusion.Open
Fetal Surgical Intervention for Myelomeningocele: Fetal Surgery 2012
QuotationIt is absolutely unimaginable how somebody who has no training, who has no expertise, who has not such a fabulous physical assistance of an expert at the table, can do the job professionally and safely.Open
QuotationIt is absolutely unimaginable how somebody who has no training, who has no expertise, who has not such a fabulous physical assistance of an expert at the table, can do the job professionally and safely.Open
StatementThere have been three maternal deaths associated with open fetal surgery for MMC in South America (one in Colombia, two in Argentina).Open
StatementIn the US experience with open fetal surgery for MMC, there have been no maternal deaths and no serious maternal complications in recent years.Open
StatementIn the US experience with open fetal surgery for MMC, there have been no maternal deaths and no serious maternal complications in recent years.Open
QuotationI think 5 years from now, we won't be doing open fetal surgery for this, and that we'll have a single port early gestation bioengineering solution.Open
QuotationI think 5 years from now, we won't be doing open fetal surgery for this, and that we'll have a single port early gestation bioengineering solution.Open
StatementIn Europe, approximately one-third of mothers decline open fetal MMC surgery because it is an open procedure.Open
StatementIn Europe, approximately one-third of mothers decline open fetal MMC surgery because it is an open procedure.Open
StatementFor proper neurosurgical repair of cystic MMC, it is essential to remove the cyst and excise tissues that don't belong, not simply cover the lesion—a step that may be missing in some fetoscopic approaches.Open
StatementFor proper neurosurgical repair of cystic MMC, it is essential to remove the cyst and excise tissues that don't belong, not simply cover the lesion—a step that may be missing in some fetoscopic approaches.Open
StatementIn the MOMS trial, 51% of prenatally repaired children met shunt criteria, but only 31 actually received shunts (approximately 65% of those meeting criteria), compared to 66 of 74 (89%) in the postnatal group.Open
StatementIn the MOMS trial, 51% of prenatally repaired children met shunt criteria, but only 31 actually received shunts (approximately 65% of those meeting criteria), compared to 66 of 74 (89%) in the postnatal group.Open
QuotationThese results, just between us, are not that good. You know, we need to do better. And to do better, I think we're going to have to do something different.Open
QuotationThese results, just between us, are not that good. You know, we need to do better. And to do better, I think we're going to have to do something different.Open
Neonatal Lung Lesions with Dr. Steven Rothenberg
StatementIf using the LigaSure device, do not activate the cutting function; seal, remove the device, and cut with scissors to allow partial division and confirmation of hemostasis.Open
Journal of Pediatric Surgery Article Review: January 2022 APSA Issue
QuotationIn Akron, Bob Perry, the way that he structured the bonus was that the entire group has to get a certain RVU, not a single person.Open
StatementAt Akron Children's Hospital under Bob Perry, the bonus structure required the entire group to reach a certain RVU threshold for everyone to receive 50% of their bonus, eliminating competition for cases.Open
QuotationThat way, there was no competition like trying to steal cases and stuff, because the whole group rose as a group.Open
Update Course 2021: TOP PUBLICATIONS IN NON - PED SURG JOURNALS
QuotationI would call my radiologist and have him do an upper GI and stand there watching it.Open
StatementUpper GI contrast study is operator-dependent and requires direct communication with radiologist, readily available at high-volume centers but requires more coordination at community hospitals.Open
Quotationthe studies, uh, currently, I think, uh, you know, what this, uh, is hoping to highlight is the ability to use non-operative management of appendicitis in certain cases, but, um, uh, the studies that we have, uh, show that, uh, having the presence of an appendiculli actually has about a 50% failure rate.Open
StatementThe presence of an appendicolith in appendicitis has about a 50% failure rate with non-operative management, making it a contraindication for non-surgical treatment.Open
Quotationso, um, that's, uh, you know, uh, not good enough, uh, for me. Uh, so, uh, most of us actually use the presence of that appendicolith as a no go, uh, for, uh, non-operative management.Open
QuotationI, I would agree that we should be going with normal sailing based on the ATLS protocols. I, I will tell you though, um, that nationwide in adults we are starting to see ambulance rigs. Travel with whole blood capabilities in adults and people are starting to use whole blood even earlier.Open
StatementNationwide in adults, ambulance rigs are starting to travel with whole blood capabilities and people are using whole blood even earlier in trauma resuscitation.Open
StatementCurrent ATLS protocols recommend initial bolus with normal saline or crystalloid solution before moving to blood products in pediatric trauma.Open
QuotationI have to tell you this is, I love this course. It's changing. It's an evolutionOpen
StatementThe challenge for whole blood in pediatrics is availability, and thankfully for children, we don't use a lot of massive transfusion protocols compared to adults.Open
Quotationthe challenge for whole blood is availabilityOpen
Quotationhaving blood bank capabilities, especially. Uh, because thankfully for children, we don't use a lot of massive transfusion protocols. So I, I think you're seeing more of this in adults. Um, some of the pediatric centers are coming along, um, slowly, but, but definitely we're seeing more.Open
StatementSome centers are limiting whole blood use to males and some to children older than 15, depending on institutional protocols and blood bank partnerships.Open
Journal of Pediatric Surgery Article Highlights: April 2022
QuotationSo, we already have shown a benefit of repairing these in utero, and now to take it a step further, if you impregnate it with mesenchymal stromal cells, you actually have even a larger benefit in the chance of ambulation.Open
StatementDr. Todd Ponsky states that in utero repair of myelomeningocele has already shown benefit, and impregnating the repair with mesenchymal stromal cells provides an even larger benefit in the chance of ambulation.Open
QuotationI think this paper highlights that this is what happens in an emerging field. You have disparities in what is happening. We're seeing the value of fetal surgery and fetal intervention, and so it's reasonable to expect that there are different levels of what different hospitals do, but it, I think it's great that there are some centers that don't necessarily do interventions, but are having a dedicated team focusing on fetal care.Open
StatementDr. Todd Ponsky states that disparities in practice patterns are what happens in an emerging field, and it is reasonable to expect different levels of what different hospitals do in fetal surgery.Open
Update Course 2022 - APSA PDC UPDATES - Mary Edwards, Paul Jeziorczak, Craig Lillehei, and Charles Snyder,
QuotationThe reason that we switched to this, um, is that there are, if it's clearly if airway aspiration, you go to the operating room. It's the ones you don't know. And what we found is the ones you don't know, it's a suspicious story. They were coughing after eating. Um, more often than not, it's reactive airway and it's not a foreign body.Open
QuotationCAT scan pretty much almost a hundred percent will direct you to go to the OR or not. So it's very low radiation and it eliminates those that are equivocal of getting an unnecessary instrumentation of their airway in the face of reactive airway disease.Open
QuotationI do believe that working with the neonatology team on the decision to operate is actually prudent. I know you were, but a lot of people get upset about that. And I do have that discussion now. Ultimately, the decision is mine. But oftentimes they do sway me.Open
Todd's statements about Foundations of Minimally Invasive & Endoscopic Surgery28 statements
QuotationYou have taught me morals and values. You taught me how to be a good person. You've taught me how to be a great surgeon.Open
Ponsky and Gauderer invent the PEG tube
QuotationI'm not gonna give a lecture. Usually in these things, we all give a lecture about the state of the art of our specialty. I'm just gonna tell you a little story.Open
StatementFlexible fiber-optic endoscopy as currently known began around 1958 when Hersowitz at the University of Michigan developed a method using glass fibers to transmit images.Open
StatementIn the 1960s, flexible endoscopy was used only for visualization of the GI tract without therapeutic interventions.Open
StatementIn the early 1970s, Shina, a surgeon in New York, developed the ability to remove polyps from the GI tract endoscopically.Open
StatementEndoscopic polypectomy was significant because it enabled removal of polyps before they became cancer.Open
QuotationThe chief of gastroenterology said, we're not going to train any surgeons to do endoscopy. We won't train you because you're a surgeon.Open
StatementThe speaker trained in endoscopy in Canton, Ohio with Jim Canyon, performing approximately 500 cases over nearly 5 months.Open
QuotationHe said, You will not touch a scope. Because you're a surgeonOpen
QuotationNext day I got a call from my mother-in-law, she said, Go buy a scope. We got you covered. It's your scope.Open
QuotationBy the time I finished my residency, I had put the gastroenterologist out of business at UniversityOpen
StatementThe speaker and pediatric surgeon Michael Gauderer developed a technique to place feeding tubes endoscopically through the abdominal wall for children with brain damage requiring long-term feeding.Open
StatementThe PEG tube procedure was probably the beginning of minimally invasive surgery.Open
StatementThe PEG tube was developed in 1979, almost 40 years before this presentation.Open
StatementMajor medical device companies including Olympus, Ross Laboratories, and Eaton Laboratory initially declined to commercialize the PEG tube.Open
Lessons learned from the introduction of a new endoscopic procedure: PEG
StatementPEG will be 40 years old in a couple of years from the time of this presentationOpen
StatementIn the late 1970s there were very few pediatric gastroenterologistsOpen
StatementBefore PEG, babies with birth asphyxia or severe psychomotor retardation who couldn't eat required nasal feeding tubes and operative gastrostomy before going to long-term care facilitiesOpen
StatementPatients with oral pharyngeal cancers who couldn't swallow required gastrostomyOpen
Summaries Todd gave as host
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Recaps of other experts' statements, not Todd's own clinical position.
Summaries Todd gave as host · Abdominal Wall Defects22 summaries
Approach and component separation for suture closure and underlay mesh...
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Dr. Abello's Duoderm technique involves creating T-shaped Duoderm pieces that form an external silo, which is progressively compressed like gastroschisis reduction over approximately 1-2 weeksOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Cardiac surgeons report biologic patches in VSD closure turn into cardiac muscleOpen
Abdominal Wall Defects with Dr. Jacob Langer
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Jack Langer said: Dr. Baird published a paper in JPS showing that patients with flap closure did better in every way than those with sutured fascial closure, including lower rates of umbilical hernia repairOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Jack Langer said: Cristobal Abello in Colombia uses Duoderm over the sac to compress and reduce omphaloceles over timeOpen
7th Annual Pediatric Surgery Update Course 2019 - FULL SHOW
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: This single teaching point made the whole update course worth it because he didn't realize this, and it totally changed his practice.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: I think the parents are more focused on the here and now. That is what's happening at that moment in the emergency room. Whereas we as their caregivers need to be thinking about what's best for the total life of the patient.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Parents surveyed for PCORI-funded study said if there was a 50% chance of non-operative appendicitis management being successful, they would enroll in the studyOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: The important point in non-operative appendicitis management is not whether it's effective for six months or a year, but what happens 10, 20, or 40 years down the road regarding appendix scarring and future obstructionOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: In the APAC trial (adult study), at five years, 41% of the non-operative appendicitis group underwent an appendectomyOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Enhanced recovery after surgery protocols have been great at reducing opioids both in the inpatient setting and at time of dischargeOpen
Umbilical Cord Defects with Dr. Kenneth Azarow
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Kenneth Azarow said: Emerging anesthesia data suggesting risks of operating before age 2–3 provides additional support for delaying umbilical hernia repair.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Kenneth Azarow said: A Canadian study by Dr. Baird's group showed that gastroschisis patients closed with sutures had higher rates of subsequent umbilical hernia repair compared to sutureless closure.Open
Abdominal Wall Defects with Dr. Jacob Langer
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Jack Langer said: The sutureless plastic closure technique was described by Anthony Sandler and doesn't require suturing the umbilical cordOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Jack Langer said: A study by Dr. Baird published in JPS showed that patients with flap closure did better in every way than those with sutured fascial closure, including lower rates of umbilical hernia repairOpen
Omphalocele and Gastroschisis With Dr. Foong-Yen Lim
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Fung Lim said: Gastroschisis affects approximately one in every 2,200 live births.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Fung Lim said: In the last four and a half years at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, majority of babies are managed using sutureless closure.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Fung Lim said: At Cincinnati Children's, Duoderm silo is placed on top of the skin of the patient, formed over the omphalocele, and plastic clips are used to sequentially clip it down until it's flush to the abdominal skin.Open
Update Course 2021: UPDATE COURSE 2020: REVIEW OF LAST YEAR'S IMPORTANT T OPICS
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Deflux, a compound used by urology for vesicoureteral reflux, has been reported in case reports for rectal prolapse sclerotherapy.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: There are case reports showing mucosal sloughing with phenol sclerotherapy.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: I think there's also case reports that show mucosal sloughing with phenol.Open
Update Course 2022 - UPDATES IN GASTROSCHISIS FEEDING PROTOCOLS - Jason Fraser, Beth Rymeski, and Steven Lee
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: we got feedback that several hospitals have changed their gastro schesis protocols based on recent publicationsOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Several hospitals have changed their gastroschisis protocols based on recent publications.Open
Summaries Todd gave as host · Acute Pancreatitis1 summary
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Jaimie Nathan said: Dr. Jamie Nathan is assistant professor of surgery and pediatrics, a pediatric and transplant surgeon, and surgical director of the Pancreas Care Center at Cincinnati Children'sOpen
Summaries Todd gave as host · Acute Recurrent Pancreatitis1 summary
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Jaimie Nathan said: Dr. Jamie Nathan is assistant professor of surgery and pediatrics, a pediatric and transplant surgeon, and surgical director of the Pancreas Care Center at Cincinnati Children'sOpen
Summaries Todd gave as host · Aerodigestive / ENT12 summaries
Aerodigestive & Esophageal Surgery - The Unsalvageable Esophagus & Cases
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Absolutely amazing webinar, some amazing cases with excellent skills that you all brought today. I'm happy that you all are there for us when these cases get beyond the norm.Open
TEF Presentations (Extended): Aerodigestive & Esophageal Surgery
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: When they're dead, they're still not dead. They're still going. They got about 2 voltsOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Dead button batteries still have about 2 volts and continue to cause damage.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Button batteries can be distinguished from coins on AP X-ray by a visible rim, eliminating the need for a lateral view.Open
QUAD #1: Cervical Tracheopexy with Dr. Alessandro de Alarcon
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Alessandro de Alarcon said: Preoperative testing includes dynamic CT imaging, pulmonary function tests, microlaryngoscopy and bronchoscopy, and flexible bronchoscopy.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Alessandro de Alarcon said: The cervical approach can assist thoracoscopic procedures by removing residual or regrown large thymus tissue.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Alessandro de Alarcon said: In the lateral approach, the surgical team works on the side of the airway to find the esophagus.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Alessandro de Alarcon said: Pediatric surgeons identify the recurrent nerve for the ENT team to help prevent injury.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Alessandro de Alarcon said: The esophagus is mobilized above the level where the team aims to perform the pexy, making suture placement easier.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Alessandro de Alarcon said: A pulmonologist assists with flexible endoscopy through the endotracheal tube to visualize inside the trachea while stitches are placed.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Alessandro de Alarcon said: The combined approach is valuable for complicated cases or patients needing additional operations for symptom relief.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Alessandro de Alarcon said: Otolaryngology involvement is important both during the procedure and in follow-up due to potential complications.Open
Summaries Todd gave as host · Anorectal Malformation19 summaries
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: we've all been taught over the years that when we do a colostomy for an anal rectal malformation, we should do a divided colostomy, and the main reason to do that is to prevent stool flowing down that could cause a urinary tract infection.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Traditional teaching holds that divided colostomy should be performed for anorectal malformations to prevent stool flowing down that could cause urinary tract infection.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Dr. Robert Baird performed a meta-analysis of multiple studies comparing divided colostomy versus loop colostomy for anorectal malformations.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The meta-analysis found no statistically significant difference in urinary tract infection incidence between divided colostomy and loop colostomy.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Some individual studies within the meta-analysis showed a difference in UTI rates, but the overall meta-analysis showed no statistical difference.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Loop colostomies had a significantly higher stoma prolapse rate compared to divided colostomies.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Skin excoriation, stoma retraction, peristomal hernia, wound infection, and stoma stricture showed no statistical difference between loop colostomy and divided colostomy.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: there we go, we've challenged dogma, and it seems like dogma necessarily at this point doesn't seem to hold true.Open
Challenging Dogma: Does Colostomy Type Matter?
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Traditional teaching advocates for divided colostomy when performing colostomy for anorectal malformation, with the main rationale being prevention of stool flowing down that could cause urinary tract infection.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: we've all been taught over the years that when we do a colostomy for an anal rectal malformation, we should do a divided colostomy, and the main reason to do that is to prevent stool flowing down that could cause a urinary tract infection.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Dr. Robert Baird performed a meta-analysis of multiple studies comparing divided colostomy versus loop colostomy for incidence of UTI.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: he found no difference.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The meta-analysis found no statistically significant difference in UTI rates between loop colostomy and divided colostomy, despite some individual studies showing a difference.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Loop colostomies had a significantly higher stoma prolapse rate compared to divided colostomies.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: the loop colostomies actually had a higher, significantly higher stoma prolapse rate.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Skin excoriation, stoma retraction, peristomal hernia, wound infection, and stoma stricture showed no statistical difference between loop colostomy and divided colostomy.Open
Posterior Sagittal Anorectaplasty in a Female: Pediatric Colorectal...
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Total body prep from nipples to toes is standard for these patients, allowing flexibility to flip between supine and prone positionsOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: The standard Hagar dilator size for a newborn is about size 12, so a size 10 is 2 deviations less.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: In the dilation study with 25 children, the types of malformations were evenly distributed and complexity was about equal.Open
Summaries Todd gave as host · Appendicitis18 summaries
Standardization of Care for Pediatric Perforated Appendicitis
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Standardization significantly reduced postoperative abscess in perforated appendicitis.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Standardization of Care for Pediatric Perforated Appendicitis Improves Outcomes.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The new pathway refined discharge criteria for perforated appendicitis.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The new pathway established criteria for the use of postoperative invasive procedures such as draining an abscess.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Standardization reduced the odds of developing a postoperative abscess by 4 times.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The new pathway established criteria for the use of postoperative imaging in perforated appendicitis.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The new pathway established criteria for the use of postoperative TPN in perforated appendicitis.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Standardization significantly reduced hospital stay in perforated appendicitis.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Median follow-up time post-discharge was 25 days in the post-standardized group.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The hospital had a clinical pathway in place for about 30 years before implementing a new pathway in 2015.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The study prospectively evaluated outcomes of all children treated on the new standardized protocol over 20 months.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The new pathway initiated a disease severity classification for perforated appendicitis.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The study compared prospective outcomes to all patients treated in the 58 months prior to standardization.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Median follow-up time post-discharge was 14 days in the pre-standardized group.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The new pathway standardized the operative technique for perforated appendicitis.Open
Appendicitis with Dr. Whit Holcomb
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Whit Holcomb said: Classic presentation of appendicitis includes pain starting at umbilicus migrating to right lower quadrant, nausea, vomiting, tenderness at McBurney's point, elevated WBC and CRP, low-grade feverOpen
Perforated Appendicitis
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: When patients without a hole in the appendix or stool in the abdomen were grouped together, the incidence of postoperative abscess was less than 5%.Open
Evidence-based diagnosis and management of pediatric appendicitis with Dr. Whit Holcomb
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Whit Holcomb said: Wound infection rate was 3.3% (6/180) for single-incision versus 1.7% (3/180) for three-port, p=0.5, not statistically differentOpen
Summaries Todd gave as host · Biliary Atresia7 summaries
Biliary Atresia - Robert Parry: Update Course 2014
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Rich Ricketts' series showed not statistically significant better results with Kasai at 76 days or older compared to 0-75 days, possibly representing a different disease phenotype in late presenters.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: A recent paper in Gastroenterology described a scoring system using liver biopsy plus clinical parameters with nearly 100% ability to predict biliary atresia.Open
Update Course 2021: UPDATE COURSE 2020: REVIEW OF LAST YEAR'S IMPORTANT T OPICS
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Deflux, a compound used by urology for vesicoureteral reflux, has been reported in case reports for rectal prolapse sclerotherapy.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: There are case reports showing mucosal sloughing with phenol sclerotherapy.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: I think there's also case reports that show mucosal sloughing with phenol.Open
Biliary Atresia Part I
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: IPEG placed a moratorium on laparoscopic Kasai portoenterostomy because of poor outcomes.Open
Heat 1 Winner: Dariusz Patkowski, MD, PhD - Best of the Best in Pediatric Surgery 2024
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Data was presented suggesting that resecting liver cuts mortality down by 50% in biliary atresia, though the judge expressed uncertainty about the dataOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Ian Glenn said: No thrombosis associated with retained catheter fragments has been reported in follow-up studies.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Ian Glenn said: Multiple studies of patients with retained catheter fragments followed for months to the order of 5 years found no complications.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Ian Glenn said: No infections associated with retained catheter fragments have been reported in follow-up studies.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Ian Glenn said: There has never been a report of a problem by leaving a retained catheter tip in, although long-term data are lacking.Open
Summaries Todd gave as host · Catheter Retention4 summaries
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Ian Glenn said: No infections associated with retained catheter fragments have been reported in follow-up studies.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Ian Glenn said: No thrombosis associated with retained catheter fragments has been reported in follow-up studies.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Ian Glenn said: Multiple studies of patients with retained catheter fragments followed for months to the order of 5 years found no complications.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Ian Glenn said: There has never been a report of a problem by leaving a retained catheter tip in, although long-term data are lacking.Open
Summaries Todd gave as host · Cervical Spine Injury4 summaries
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Richard Falcone said: The Pediatric Emergency Care Research Network published criteria in Annals of Emergency Medicine in 2013 for identifying children at very low risk of clinically important blunt abdominal injuries.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Richard Falcone said: Children with no abdominal wall trauma, no seatbelt sign, GCS 14-15, no abdominal tenderness, no thoracic wall trauma, no abdominal pain, no altered breath sounds, and no vomiting have 0.1% chance of clinically important intraabdominal injury and do not need CT scanning.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Richard Falcone said: If the PECARN criteria were strictly followed to scan everyone not in the very low risk group, more CTs would be recommended than pediatric trauma centers currently perform.Open
Trauma
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Rich Falcone said: I personally have changed my practice over the last few years. And I don't do leveling colostomies anymore. I have done permanent biopsies, but a diversion at the at an ileostomy and wait for permanent section, which is much more accurate, and then at some point down the road, do your pull-through.Open
Summaries Todd gave as host · Chest Pain2 summaries
Biliary Atresia - Robert Parry: Update Course 2014
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Rich Ricketts' series showed not statistically significant better results with Kasai at 76 days or older compared to 0-75 days, possibly representing a different disease phenotype in late presenters.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: A recent paper in Gastroenterology described a scoring system using liver biopsy plus clinical parameters with nearly 100% ability to predict biliary atresia.Open
Summaries Todd gave as host · Colorectal / ARM & Hirschsprung38 summaries
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: we've all been taught over the years that when we do a colostomy for an anal rectal malformation, we should do a divided colostomy, and the main reason to do that is to prevent stool flowing down that could cause a urinary tract infection.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Traditional teaching holds that divided colostomy should be performed for anorectal malformations to prevent stool flowing down that could cause urinary tract infection.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Dr. Robert Baird performed a meta-analysis of multiple studies comparing divided colostomy versus loop colostomy for anorectal malformations.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The meta-analysis found no statistically significant difference in urinary tract infection incidence between divided colostomy and loop colostomy.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Some individual studies within the meta-analysis showed a difference in UTI rates, but the overall meta-analysis showed no statistical difference.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Loop colostomies had a significantly higher stoma prolapse rate compared to divided colostomies.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Skin excoriation, stoma retraction, peristomal hernia, wound infection, and stoma stricture showed no statistical difference between loop colostomy and divided colostomy.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: there we go, we've challenged dogma, and it seems like dogma necessarily at this point doesn't seem to hold true.Open
Challenging Dogma: Does Colostomy Type Matter?
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Traditional teaching advocates for divided colostomy when performing colostomy for anorectal malformation, with the main rationale being prevention of stool flowing down that could cause urinary tract infection.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: we've all been taught over the years that when we do a colostomy for an anal rectal malformation, we should do a divided colostomy, and the main reason to do that is to prevent stool flowing down that could cause a urinary tract infection.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Dr. Robert Baird performed a meta-analysis of multiple studies comparing divided colostomy versus loop colostomy for incidence of UTI.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: he found no difference.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The meta-analysis found no statistically significant difference in UTI rates between loop colostomy and divided colostomy, despite some individual studies showing a difference.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: the loop colostomies actually had a higher, significantly higher stoma prolapse rate.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Loop colostomies had a significantly higher stoma prolapse rate compared to divided colostomies.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Skin excoriation, stoma retraction, peristomal hernia, wound infection, and stoma stricture showed no statistical difference between loop colostomy and divided colostomy.Open
Radiology and Image Diagnosis of Hirschsprung Disease
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: If it is clearly meconium ileus with reflux into terminal ileum and clinical improvement, some surgeons will not do rectal biopsy.Open
Surgical Procedures for Hirschsprung Disease
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: The concordance between pathology and radiology is 75% in rectosigmoid Hirschsprung patients, meaning 25% are discordant.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Concordance between pathology and radiology is only 25% for long-segment Hirschsprung disease.Open
Outcomes and Complications in Hirschsprung Disease
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Many institutions assess pull-through specimens using only a longitudinal strip rather than examining the full circumference of the proximal margin; the interface between ganglionic and aganglionic bowel can be irregular and project 2-4 cm longer along one part of the circumference.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Many places still have clung to this idea that the way to assess a pull through specimen is to do a longitudinal strip of the length of the specimen and not look at the full circumference of the proximal margin.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: The interface between the ganglionic bowel and the a ganglion bowel can be very irregular and can project for 234 centimeters longer along one part of the circumference than the other.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: A survey of Canadian pediatric surgeons found nearly half resect 4 centimeters or less from the biopsy site, and about 10% resect right at the site of positive biopsy, creating high risk of pull-throughs in the transition zone.Open
Hirschsprung Disease: Cases and Complications
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: A survey of the Canadian Association of Pediatric Surgeons by Jack Langer found that nearly half of surgeons resect 4 cm or less from the biopsy site, and about 10% resect right at the site of positive biopsy, creating high risk for pull-throughs in the transition zone.Open
Hirschsprung Disease: Update Course 2013
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: A significant portion of fellows at a Washington DC course said they would get upper GI first in newborn with bilious emesis before contrast enemaOpen
Hirschsprung Disease: Update Course 2013
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: the baby's first enema should be a barium enemaOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Tissue diagnosis is mandatory before surgery for Hirschsprung disease; contrast enema alone is insufficientOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: In critically ill patients with enterocolitis, surgery may be necessary before pathology results are available (typically takes until Wednesday if specimen obtained Friday)Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: I've never seen really good results from in a 16 year oldOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Hypertrophic nerves should not be present in normal anal canal, even though ganglion cells are absent thereOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: In children over age 2-3 years, perform open rectal biopsy under general anesthesia rather than office suction biopsy due to patient cooperation issuesOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Manometry is reliable for diagnosing Hirschsprung in older children when biopsies may be unreliableOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: For enterocolitis 6 months post-pull-through with fever, distention, and diarrhea but no peritonitis, treat with IV fluids, broad-spectrum antibiotics, and rectal irrigationsOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Incidence of enterocolitis in children with trisomy 21 is double that of genetically normal children with Hirschsprung diseaseOpen
Posterior Sagittal Anorectaplasty in a Female: Pediatric Colorectal...
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Total body prep from nipples to toes is standard for these patients, allowing flexibility to flip between supine and prone positionsOpen
The Colorectal Quiz Episode 3.5: Proximal Hirschsprung Disease
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: A one-day-old full-term infant weighing 3.9 kilograms presented with significant abdominal distension and bilious emesis.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: The standard Hagar dilator size for a newborn is about size 12, so a size 10 is 2 deviations less.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: In the dilation study with 25 children, the types of malformations were evenly distributed and complexity was about equal.Open
Summaries Todd gave as host · Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia9 summaries
Challenges in Diaphragmatic Hernia Repair: Update Course 2016
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Audience poll: 63% would perform thoracoscopic patch repair, 60% would do MIS repair after ECMO, 67% prefer thoracoscopic approach overall.Open
Fetoscopic endoluminal tracheal occlusion and twin-twin transfusion: Fetal...
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Amnio-reduction in severe polyhydramnios improves fetal hypoxia and reverses acidemia by decreasing amniotic fluid pressure, which reduces placental compression and improves blood flow.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Huber's 2006 study of over 200 laser cases showed 84% survival of at least one twin, 60% both-twin survival, and average delivery at 34 weeks, compared to 29 weeks with amnio-reduction.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: High-volume laser centers achieve 93-94% survival of at least one twin, 88% overall survival, 78% both-twin survival, with average delivery at 34 weeks.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Major and minor neurologic deficits occur in 55% after amnio-reduction versus less than half that rate after laser, with most recent studies showing 5-6% major neurodevelopmental delays and 7-8% minor delays after laser.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Eduardo Gratacos said: Eduardo Gratacos classified selective IUGR into three types: Type 1 with positive end-diastolic flow (good prognosis), Type 2 with persistent absent/reversed flow (progressive deterioration), and Type 3 with intermittent cycling (unpredictable with high IUFD and 20% PVL risk in normal twin).Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Type 3 sIUGR fetuses have the smallest placental share and characteristic very large arterio-arterial anastomoses that cause episodic acute fetal-to-fetal transfusions.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: With purely expectant management of Type 2 sIUGR, there is 48% loss in the smaller twin and 33% in the normal twin, with only 37% intact survival in the smaller twin.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Type 3 sIUGR with expectant management shows 38.5% intact survival in the normal twin and 60% in surviving smaller twins, with very high morbidity and mortality in both groups.Open
Summaries Todd gave as host · Congenital Lung Lesions (CPAM)7 summaries
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Steven Rothenberg said: When using the Covidien LigaSure without the 3mm sealer, do not use the cutting function; seal, remove the device, and use scissors to make a partial cut to verify the seal.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Steven Rothenberg said: When using the Covidien LigaSure without the 3mm sealer, do not use the cutting function; seal, remove the device, and use scissors to make a partial cut to verify the seal.Open
Complications and Beyond
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Journal of Pediatric Surgery partners with GlobalCastMD and Stay Current app to share key charts from articles through social media for educational purposesOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Until the true malignancy risk of congenital lung lesions is established, debate between observation (Canadian approach) versus resection (US approach) will continueOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Steve Rothenberg makes relaxing incision on diaphragm and places mesh laterally to prevent esophageal erosionOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Virginia Commonwealth performs gastric disconnects in cognitively normal patients with acceptable outcomesOpen
Neonatal Lung Lesions with Dr. Steven Rothenberg
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Steven Rothenberg said: If using the LigaSure device, do not activate the cutting function; seal, remove the device, and cut with scissors to allow partial division and confirmation of hemostasis.Open
Summaries Todd gave as host · Congenital Pulmonary Airway Malformation6 summaries
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Steven Rothenberg said: When using the Covidien LigaSure without the 3mm sealer, do not use the cutting function; seal, remove the device, and use scissors to make a partial cut to verify the seal.Open
Complications and Beyond
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Journal of Pediatric Surgery partners with GlobalCastMD and Stay Current app to share key charts from articles through social media for educational purposesOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Until the true malignancy risk of congenital lung lesions is established, debate between observation (Canadian approach) versus resection (US approach) will continueOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Steve Rothenberg makes relaxing incision on diaphragm and places mesh laterally to prevent esophageal erosionOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Virginia Commonwealth performs gastric disconnects in cognitively normal patients with acceptable outcomesOpen
Neonatal Lung Lesions with Dr. Steven Rothenberg
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Steven Rothenberg said: If using the LigaSure device, do not activate the cutting function; seal, remove the device, and cut with scissors to allow partial division and confirmation of hemostasis.Open
Summaries Todd gave as host · CPVT (catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia)138 summaries
Top Ten Things to Remember from the 2017 Stay Current Annual Update Course...
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Reynaldo Garcia from Akron Children's Hospital presented gastric stimulation results showing significant symptom improvement in patients with persistent nausea and vomiting unresponsive to medical therapyOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Sophia Abdulhai and John Clark presented cardiac sympathectomy technique using clips and scissors for partial stellate ganglion resection, avoiding electrocautery to prevent Horner's syndromeOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Sympathectomy provides 100% compliance for arrhythmia management as patients cannot skip the intervention once performedOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Cardiac sympathectomy for CPVT (catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia) and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy involves high thoracoscopic approach to the lower stellate ganglion to prevent fatal arrhythmiasOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Gastric stimulation for pediatric gastroparesis can be tested temporarily via endoscopic placement before permanent laparoscopic or open implantationOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The benefits of sympathectomy is there is 100% compliance. Once they've had it, they can't not take their sympathectomy that dayOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The best mesh for ventral hernia repair is macroporous monofilament lightweight polypropylene synthetic mesh such as Marlex, which performs well in contaminated fields in retromuscular spaceOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Laparoscopic gastroesophageal disconnection can take 6 to 8 hoursOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Gastroesophageal disconnection may be appropriate as primary repair for high-risk patients predicted to fail fundoplicationOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Patients who took full feeds by mouth preoperatively can continue oral feeding after gastroesophageal disconnectionOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Diaphragm pacing requires intact phrenic nerve and motor neurons; diaphragm contraction with neurostimulation must be confirmed before implantationOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Ray Anders from University Hospitals of Cleveland demonstrated diaphragm pacing for spinal cord injury, transverse myelitis, acute flaccid myelitis, and brain stem tumors, with youngest implant at one year of ageOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Dave Carpata from Cleveland Clinic stated biologic mesh is not appropriate for bridging gaps in ventral hernia repair, only for temporary solution or reinforcementOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Retrorectus repair with mesh is superior to laparoscopic underlay for ventral hernia repairOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Posterior component separation has less wound morbidity than anterior component separation while providing space for wide mesh overlap and minimal fixationOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: David Lanning from Virginia Commonwealth presented gastroesophageal disconnection (esophageal division with Roux-en-Y jejunal interposition) for severe reflux after failed Nissen fundoplicationOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The best mesh to use is probably a macroporous monofilament, lightweight polypropylene synthetic mesh such as MarlexOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Stable solid organ injury patients can be admitted to the floor with vitals every 2-4 hours and hemoglobin at 6 hours, and discharged the next day if they never required blood transfusionOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Patients requiring 40 cc/kg blood (4 units) or with hemoglobin less than 7 after blood transfusion should go to the operating room as this indicates non-operative management failureOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Patients with only abdominal pain after trauma have approximately 5% risk of abdominal injury and nearly 0% chance of requiring interventionOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Patients with abnormal physical exam findings such as handlebar injury have approximately 15% chance of abdominal injuryOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The low-risk group (55% of trauma population) has less than 5% risk of any injury and less than 0.3% risk of injury requiring acute interventionOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Patients without abdominal wall trauma, tenderness or distention, with normal chest X-ray, no abdominal pain complaints, normal AST, and normal pancreatic enzymes probably do not need CT scan and can be sent homeOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Patients with solid organ injury who do not respond to 20 cc/kg crystalloid bolus should receive 10-20 cc/kg blood bolus rather than second crystalloid bolusOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The ATOMAC prospective multi-institutional solid organ injury protocol de-emphasizes injury grade in favor of clinical predictive factorsOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Sean Saint Peter's group demonstrated stable solid organ injury patients can be discharged much more quickly than traditional prolonged admissions based on injury gradeOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Chris Druck published a five-variable prediction rule identifying low-risk population for intra-abdominal injury after blunt trauma to guide CT scan decisionsOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The big magic number that David mentioned, was 4 units of blood or 40 ccs per kilo. If a patient is transfused with 40 ccs per kilo of blood or 4 units of blood, that is probably an indication of failureOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Eliminating oral contrast speeds up CT acquisition time and prevents nausea and vomiting in bowel obstruction patientsOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Modern pediatric hospital CT scans deliver 1-10 millisieverts of radiation, equivalent to one year of natural background radiation on EarthOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Mike Rubin from Akron Children's Hospital recommends chest CT for suspected airway foreign bodies in unclear cases, with nearly 100% sensitivity for detecting radiolucent and radiopaque foreign bodiesOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Unsuccessful intussusception reduction should be reattempted if there is movement to the ileocecal valve, with second attempts mostly successfulOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Oral contrast is unnecessary for suspected bowel obstruction CT scans as intraluminal fluid serves as adequate contrastOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: CT scan for suspected airway foreign body eliminates unnecessary bronchoscopies in children with respiratory virus symptomsOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The average range of a normal CT scan in a pediatric hospital is about 1 to 10 millisievers. So, a lot of times it's easy if you're getting a SCT that may be 1 or 2 or 3 millisiever, which is basically the same amount of radiation you get from being on the Earth for 1 year.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Dalton's pyloric stenosis resuscitation protocol: chloride less than 85 requires 3 fluid boluses, chloride less than 97 requires 2 boluses, chloride greater than 97 with bicarbonate less than 33 requires 1 bolusOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Glycopyrrolate achieved leak resolution in 76% of treatment group versus 29% of placebo group after TEF repairOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Richer's paper showed traumatic or non-traumatic pneumomediastinum requires only chest X-ray without further imagingOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Vella's randomized trial of 42 patients with post-TEF repair leaks showed glycopyrrolate group had 124 mL chest tube output versus 370 mL in placebo groupOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The Gips procedure for pilonidal disease involves trephine excision of pits, mosquito extraction of granulation tissue and hair, curettage with smaller trephine, and irrigation with saline then peroxideOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Pilonidal disease Gips procedure takes 3-5 minutes with no packing, no sutures, no drains, and no activity restrictions except avoiding swimming for 2 weeksOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Steven Rothenberg recommends thoracoscopic lobectomy scope placement anterior to scapula tip at mid-axillary line, not posterior, to avoid working in paradox during anterior fissure dissectionOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: For thoracoscopic lobectomy vessel division, seal proximally and distally separately, make test incision between seals to confirm hemostasis, then complete division rather than using seal-and-divide deviceOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Understanding segmental pulmonary anatomy allows prediction of vessel relationships to bronchus, such as superior segmental artery location above lower lobe bronchusOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Contralateral main stem intubation is the best and easiest technique for single lung ventilation during thoracoscopic lobectomy, superior to double lumen tube, bronchial blocker, or CO2 collapseOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Incomplete fissure during thoracoscopic lobectomy should be managed by layer-by-layer sealing like finger fracture technique until structures are identifiedOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: This is probably the biggest mistake that I see surgeons make when they're doing these procedures is they put their scope port posterior to the tip of the scapulaOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: I think a main stem innovation on the contralateral side is by far the best and easiest thing to do.Open
Top Ten Things to Remember: Update Course 2017
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Gastric stimulation reduces symptoms of gastroparesis in children with persistent nausea and vomiting unresponsive to medical therapy.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Temporary endoscopic gastric stimulation testing can predict response before permanent laparoscopic or open placement.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The youngest patient to receive diaphragm pacing was one year of age.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The benefits of sympathectomy is there is 100% compliance. Once they've had it, they can't not take their sympathectomy that day.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Diaphragm pacing is a reasonable option for children with spinal cord injury, transverse myelitis, acute flaccid myelitis, or brainstem tumors, allowing ventilator independence.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Partial resection of the stellate ganglion should use clips and scissors; electric cautery may damage the remaining ganglion and cause Horner's syndrome.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Sympathectomy provides 100% compliance because patients cannot skip the intervention once performed.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Thoracoscopic sympathectomy extending to the lower stellate ganglion can reduce ICD shocks in patients with CPVT and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: It is important to avoid the use of electric cautery on the stellate ganglion as it may damage the remaining portion of it and result in Horner's syndrome.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Diaphragm pacing requires an intact phrenic nerve and phrenic motor neurons; diaphragm contraction with neurostimulation must be confirmed before implantation.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Gastroesophageal disconnection may be appropriate as a primary repair in patients at high risk for fundoplication failure.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Gastroesophageal disconnection (esophageal division with Roux-en-Y jejunal interposition) is effective for children with severe reflux who have failed Nissen fundoplication.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Retrorectus repair is superior to laparoscopic underlay for ventral hernias.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The best mesh for ventral hernia repair is macroporous monofilament lightweight polypropylene synthetic mesh such as Marlex, which performs well in contaminated fields in the retromuscular space.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Laparoscopic gastroesophageal disconnection can take 6 to 8 hours.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Biologic mesh is not suitable for bridging gaps in ventral hernia repair; it is only a temporary solution or reinforcement.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Posterior component separation has less wound morbidity than anterior component separation while providing space for wide mesh overlap and minimal fixation.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Patients who were taking full feeds by mouth preoperatively can continue to do so after gastroesophageal disconnection.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The best mesh to use is probably a macroporous monofilament, lightweight polypropylene synthetic mesh such as Marlex, and that that actually has been shown to do well in contaminated fields in a retromuscular space.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Children with only abdominal pain after blunt trauma have approximately 5% risk of abdominal injury and less than 0.3% risk of requiring intervention.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The grade of solid organ injury is no longer the primary guide for management; clinical predictive factors are now used instead.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Stable solid organ injury patients should be admitted to the floor (not ICU) with vitals every 2–4 hours and hemoglobin at 6 hours; if hemoglobin remains above 7 and the patient is asymptomatic, they can be discharged.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Transfusion of 40 cc/kg blood (or 4 units) is an indication of non-operative management failure in solid organ injury; these patients should go to the operating room.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Patients with solid organ injury who respond to initial resuscitation and never require blood transfusion can be discharged the next day.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The low-risk group (55% of the trauma population) has less than 5% risk of any injury and less than 0.3% risk of injury requiring acute intervention; these patients may not need CT and can be observed or sent home with close follow-up.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The ATOMAC protocol recommends earlier blood transfusion: after 20 cc/kg crystalloid bolus, non-responders should receive 10–20 cc/kg blood rather than additional crystalloid.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: A five-variable prediction rule identifies children at low risk for intraabdominal injury after blunt trauma: no abdominal pain, normal abdominal exam, normal chest X-ray, normal AST, and normal pancreatic enzymes.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Children with abdominal wall trauma (e.g., handlebar injury) have approximately 15% risk of abdominal injury.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: For stable patients, you really don't need to be in the hospital for a long time. You can basically transfuse them so their hemoglobin is greater than 7, and when they stop bleeding, they can go home.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The big magic number that David mentioned was 4 units of blood or 40 ccs per kilo. If a patient is transfused with 40 ccs per kilo of blood or 4 units of blood, that is probably an indication of failure in someone who can probably not be managed non-operatively and should go to the operating room.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Omitting oral contrast speeds up CT acquisition and prevents nausea and vomiting in patients with bowel obstruction.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The average range of a normal CT scan in a pediatric hospital is about 1 to 10 millisieverts. So a lot of times it's easy if you're getting a chest CT that may be 1 or 2 or 3 millisievert, which is basically the same amount of radiation you get from being on the Earth for 1 year.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Volumetric chest CT has nearly 100% sensitivity for airway foreign body, including radiolucent objects.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Chest CT for suspected airway foreign body can eliminate unnecessary bronchoscopies in children with unclear history or respiratory virus symptoms.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Oral contrast is unnecessary for suspected bowel obstruction; fluid in the bowel serves as the contrast agent.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Modern pediatric CT scans deliver 1–10 millisieverts of radiation, equivalent to one year of background radiation on Earth.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: I think it should almost never be given for anything.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Repeat enema reduction attempts for intussusception are appropriate if there is movement of the intussusception toward the ileocecal valve.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Traumatic or non-traumatic pneumomediastinum requires only chest X-ray; no further imaging is needed.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: For pyloric stenosis resuscitation, if chloride is less than 85, give 3 boluses of fluid; if chloride is less than 97, give 2 boluses; if chloride is greater than 97 but bicarbonate is less than 33, give 1 bolus.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Glycopyrrolate treatment reduced chest tube output in post-TEF leak patients: 124 mL in the treatment group vs 370 mL in the placebo group.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Intravenous glycopyrrolate (Robinol) improves closure rates of post-TEF repair leaks: 76% in the treatment group vs 29% in the placebo group.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The Gips pilonidal procedure takes 3–5 minutes with minimal bleeding, no drains, no sutures, and no activity restrictions except avoiding swimming for two weeks.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The Gips technique for pilonidal disease involves coring out pits with a trephine, evacuating granulation tissue and hair with a mosquito, curettage with a smaller trephine, flushing with saline then hydrogen peroxide, and leaving the wounds open and unpacked.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: It's a cheap, quick procedure. Like I said, the cleft lifts, I'm worried about padding and pressure and with this they're lying down, they're awake.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: When sealing vessels during thoracoscopic lobectomy, seal proximally and distally, then make a small nick between the seals to confirm hemostasis before completing the division; do not use seal-and-divide devices.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Understanding segmental pulmonary anatomy helps predict vessel location and relationships during thoracoscopic lobectomy; for example, the superior segmental artery comes off the lower lobe with the bronchus directly below it.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Incomplete fissures should be approached layer-by-layer with a sealing device, similar to finger fracture technique in the liver, until structures are identified.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Placing the thoracoscope posterior to the scapula tip causes the surgeon to look back on themselves when working in the anterior fissure, creating a paradoxical view.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: For thoracoscopic lobectomy, the scope should be placed anterior to the scapula tip at the mid-axillary line, directly over the major fissure, not posterior to the scapula.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The biggest mistake that I see surgeons make when they're doing these procedures is they put their scope port posterior to the tip of the scapula, which is where we want to be if we're doing something like a thoracoscopic TEF or other posterior mediastinal structure.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Contralateral main-stem intubation is the best and easiest method for single-lung ventilation during thoracoscopic lobectomy, superior to double-lumen tubes, bronchial blockers, or CO2 collapse.Open
Top Ten Things to Remember: Update Course 2017
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Gastric stimulation reduces symptoms of gastroparesis in pediatric patients with persistent nausea and vomiting that does not respond to medical therapyOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Temporary gastric stimulating test can be performed endoscopically before permanent implantationOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: High thoracoscopic sympathectomy extending to the lower stellate ganglion can shut off arrhythmias in patients with CPVT and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy who have ICDsOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Partial resection of the stellate ganglion should be performed using clips and scissors, avoiding electric cautery to prevent Horner's syndromeOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The benefits of sympathectomy is there is 100% compliance. Once they've had it, they can't not take their sympathectomy that dayOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Sympathectomy provides 100% compliance as patients cannot skip the treatment once performedOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The youngest patient to receive diaphragm pacing implantation was one year of ageOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Diaphragm pacing can only be used if the phrenic nerve and phrenic motor neurons are intactOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Biologic mesh is not good for bridging a gap in abdominal wall reconstruction and is only a temporary solution or reinforcementOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The best mesh for abdominal wall reconstruction is macroporous monofilament lightweight polypropylene synthetic mesh such as Marlex, which performs well in contaminated fields in a retromuscular spaceOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Posterior component separation has less wound morbidity than anterior component separation while providing space for wide mesh overlap and minimal fixationOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Gastroesophageal disconnection may be appropriate as a primary upfront repair for patients at high risk for fundoplication failureOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Laparoscopic gastroesophageal disconnection can take 6 to 8 hours to completeOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Patients who were taking full feeds by mouth preoperatively can continue to do so after gastroesophageal disconnectionOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: A patient with only abdominal pain after blunt trauma has approximately 5% risk of abdominal injury and almost 0% chance of needing interventionOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: A child with abnormal physical exam findings such as handlebar injury has about 15% chance of abdominal injuryOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The low-risk group for abdominal trauma (55% of population) has less than 5% risk of any injury and less than 0.3% risk of injury requiring acute interventionOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Patients without abdominal wall trauma, tenderness or distention, normal chest X-ray, no abdominal pain complaints, normal AST, and no abnormal pancreatic enzymes probably do not need CT scan and can be sent homeOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The grade of solid organ injury is falling by the wayside in favor of clinical predictive factorsOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Patients who receive 20 cc/kg crystalloid and do not respond should receive 10-20 cc/kg bolus of bloodOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: If a patient's hemoglobin drops below 7 and they need further blood totaling 40 cc/kg, they probably need to go to the operating roomOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The big magic number that David mentioned was 4 units of blood or 40 ccs per kilo. If a patient is transfused with 40 ccs per kilo of blood or 4 units of blood, that is probably an indication of failure in someone who can probably not be managed non-operatively and should go to the operating room.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Transfusion with 40 cc/kg of blood or 4 units is an indication of failure of non-operative management and the patient should go to the operating roomOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Stable solid organ injury patients can be admitted to the floor with vitals every 2-4 hours and hemoglobin check at 6 hours, and can go home the next day if they never needed bloodOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Chest CT for suspected airway foreign body has nearly 100% sensitivity and can detect both radiolucent and radiopaque foreign bodiesOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Using chest CT for suspected airway foreign bodies will eliminate many unnecessary bronchoscopiesOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Oral contrast is not needed for suspected bowel obstruction as fluid serves as the contrast agentOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: I think it should almost never be given for anything.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Patients with unsuccessful intussusception reduction should get a repeat attempt as long as there is some movementOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The average range of radiation from a pediatric CT scan is 1-10 millisieverts, equivalent to living on Earth for one yearOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: For pyloric stenosis resuscitation: if chloride is less than 85, give 3 boluses of fluid; if less than 97, give 2 boluses; if greater than 97 but bicarbonate less than 33, give 1 bolusOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Patients with traumatic or non-traumatic pneumomediastinum probably do not need any imaging beyond chest X-rayOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: In a study of 42 TEF leak patients randomized to glycopyrrolate vs placebo, the treatment group had 124 mL chest tube output vs 370 mL in placebo, and 76% leak resolution vs 29% in placeboOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: The minimally invasive pilonidal procedure involves coring out pits with a trephine, removing granulation tissue and hair with a mosquito, curettage with a smaller trephine, and flushing with saline then hydrogen peroxide, leaving wounds unpacked and unsuturedOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: Contralateral main stem intubation is the best and easiest technique for single lung ventilation during thoracoscopic lobectomyOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: For incomplete fissure during lobectomy, use a sealing device to go layer by layer until structures are identifiedOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: For thoracoscopic lobectomy, the scope should be placed anterior to the tip of the scapula at the mid-axillary line, not posterior, to avoid working in paradoxOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing a resource: When sealing blood vessels during thoracoscopic lobectomy, use a sealer (not seal-divider) to seal proximally and distally, make a small nick between seals to verify complete sealing, then complete the cutOpen
Summaries Todd gave as host · Emerging Technologies in Healthcare Education2 summaries
2022 Pediatric Surgery Update Course - Top disruptive technologies in medicine
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Rami Shavan, who is an ENT who got a PhD in instructional technology, got his thesis in eSports, and he believes that adding competition to learning actually drastically improves your retentionOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Ramy Shaaban said: Rami Shaban believes that adding competition to learning drastically improves retention, based on his PhD thesis in eSportsOpen
Summaries Todd gave as host · Emerging Technologies in Healthcare Education2 summaries
2022 Pediatric Surgery Update Course - Top disruptive technologies in medicine
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Ramy Shaaban said: Rami Shaban believes that adding competition to learning drastically improves retention, based on his PhD thesis in eSportsOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Rami Shavan, who is an ENT who got a PhD in instructional technology, got his thesis in eSports, and he believes that adding competition to learning actually drastically improves your retentionOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: I think everybody agrees that This would be the standard uh initial evaluation for MIEAOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Length of stay is identical between TPA and VATS groups even though TPA numbers include intention-to-treat analysis with all failures who required subsequent VATSOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: A 5–10% apical pneumothorax in a minimally symptomatic patient should be observed with oxygen supplementationOpen
Summaries Todd gave as host · Enterocolitis16 summaries
Radiology and Image Diagnosis of Hirschsprung Disease
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: If it is clearly meconium ileus with reflux into terminal ileum and clinical improvement, some surgeons will not do rectal biopsy.Open
Outcomes and Complications in Hirschsprung Disease
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Many places still have clung to this idea that the way to assess a pull through specimen is to do a longitudinal strip of the length of the specimen and not look at the full circumference of the proximal margin.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Many institutions assess pull-through specimens using only a longitudinal strip rather than examining the full circumference of the proximal margin; the interface between ganglionic and aganglionic bowel can be irregular and project 2-4 cm longer along one part of the circumference.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: The interface between the ganglionic bowel and the a ganglion bowel can be very irregular and can project for 234 centimeters longer along one part of the circumference than the other.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: A survey of Canadian pediatric surgeons found nearly half resect 4 centimeters or less from the biopsy site, and about 10% resect right at the site of positive biopsy, creating high risk of pull-throughs in the transition zone.Open
Hirschsprung Disease: Cases and Complications
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: A survey of the Canadian Association of Pediatric Surgeons by Jack Langer found that nearly half of surgeons resect 4 cm or less from the biopsy site, and about 10% resect right at the site of positive biopsy, creating high risk for pull-throughs in the transition zone.Open
Hirschsprung Disease: Update Course 2013
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: A significant portion of fellows at a Washington DC course said they would get upper GI first in newborn with bilious emesis before contrast enemaOpen
Hirschsprung Disease: Update Course 2013
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: the baby's first enema should be a barium enemaOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Tissue diagnosis is mandatory before surgery for Hirschsprung disease; contrast enema alone is insufficientOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: In critically ill patients with enterocolitis, surgery may be necessary before pathology results are available (typically takes until Wednesday if specimen obtained Friday)Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: I've never seen really good results from in a 16 year oldOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Hypertrophic nerves should not be present in normal anal canal, even though ganglion cells are absent thereOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: In children over age 2-3 years, perform open rectal biopsy under general anesthesia rather than office suction biopsy due to patient cooperation issuesOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Manometry is reliable for diagnosing Hirschsprung in older children when biopsies may be unreliableOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: For enterocolitis 6 months post-pull-through with fever, distention, and diarrhea but no peritonitis, treat with IV fluids, broad-spectrum antibiotics, and rectal irrigationsOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Incidence of enterocolitis in children with trisomy 21 is double that of genetically normal children with Hirschsprung diseaseOpen
Summaries Todd gave as host · Esophageal Atresia35 summaries
Glycopyrrolate for Anastomtic Dehiscence in Esophageal Atresia
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Abdul Raoof Lamoshi said: The title of today's article is Role of Glycopyrolate in Healing of Anastomotic dehiscence after Primary Repair of esophageal atresia in a Low Resource setting, a randomized control study.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Abdul Raoof Lamoshi said: The study was a prospective randomized control trial studying the effect of glycopyrolate on patients that had leak after esophageal atresia repairOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Abdul Raoof Lamoshi said: There were 297 patients over a 10 year period that underwent esophageal atresia repairOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Abdul Raoof Lamoshi said: Of the 297 patients, there were 42 leaks, approximately 14%Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Abdul Raoof Lamoshi said: The 42 patients with leaks were prospectively randomized into two groups of 21 each, one receiving glycopyrrolate and the other receiving placebo (saline)Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Abdul Raoof Lamoshi said: The observer was blinded to which treatment group the patient was inOpen
Aerodigestive & Esophageal Surgery - The Unsalvageable Esophagus & Cases
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Absolutely amazing webinar, some amazing cases with excellent skills that you all brought today. I'm happy that you all are there for us when these cases get beyond the norm.Open
Glycopyrrolate for Anastomtic Dehiscence in Esophageal Atresia
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Abdul Raoof Lamoshi said: Of the 297 esophageal atresia repairs, there were 42 leaks, approximately 14%Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Abdul Raoof Lamoshi said: The study included 297 patients over a 10 year period that underwent esophageal atresia repairOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Abdul Raoof Lamoshi said: The observer was blinded to which treatment group the patient was inOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Abdul Raoof Lamoshi said: The 42 patients with leaks were prospectively randomized into two groups of 21 each, one receiving glycopyrrolate and the other receiving saline placeboOpen
Tracheoesophageal Fistula with Dr. Daniel von Allmen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Daniel von Allmen said: The 'spaghetti trick' described by Marcelo Martinez Ferro involves grabbing and twirling the proximal pouch tip to nicely demonstrate the dissection plane.Open
TEF Presentations (Extended): Aerodigestive & Esophageal Surgery
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: When they're dead, they're still not dead. They're still going. They got about 2 voltsOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Dead button batteries still have about 2 volts and continue to cause damage.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Button batteries can be distinguished from coins on AP X-ray by a visible rim, eliminating the need for a lateral view.Open
Introduction and Panel Discussion: EA & TEF
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Extrapleural approach may provide easier exposure because a single retractor can hold all three lung lobes out of the way.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: I think the biggest thing about an extra plural approach is I think it makes it a little bit easier to get the exposure because if you're going trans plural, then you have the lobes are separate and so it's hard to have one retractor that that will keep all three lobes out of your wayOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: In thoracoscopic repair, lung collapse eliminates the need for retraction, making the transpleural approach a non-issue.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Bronchoscopy before surgery is important to determine if a proximal fistula is present.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Bronchoscopy helps identify where the fistula inserts into the trachea, which is useful for surgical planning and fellow training.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Anastomotic strength is weakest at 5–7 days postoperatively, which coincides with typical extubation timing.Open
Journal of Pediatric Surgery Article Review: December 2021
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: The systematic review included 9 studies examining ERAS protocols after minimally invasive surgery (thoracoscopy, laparoscopy, or retroperitoneoscopy) in pediatric patients, searching literature back to 1975.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Dr. Holcomb stated that applying ERAS to minimally invasive surgery can achieve further reduction in postoperative discomfort and hospitalization beyond the benefits of minimally invasive surgery alone.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Dr. Holcomb stated there is limited recent literature comparing perioperative outcomes between open and thoracoscopic esophageal atresia repair, and a prospective randomized trial is unlikely.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: The slipping rib syndrome study represents one of the larger cohorts with long-term follow-up data, showing overall good outcomes with costal cartilage resection at 4.5-year follow-up.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: There is little literature about slipping rib syndrome, but it is fairly commonly seen by pediatric surgeons, and many may be unsure what it is or how to manage it.Open
Case Based Journal Review: Esophageal Atresia in 2022
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Jose Campos said: Giving acid suppression to neonates increases the risk of necrotizing enterocolitis according to neonatologists' concernsOpen
QUAD #1: Cervical Tracheopexy with Dr. Alessandro de Alarcon
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Alessandro de Alarcon said: Preoperative testing includes dynamic CT imaging, pulmonary function tests, microlaryngoscopy and bronchoscopy, and flexible bronchoscopy.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Alessandro de Alarcon said: The cervical approach can assist thoracoscopic procedures by removing residual or regrown large thymus tissue.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Alessandro de Alarcon said: In the lateral approach, the surgical team works on the side of the airway to find the esophagus.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Alessandro de Alarcon said: Pediatric surgeons identify the recurrent nerve for the ENT team to help prevent injury.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Alessandro de Alarcon said: The esophagus is mobilized above the level where the team aims to perform the pexy, making suture placement easier.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Alessandro de Alarcon said: A pulmonologist assists with flexible endoscopy through the endotracheal tube to visualize inside the trachea while stitches are placed.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Alessandro de Alarcon said: The combined approach is valuable for complicated cases or patients needing additional operations for symptom relief.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Alessandro de Alarcon said: Otolaryngology involvement is important both during the procedure and in follow-up due to potential complications.Open
Summaries Todd gave as host · Etiologies (Gastroschisis/NEC/Atresia/Volvulus)42 summaries
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: I think there's pretty good evidence now to show the things that we thought, you had to be really slow with going up on the feeds, that there's really no correlation with that and developing necrotizing enterocolitis.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Rate of feeding advancement does not correlate with development of necrotizing enterocolitis.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: 30% of those babies never need an operation.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: The Moss New England Journal trial showed no difference in outcomes between peritoneal drainage and laparotomy in extremely low birth weight infants with NEC, but the study population was heterogeneous.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Most panelists use 1 kg as the weight threshold above which they favor laparotomy over peritoneal drainage.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Primary anastomosis at initial NEC operation is rarely performed (8–10% of audience) due to inability to detect anastomotic leak in a sick neonate.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Miguel Guelfand presented his experience doing primary anastomosis at our necrotizing enterocolitis conference. It was pretty impressive his results.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Dr. Miguel Guelfand presented impressive results with primary anastomosis in NEC at a prior conference.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Stoma takedown is typically performed at 4–6 weeks postoperatively and 2 kg body weight, though recent data (Andrew Badillo) suggest earlier reversal may be safe.Open
Malrotation
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: In a published study combining experience with Kansas City, the cardiac risk group did not stratify out to be at higher risk for reflux complications; neurologically impaired CP kids maybe, but not cardiac kidsOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: what is the color of aspiration through the nos gastric tube? That is crucial. If that is green or slightly green, I think the patient needs, uh, you know, operations.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: I want to repeat, I want to repeat the contrast studies to diagnose malrotation because if you can go ahead and do the laparoscopy, but if you found If you find nothing, what would you do? That is a waste of time.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: the patient is gaining weight, correct? Patient's OK, this kid was throwing up. Yeah, so I, I, I don't do anything. Because the patient is fine, gaining weight and clinically well. Why do I have to operate?Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: aspiration of the energy tube is non bilious. So not dangerous.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Yama does not operate on asymptomatic malrotation as long as the patient has non-bilious vomiting, is gaining weight, and is clinically wellOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: If a patient has a narrow pedicle, the patient always has vomiting and is symptomaticOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Personally, personally, I don't think lap bands cause the valvulus. It can cause compression of the duoden, but that band itself is not risky. The risk is bilious vomiting and the narrowing of the pedicle. That needs operation.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Ladd's bands themselves are not risky; the risk is bilious vomiting and narrowing of the pedicleOpen
7th Annual Pediatric Surgery Update Course 2019 - FULL SHOW
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: This single teaching point made the whole update course worth it because he didn't realize this, and it totally changed his practice.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: I think the parents are more focused on the here and now. That is what's happening at that moment in the emergency room. Whereas we as their caregivers need to be thinking about what's best for the total life of the patient.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Parents surveyed for PCORI-funded study said if there was a 50% chance of non-operative appendicitis management being successful, they would enroll in the studyOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: In the APAC trial (adult study), at five years, 41% of the non-operative appendicitis group underwent an appendectomyOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: The important point in non-operative appendicitis management is not whether it's effective for six months or a year, but what happens 10, 20, or 40 years down the road regarding appendix scarring and future obstructionOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Enhanced recovery after surgery protocols have been great at reducing opioids both in the inpatient setting and at time of dischargeOpen
Necrotizing Enterocolitis with Dr. Gail Besner
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Gail Besner said: Recent Journal of Pediatric Surgery article showed substantial decrease in TPN use with mucous fistula refeeding.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Gail Besner said: Recent Journal of Pediatric Surgery article showed substantial decrease in TPN use with mucous fistula refeeding.Open
Umbilical Cord Defects with Dr. Kenneth Azarow
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Kenneth Azarow said: Emerging anesthesia data suggesting risks of operating before age 2–3 provides additional support for delaying umbilical hernia repair.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Kenneth Azarow said: A Canadian study by Dr. Baird's group showed that gastroschisis patients closed with sutures had higher rates of subsequent umbilical hernia repair compared to sutureless closure.Open
Abdominal Wall Defects with Dr. Jacob Langer
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Jack Langer said: The sutureless plastic closure technique was described by Anthony Sandler and doesn't require suturing the umbilical cordOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Jack Langer said: A study by Dr. Baird published in JPS showed that patients with flap closure did better in every way than those with sutured fascial closure, including lower rates of umbilical hernia repairOpen
Omphalocele and Gastroschisis With Dr. Foong-Yen Lim
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Fung Lim said: Gastroschisis affects approximately one in every 2,200 live births.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Fung Lim said: In the last four and a half years at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, majority of babies are managed using sutureless closure.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Fung Lim said: At Cincinnati Children's, Duoderm silo is placed on top of the skin of the patient, formed over the omphalocele, and plastic clips are used to sequentially clip it down until it's flush to the abdominal skin.Open
Update Course 2021: TOP PUBLICATIONS IN NON - PED SURG JOURNALS
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: The curation process filters approximately 1200 articles per month from 33 pediatric and general surgical journals plus 3 top clinical journals (NEJM, Lancet, JAMA) down to 25-50 relevant pediatric surgery articles, then further narrows to 10-15 through specialty filtering, quality ranking, methodology assessment, and popularity polling among general surgeons.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: In the Annals of Surgery 5-year follow-up study of non-operative appendicitis management, 46% of patients randomized to non-surgical management required appendectomy during follow-up, while the surgical group had no complications or readmissions.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Half of the non-surgical appendicitis management group presented to the emergency room during 5-year follow-up.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: In the Journal of Trauma study of 135 children aged 1-17 years who received whole blood as adjunct to component therapy, matched to 270 children receiving only component therapy, the whole blood group had decreased transfusion volume at 24 hours and required fewer ventilation days, though mortality, length of stay, and major complications were the same.Open
Update Course 2021: UPDATE COURSE 2020: REVIEW OF LAST YEAR'S IMPORTANT T OPICS
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Deflux, a compound used by urology for vesicoureteral reflux, has been reported in case reports for rectal prolapse sclerotherapy.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: There are case reports showing mucosal sloughing with phenol sclerotherapy.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: I think there's also case reports that show mucosal sloughing with phenol.Open
Update Course 2022 - UPDATES IN GASTROSCHISIS FEEDING PROTOCOLS - Jason Fraser, Beth Rymeski, and Steven Lee
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: we got feedback that several hospitals have changed their gastro schesis protocols based on recent publicationsOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Several hospitals have changed their gastroschisis protocols based on recent publications.Open
Summaries Todd gave as host · Fetal Surgery28 summaries
Urologic Fetal Intervention: Cincinnati Fetal Center
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: I think that the challenge is that the data suggests that if you look at the results from the Pluto trial, that renal function is poor in a large number of babies that were thought to be good prognosis.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: We're not really able to necessarily fix or alter the renal outcomes and so that's really why we're not fighting as much as probably expected.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: The Pluto trial removed bladder taps from its protocol because data suggested the most powerful effect of shunting is in poor-prognosis fetuses, and even good-prognosis fetuses have ~50% risk of bad renal function postnatally.Open
Pediatric Hernia: Update Course 2013
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: I also thought that I, I also thought, you know, we could Wait, they don't necessarily need to be repaired right away. But then I read your papers about the very high incidence of incarceration in the first few months of life, especially in the preemies.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Jack Langer's data shows very high incarceration rate in newborns and preemies with inguinal herniasOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: If you have a patent processus vaginalis, you have 4 times greater risk than general population of developing a hernia on that sideOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: VA cooperative study in adults showed 1.7% incidence of incarceration in adults with inguinal herniaOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Mayo Clinic 50-year follow-up study shows most common cause of recurrence after open pediatric inguinal hernia repair is a direct herniaOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: just so you know, has a 30% incidence of chronic pain that's been validated in multiple studies.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Mesh inguinal hernia repair has 30% incidence of chronic pain, validated in multiple studiesOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Felix Schier's laparoscopic Z-stitch technique has about 6% recurrence rateOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: SEAL technique (Craig Albanese, Mike Harrison, Sanjeev Dutta at Stanford) reports 1.2% recurrence rate, but other centers using it report 3-4%Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: CK Young's extraperitoneal percutaneous technique has less than 1% recurrence (unpublished data)Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Studies show decreased sperm quality in patients who had bilateral inguinal hernia repairs, but infertility rate did not appear different in most studiesOpen
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Studies show decreased sperm quality in patients who had bilateral inguinal hernia repairs, but infertility rate did not appear different in most studiesOpen
Fetoscopic endoluminal tracheal occlusion and twin-twin transfusion: Fetal...
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Amnio-reduction in severe polyhydramnios improves fetal hypoxia and reverses acidemia by decreasing amniotic fluid pressure, which reduces placental compression and improves blood flow.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Huber's 2006 study of over 200 laser cases showed 84% survival of at least one twin, 60% both-twin survival, and average delivery at 34 weeks, compared to 29 weeks with amnio-reduction.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: High-volume laser centers achieve 93-94% survival of at least one twin, 88% overall survival, 78% both-twin survival, with average delivery at 34 weeks.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Major and minor neurologic deficits occur in 55% after amnio-reduction versus less than half that rate after laser, with most recent studies showing 5-6% major neurodevelopmental delays and 7-8% minor delays after laser.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Eduardo Gratacos said: Eduardo Gratacos classified selective IUGR into three types: Type 1 with positive end-diastolic flow (good prognosis), Type 2 with persistent absent/reversed flow (progressive deterioration), and Type 3 with intermittent cycling (unpredictable with high IUFD and 20% PVL risk in normal twin).Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Type 3 sIUGR fetuses have the smallest placental share and characteristic very large arterio-arterial anastomoses that cause episodic acute fetal-to-fetal transfusions.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: With purely expectant management of Type 2 sIUGR, there is 48% loss in the smaller twin and 33% in the normal twin, with only 37% intact survival in the smaller twin.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Type 3 sIUGR with expectant management shows 38.5% intact survival in the normal twin and 60% in surviving smaller twins, with very high morbidity and mortality in both groups.Open
Fetal Surgical Intervention for Myelomeningocele: Fetal Surgery 2012
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizes what Dr. Scott Adzik said: There have been three maternal deaths associated with open fetal surgery for MMC in South America (one in Colombia, two in Argentina).Open
Update Course 2021: TOP PUBLICATIONS IN NON - PED SURG JOURNALS
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: The curation process filters approximately 1200 articles per month from 33 pediatric and general surgical journals plus 3 top clinical journals (NEJM, Lancet, JAMA) down to 25-50 relevant pediatric surgery articles, then further narrows to 10-15 through specialty filtering, quality ranking, methodology assessment, and popularity polling among general surgeons.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: In the Annals of Surgery 5-year follow-up study of non-operative appendicitis management, 46% of patients randomized to non-surgical management required appendectomy during follow-up, while the surgical group had no complications or readmissions.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: Half of the non-surgical appendicitis management group presented to the emergency room during 5-year follow-up.Open
Host summaryTodd Ponsky summarizing the discussion: In the Journal of Trauma study of 135 children aged 1-17 years who received whole blood as adjunct to component therapy, matched to 270 children receiving only component therapy, the whole blood group had decreased transfusion volume at 24 hours and required fewer ventilation days, though mortality, length of stay, and major complications were the same.Open