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Emerging Technologies in Healthcare Education
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Immersive & Virtual Technologies2 items
What is Metaverse? - Transforming Healthcare, Episode 1
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We are starting a new video series: "Transforming Healthcare". Here is our first video explaining a new technology that we believe will transform healthcare. Metaverse… Here’s what you need to know in a nutshell! Hosts: Em Tombash, MD, Todd
video · Jun 2022
Digital Twinning - Transforming Healthcare, Episode 2, Part 1
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We’re back with another new technology that we believe will transform healthcare. Digital twin… Here’s what you need to know in a nutshell! A digital twin is a virtual representation of an object or system that is updated from real-time dat
video · Jun 2022
Physical-Digital Integration1 item
3D Printing - Transforming Healthcare, Episode 3, Part 1
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We’re back with another new technology that we believe will transform healthcare. 3D Printing… Here’s what you need to know in a nutshell! Host: Em Tombash, MD, Todd Ponsky, MD & Ramy Shaaban, MD Don't forget to like and subscribe to see mo
video · Jun 2022
Adding a column in ChatGPT output to explain screening decisions provides better understanding of the data and produces excellent results — Ramy Shaaban, 2025 Pediatric Surgery Update Course: Top 10 Key Takeaways #9 · 0:45
Core Concepts2 items
Artificial Intelligence - Transforming Healthcare, Episode 7, Part 1
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We’re back with another new technology that we believe will transform healthcare. Artificial intelligence… Here’s what you need to know in a nutshell!
Hosts: Em Tombash, MD, Todd Ponsky, MD, Ramy Shaaban MD, PhD
Artificial intelligenc
video · Sep 2022
Machine Learning - Transforming Healthcare, Episode 8 Part 1
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We’re back with another new technology that we believe will transform healthcare. Machine learning… Here’s what you need to know in a nutshell!
Hosts: Em Tombash, MD, Todd Ponsky, MD, Ramy Shaaban MD, PhD
Machine learning is a subfiel
video · Sep 2022
Clinical Applications2 items
Dr. Ramy Shaaban - Best of the Best in Pediatric Surgery 2025
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Watch IPEG's Dr. Ramy Shaaban’s presentation on “Embracing the future: the impact and integration of AI, ML, and LLMS in modern healthcare” at the 2025 Best of the Best in Pediatric Surgery event!
Moderators: Drs. Todd Ponsky, Dan von Al
video9:23 · Mar 2025
Protocol for a global electronic Delphi on integrating artificial intelligence into solid organ transplantation
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly recognized as a transformative force in the field of solid organ transplantation. From enhancing donor-recipient matching to predicting clinical risks and tailoring immunosuppressive therapy, AI
article · Jul 2026
Practical AI Tools2 items
2024 Update Course - Top AI Tools of 2024 - Em Gootee, Ramy Shaaban, Carlos Colunga, & Todd Ponsky
video23:58 · Aug 2024Private
2025 Pediatric Surgery Update Course: Top 10 Key Takeaways #9
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In this highlight from the 12th Annual Update Course in Pediatric Surgery, Drs. Ramy Shaaban and Carlos Colunga explore the top AI tools of 2024 and their potential to transform research, training, and clinical workflows.
Key Highlights:
video2:14 · Jul 2026
Overlaying CT scans during surgery to visualize tumor anatomy with on/off capability is an upcoming augmented reality application for surgeons — Todd Ponsky, 2022 Pediatric Surgery Update Course - Top disruptive technologies in medicine · 12:38
Comprehensive Overviews3 items
Update Course 2022 - TOP DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN MEDICINE - Ramy Shaaban and Em Tombash
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In this session, Drs. Ramy Shaaban and Em Tombash guide us through the most disruptive technologies of the last year. What innovations are going on in the world? They explain each one. An amazing trip on what is coming and how the future ma
video · Sep 2022
2022 Pediatric Surgery Update Course - Top disruptive technologies in medicine
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In this session, Drs. Ramy Shaaban and Em Tombash guide us through the most disruptive technologies of the last year. What innovations are going on in the world? They explain each one. An amazing trip on what is coming and how the future ma
video26:52 · Jul 2026
Update Course 2023 - Top Disruptive Technologies in Healthcare
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This session is on the top disruptive techologies in healthcare with Drs. Em Gootee & Ramy Shaaban.
The 11th Annual Pediatric Surgery Update Course was held on August 29, 2023 in Cleveland, Ohio and was livestreamed to a global audien
video · Oct 2023
Key Takeaways & Highlights1 item
Update Course Rewind: 2024 Top Ten Key Takeaways
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Join us for a highlight reel of the Top 10 Key Takeaways from the 12th Annual Update Course in Pediatric Surgery. This session covers the latest advances, practical tools, and emerging trends that are shaping the future of pediatric surgica
video18:01 · Jun 2025
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Update Course Rewind: 2024 Top Ten Key Takeaways
At Cincinnati Children's, interventional radiologists teach pediatric surgery fellows how to use ultrasound guidance for vascular access.
You don't have to have a hybrid OR to do image-guided surgery collaboration; it can occur in a regular OR by bringing in an ultrasound machine.
Cone beam CT is performed on a C-arm fluoroscopy unit that rotates around the patient collecting multiple images which are stacked together to create a CT.
ChatGPT can screen thousands of articles in systematic reviews by analyzing Excel sheets and screening included articles based on title and abstract.
In cryoanalgesia for pectus procedures, a double lumen endotracheal tube is used in all patients to deflate the lung on the side of cryoablation.
Cryoanalgesia targets nerves from T3 to T8 with a 2-minute freeze cycle starting at the third rib and working down.
Subpleural injection with 0.25% marcaine with epinephrine works immediately, as opposed to the 8 to 10 hour delay with cryo nerve block.
Cryoanalgesia blocks fail when surgeons use a single lumen tube and perform the block too far anteriorly.
The SER Protocol from Michigan used prenatal criteria to guide decisions on offering ECMO versus comfort care for severe unilateral CDH, and outcomes showed survival was equivalent between groups.
Every unilateral isolated CDH should be pursued with ECMO if there was good prenatal counseling with the parents.
With bivalrudin, you can operate after 8 hours of putting patients on ECMO as long as levels are stable, and it's a much easier surgical repair.
Early repair while on ECMO is safe and can offer physiological benefits, with the optimal window between 8 to 24 hours.
CO2 laser emits infrared light in the spectrum of 920 to 1400 nanometers, which is well absorbed by water.
In 56 circumcision cases using CO2 laser with the sleeve technique, dorsal slit, and cyanoacrylate adhesive, the complication rate was only 3%.
CO2 laser was used for frenulectomy in 47 patients with low pain profile and no suture required.
Autofluorescence has shown to reduce rates of hypoparathyroidism and hypocalcemia following thyroidectomy in a randomized controlled trial from France.
With autofluorescence, parathyroids naturally autofluoresce at a specific wavelength without injecting anything.
Hypocalcemia rates were about 50% lower with autofluorescence use versus not using it.
A surgery-first pathway for pediatric biliary stones reduces resource utilization, including MRCP, according to recently published work.
With ERCP, you're going to get pancreatitis 10% of the time no matter how good you are.
With a surgery-first mindset, stone clearance rate reflected by negative intraoperative cholangiogram was 86%.
If you just did flushing or got the catheter a little more into the common bile duct or reamed the sphincter, the success rate was in the 90s.
MMP-7 was identified about 10 years ago by Georgia Bezarra as a diagnostic biomarker for biliary atresia.
Data from a recent Midwest study shows that every 10-day delay in biliary atresia treatment worsens outcomes by 20%.
MMP-7 is not a validated biomarker for biliary atresia; it's not perfect, and the sensitivity is pretty good, but cutoffs vary because the assay is still evolving.
The institutional commitment is to perform Kasai procedure within 7 days of patients showing up if they have biliary atresia.
REBOA can be used in children if you have it at your center and you're good at it, though it's not done a lot in pediatric hospitals.
REBOA seems to take longer than opening the abdomen or chest if you're just needing to cross-clamp the aorta.
Patients presenting with wounds as their initial presentation for pilonidal disease tend to not always get to the finish line fully healed with a minimally invasive approach.
John Armstrong, while serving in the US Army, ran a clinic where patients were shaved weekly, and they observed a dramatic improvement, significantly reducing the need for surgical intervention in pilonidal disease.