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🏥 Surgeon + Trauma Medical Director @dukemedicine via @UThealthsurg @UmichSurgery @PennMedicine 🎧 @BehindTheKnife co-director & host 🙌🏼Dad of 2
Raleigh, NC app.behindtheknife.org Joined July 2009
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Something we think about a lot
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What happens when the ANSWER arrives before the QUESTION?

Rapid proliferation of medical AI - especially when built into the EMR - challenges surgical education.

We think about this everyday and are working extremely hard to build thoughtful, human-first, AI- conscious surgical education content that focuses on trust and surgeon judgement.
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AS SURGICAL EDUCATORS, THIS IS THE QUESTION OF OUR TIME
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What happens when the ANSWER arrives before the QUESTION?

Rapid proliferation of medical AI - especially when built into the EMR - challenges surgical education.

We think about this everyday and are working extremely hard to build thoughtful, human-first, AI- conscious surgical education content that focuses on trust and surgeon judgement.
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"The goal today is not talk you out of using topical hemostatic agents, it's to make reaching for one a decision and not a reflex."
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Demystifying Topical Hemostatic Agents: A Mental Model for Surgeons

The scrub tech holds up two boxes, “SURGICEL or EVARREST?”, and you realize nobody ever taught you the difference! Today @georgoff @Kniery_Bird @mcclellanjm @nickteman break down topical hemostatic agents, one of the most used and least taught tools in the OR. You’ll get a simple two-question model for picking the right product: can your patient make their own clot, and can a patch reach the bleeding? Through trauma, vascular, and cardiac cases, the team covers when these agents earn their keep and when two minutes of pressure (no peeking!) will do the job. Bottom line: hemostatic agents speed up hemostasis, but they’re a targeted adjunct to good surgical technique, not a substitute for it.

🎧 📺 behindtheknife.org/podcast/demyst…
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Great work from @EAST_TRAUMA lit review committee.

This month's lit review has got me thinking about initial use of water seal in patients with traumatic pneumothorax without hemothorax. Any thoughts on this?

The SEAL IT trial challenges the idea that all chest tubes should be placed to suction in traumatic pneumothoraces. 🫁 Researchers found that just one minute of suction followed by an immediate water seal safely reduced total chest tube duration by 16 hours. ⏱️ While hospital length of stay remained unchanged, complication rates did not increase even if a few patients required a brief return to suction. 📉

Review ➡️ east.org/education-reso…
www.east.org October 2026 - Trauma