Enhance Your Knowledge with Online General Surgery CME

Comprehensive Review of General Surgery provides guidance for preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative management, as well as management of complications. Led by Pardon R. Kenney, MD, clinically-skilled speakers offer direction in selecting operative techniques, outlining the advantages and disadvantages of both open and minimally invasive surgery.

Lectures in this continuing medical education board review cover a broad range of surgical areas (vascular, breast, abdominal, alimentary tract, trauma, etc.) and reinforce important take-home points, including:

• Critical Care. Operative necrosectomy should be the last procedure offered to a patient with necrotizing pancreatitis. Exhaust all other options (percutaneous drainage, endoscopic drainage,  video-assisted retroperitoneal debridement) before offering open pancreatic necrosectomy.
• Ethics. Palliative care is not restricted to care at the end of life or for the imminently dying. It’s an focused on improving quality of life that’s appropriate at any stage of serious illness.
• Gynecologic Challenges. Unlike most general surgical procedures, gynecologic surgeries often require fertility considerations before determining the best course of action.
• Tumor Biology. Solid tumors are associated with mutations in proto-oncogenes and tumor suppressors. These mutations disrupt known signaling pathways that are required for normal cellular and immune homeostasis, and often promote a more aggressive tumor behavior. These genetic mutations may be useful therapeutic targets.
• And more!

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Topics/Speakers

APPLIED SCIENCE

Surgical Infection – Roger Clark, DO

Fluids, Electrolytes, and Acid-base Disorders – Reza Askari, MD

Transfusion Medicine and Anticoagulant Management – Nathan T. Connell, MD

Concepts in Anesthesia – David Shaff, MD

Perioperative Care – James G. Vogel, MD

Head and Neck Evaluation – Rosh Sethi, MD, MPH

Thoracic Surgery for General Surgeons – Jon O. Wee, MD

Surgical Critical Care – Mohammad Afrasiabi, MD

Ethics – Zara Cooper, MD, MSc

Transplantation – Stefan Tullius, MD, PhD

Pediatric Surgery – Prathima Nandivada, MD

VASCULAR

Arterial Disease – Matthew Menard, MD

Venous Disease – Louis L. Nguyen, MD

Vascular Access – Mohamad Hussain, MD

SURGICAL SPECIALTIES

Plastic Surgery – Matthew Carty, MD

Gynecologic Challenges for General Surgeons – James A. Greenberg, MD

Genitourinary Surgery – Michael J. Malone, MD

SKIN AND SOFT TISSUE

Tumor Biology – Charles H. Yoon, MD

Soft Tissue Sarcoma – Chandrajit P. Raut, MD

Melanoma and Dysplastic Nevi – Charles H. Yoon, MD

ENDOCRINE

Adrenal Surgery and Endocrine Dysfunction – Matthew Nehs, MD

Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery – Nancy L. Cho, MD

BREAST

Benign Breast Disease – Anna Weiss, MD

Malignant Breast Disease – Laura Dominci, MD

Paget’s Disease and Male Breast Cancer: Surgical Techniques – Faina Nakhlis, MD

ABDOMINAL – GENERAL

General Abdominal Surgery – Luise Pernar, MD

ABDOMINAL – HERNIA

Abdominal Hernias – Incidence, Cause, and Treatment – David C. Brooks, MD

Incisional Hernia – Douglas Smink, MD

ABDOMINAL – BILIARY

Benign Gallbladder Disease – Ashley H. Vernon, MD

Common Duct Diseases – Thomas C. Tsai, MD

ABDOMINAL – LIVER

Primary and Secondary Liver Neoplasms – Thomas E. Clancy, MD

ABDOMINAL – PANCREAS

Pancreatic Neoplasms – Mark Fairweather, MD

Inflammatory Pancreatic Disease – Stanley Ashley, MD

ABDOMINAL – SPLEEN

Spleen Surgery (Non-Trauma) – Ali Tavakkoli, MB,BS

ALIMENTARY TRACT – ESOPHAGUS

Benign and Malignant Neoplasms of the Esophagus – M. Blair Marshall, MD

Diseases of Gastroesophageal Junction – David Spector, MD

ALIMENTARY TRACT – STOMACH

Gastric Cancer Treatment – Jiping Wang, PhD, MD

Bariatric Surgery and Peptic Ulcer Disease – Scott A. Shikora, MD

ALIMENTARY TRACT – SMALL BOWEL

Small Bowel: Management Challenges – Jason Gold, MD

Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Joel E. Goldberg, MD

LARGE INTESTINE

Emergencies of the Large Intestine – James Yoo, MD

Colon Neoplasms – Jennifer L. Irani, MD

Management of Rectal and Anal Cancer and Dysplasia – Nelya Melnitchouk, MD

ANORECTAL

Anal Fissure and Fistula – Ronald Bleday, MD

TRAUMA/ACUTE CARE SURGERY

Initial Assessment in Trauma and Acute Care Surgery – Kristin Sonderman, MD

Thoracic Trauma – Geoffrey Anderson, MD

Abdominal Trauma – Nakul Raykar, MD

Management of >20% TBSA Burns – The First 24 Hours – Stephanie Nitzschke, MD

Top 6 Surgical Gastrointestinal Emergencies – Reza Askari, MD