The Clinical Congress Daily Highlights is your go-to source for key session recaps. The Daily Highlights enhances the educational program of Clinical Congress by providing recaps of cutting-edge sessions and video interviews Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Check your inbox twice daily and follow online using #ACSCC19 and #ACSHighlights.
Wednesday, Second Edition
Studies Look to Understand Surgeon and Resident Burnout
Geriatric Trauma for the General Surgeon
Should More Obese Patients with End Stage Renal Disease Be Offered Bariatric Surgery?
Fragile States Require High Surgical Capacity in Trauma and Obstetrics
Progress Will Come with Better Understanding of Pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatic Cancer Sees Advances from All Sides
Kids Can Go Without Opioids after Appendectomies
Wednesday, Second Edition Video Interviews
Civilian Concealed Carry Legislation and Unintentional Firearm Mortality in the United States: 1986-2015
Non-Bariatric Surgery in the Morbidly Obese Patient
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Protocol Reduces Narcotic Requirement and Length of Stay in Patients Undergoing Mastectomy with Implant-Based Reconstruction
ACS Clinical Congress 2019; Celebrating and Tackling Challenges of the Surgical Life
Wednesday, First Edition
Military-Civilian Partnerships Enhance Readiness for Mass Casualty Events
Nonoperative Management of Abdominal Gunshot Wounds is on the Rise
Rescue Stent Outperforms REBOA in Animal Tests
General Surgeons Match Thoracic Surgeons in Esophagectomy Outcomes
Immunotherapy Creates New Opportunities and Considerations for Surgical Treatment
General Surgery Needs Some Love
Wednesday, First Edition Video Interviews
Panel Reviews Impact of Microbiome Manipulation to Improve Outcomes Following Cancer Surgery
Surveillance Colonoscopy in Patients 80 Years and Older: Safe with a High Diagnostic Yield
Acute Appendicitis: Risks of Perforation, Post-Op Complication Rise with Delays to Surgery
The Waiting Game: How Long are Breast Cancer Patients Waiting for Definitive Diagnosis and Treatment?
Refining the ACS NSQIP Surgical Risk Calculator to Include Geriatric Outcomes
Gallbladder Wall Thickness as a Predictor of Intraoperative Adverse Events in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomies
Tuesday, Second Edition
Artificial Intelligence is Coming Fast. Are Surgeons Ready?
How to Make Sense of Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer
On the Prevention, Detection, and Evaluation of Anastomotic Leaks
Pediatric Trauma: Brain Injury, Simulations, Penetrating Trauma and Transfusions
Interval Appendectomy Increases Odds of Cancer Diagnosis
Higher Volume May Produce Lower Cost
Avoid Surgeon Burnout with Lifestyle Modification
Tuesday, Second Edition Video Interviews
There’s an app for that: How technology is reshaping pre- and postoperative outpatient surgery
Lung transplant candidates receiving older donor lungs have similar survival outcome
Anastomotic leak rate doubled in presence of Clostridium difficile infection after colectomy
Choosing Wisely® campaign against low-value breast cancer care achieves mixed results
Pediatric Trauma: What’s New and Improved?
Tuesday, First Edition
Should Patients Lose Weight Before Undergoing Bariatric Surgery?
Resident Satisfaction Rises with Flexible Duty-Hours
Firearm Injury Prevention Survey Finds Common Ground among ACS Members
High Maintenance Required for Persistently Leaky Gastric Sleeves
How to Make Hemodialysis Access Last, and What to Do When it Doesn’t
Harmful if Swallowed: The Persistent Danger of Button Batteries and Small Magnets
Tuesday, First Edition Video Interviews
Primary tumor resection linked to longer survival in patients with distant thyroid cancer metastasis
Current hospital credentialing requirements for robotic surgery show minimal follow-up
Helicopter trauma transport falls nearly 40% from 2010-216; Comparative mortality varies by scene and Transport from Scene or Hospital Matters
Monday, Second Edition
The Long Road to Consensus on Antibiotics for Appendicitis
Frailty Index Assesses Risk, But More Evidence Needed on How to Reduce It
Answers to Questions about Acute Gallbladder
How Can Surgeons Capitalize on Personalized and Precision Medicine in Oncology?
Bariatric Surgery: Are Robots Helpful?
Analysis Finds Large Regional Discrepancies in Colectomy for Benign Polyps
Two Drugs Better Than One in Biomaterial-Based Neuroblastoma Treatment
Monday, Second Edition Video Interviews
Obese heart failure patients show improved left ventricular ejection fraction following bariatric surgery
8.2% 30-day readmission rate found for non-elective, emergency general surgery; Intestinal blockage leading diagnosis at readmission
Panel tackles preventing incisional hernias: Do we need mesh or better surgical skills?
Panel surveys impact of telemedicine, telehealth and telemonitoring on surgical practice
Monday, First Edition
Liquid Biopsy: Current Reality and Future Prospects
Widespread Implementation of Enhanced Recovery Pathways Improves Colorectal Surgery Outcomes
Robotic Surgery Fails to Show Benefit in Hernia Repair Trial
Diverticulitis is Diverse, and the Treatments Should Be Too
Nine Mortals: Covering the Health of the Supreme Court
Innovation Has Made Surgery Less Invasive
In Traumatic Brain Injury, Volume Does Not Translate Into Better Outcomes
Monday, First Edition Video Interviews
“Significant drawbacks” found for laparoscopic peritoneal lavage vs. sigmoidectomy in pelvic abscess and purulent peritonitis patients
Assessment finds general surgeons lag orthopaedists in clinical readiness for military deployment
Risk and readmission models fail to predict 90-day utilization in major bowel surgery; Need cited for better tools underlying value-based payment models
One in four general surgeons considering exit from surgery within next two years
Justified homicide rates found “significantly” higher in Stand Your Ground law states