Happy New Year to all! We have some great new items on the site for the December release of AccessSurgery.

Dana K. Andersen, MD has submitted an Editor’s Journal Review of the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery article, “Management of pain in small duct chronic pancreatitis.”

We have a new animation adapted from Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations, a Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy.

We also have two new surgical videos. The Choledochojejunostomy & Gastrojejunostomy are both components of a Whipple operation, or Pancreaticoduodenectomy.

As always, your comments & suggestions are more than welcome. Just drop us an email.

Hank - that is a very interesting set up you describe at your institution.  Might that situation  however,  further emphasize the consolidation of control that CV medicine  continues to  perpetuate over related surgical disciplines rendering them  relatively functionless without the medicine referrals to keep them afloat?

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We have a great new release for November. First and foremost, we’re very proud to include Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery: Self-Assessment and Board Review on AccessSurgery. With this change, we’ve also mapped our Board Review to the core curriculum structure. Just select a topic and a number of questions, and you’ll receive related questions from both Surgery Review Illustrated and Schwartz’s Self-Assessment and Board Review.

The eighth edition of Schwartz’s Self-Assessment and Board Review published this November with over 1400 questions and scenarios for both oral and written boards. New chapters include:

• Surgical Management of Obesity
• Soft Tissue Scarcoma
• Cell, Genomics, and Molecular Surgery
• Patient Safety, Errors and Complications in Surgery
• Surgical Considerations in the Elderly
• Anesthesia

As always, you can track how many tests you’ve taken, view your last score, and email your results on a given test. Please let us know how you like the revamped Board Review section. Your comments are extremely welcome.

We’ve also added new videos, animations, and journal reviews from the editors of Schwartz:

• VIDEO: Laparoscopic Pyloromyotomy
• ANIMATION: Tracheotomy, both Emergency & Elective
• ANIMATION: Anterior Resection, Stapled
• EDITOR’S JOURNAL REVIEW: Dr. Schwartz’s review of Hepatic resection for noncolorectal nonendocrine liver metastases: Analysis of 1452 patients and development of a prognostic model.
• EDITOR’S JOURNAL REVIEW: Dr. Billiar’s review of Whole body imaging in blunt multisystem trauma patients without obvious signs of injury.

Last but not least, we’ve added tracking of individual video usage by institution. Administrators can simply log in to their account to see which videos have been viewed and how often. Please note that since we broke out the video stats, they are not included in the page traffic. So add the two numbers together for total site usage.

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At present, Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery comprise the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at our hospital. Cardiology is not part of the department of medicine and Cardiac Surgery is not part of the Department of Surgery. Vascular Surgery has crossover privileges in Cardiovascular Medicine, but belongs to surgery. However, the vascular surgeons have significant interest in moving entirely to Cardiovascular medicine. This is because we are building endovascular ORs, combination interventional suites and ORs. Radiology has protected its “turf”, so CV Medicine is building around it. Clearly different institutions will handle endovascular procedures differently.