February’s release brings us a diverse mix of new content to AccessSurgery, including:

Text Update to Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery

• Laparoscopic Approach to Giant Paraesophageal Hernia — update to Chapter 24 by Swee H. Teh, MD and John G. Hunter, MD

Editor’s Journal Review

• Review of Annals of Surgery article Operative strategies for diverticular peritonitis: A decision analysis between primary resection and anastomosis versus Hartmann’s procedures from Seymour I. Schwartz, MD

Animation

• Loop Ileostomy

Surgical Video

• Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG)

On the functionality front, we’ve added a 50-question limit per test to the self-assessment. This will prevent the errors that users have been experiencing with larger question sets. Right now the 50 questions are still randomized from the full pool. In the future, we will break them out into unique sets of 50, so that you can easily and systematically work through all questions on the site.

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