Today we’re going to talk about obtaining informed consent from patients. It’s a situation that most clinicians, especially junior residents, find themselves in on a daily basis. This episode should serve as a good basic review of the informed consent process and the components that should be included in your discussion with patients.

Additional resources for informed consent can be found here:

Dr. Schwarze's best case/worst case tool: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnS3K44sbu0

https://patientpreferences.org/best-case-worst-case/

Behind the knife podcast discussions on best case/worst case:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/best-case-worst-case-tool-scenario-planning-dr-gretchen/id980990143?i=1000526751084

Further Reading on Informed Consent: https://www.journalacs.org/article/S1072-7515(08)01724-9/fulltext

Welcome back to the Brown Surgery Podcast.

Today we going to continue our quick-shot podcast series on the basics of fluid resuscitation.

This is a concept that is often discussed and which clinicians encounter frequently, especially junior residents and advanced practice providers who find themselves covering critical care units managing patients with shock.

Joining me today to discuss this topic is Dr. Michael Connolly, MD. Mike is an associate professor of surgery and one of our trauma, critical care surgeons here at Brown Surgery.

Please comment if you enjoy these quick shot podcasts. If there is a topic you would like us to cover, please email me at: [email protected]

Welcome back to the Brown Surgery Podcast.

Today we going to continue our quick-shot podcast series on the basics of mechanical ventilation.

This is a concept that clinicians should have a good basic understanding of, especially those junior residents and advanced practice providers who find themselves covering critical care units managing patients on a ventilator.

Joining me today to discuss this topic is Dr. Tareq Kheirbek, MD. Tareq is an associate professor of surgery and one of our trauma, critical care surgeons here at Brown Surgery.

Please comment if you enjoy these quick shot podcasts. If there is a topic you would like us to cover, please email me at: [email protected]

As we kick off a new academic year with our new surgical interns, we have put together a quickshot podcast series on the management of critically ill patients to help them get up and running when preparing to take call.  In this first episode, we tackle the selection of vasopressors with one of our local trauma and critical care faculty members, Dr. Andrew Stephen, MD.  In the coming weeks, we will be continuing this quickshot series on topics such as fluid resuscitation, mechanical ventilation, and sedation.  

If you have topics you would like to hear us put together for this series, please reach out to me at [email protected] 

Today we are going to continue our career based podcast discussions and dive into the world of cardiothoracic surgery, specifically targeting the cardiac side of the equation.  To help put this into better perspective, we asked Dr. Neel Sodha, MD to join us on the podcast. Dr Sodha is an associate professor of surgery here at Brown and one of our cardiothoracic surgeons who typically takes our residents through a month of elective cardiac surgery. I thought he would be a great guest to have on today to explore some of the finer details about why he chose a career in cardiac surgery, what residents should be looking for in a fellowship program, and what a day in his life looks like.

Compartment syndrome and crush injury are two different clinical processes that are commonly confused with one another.  Our residents get to work up a number of these patients on the trauma and acute care surgery service and it is important to understand that while the two diagnoses are similar, recognizing the differences between them is extremely important and can significantly impact patient outcomes.  Today we discuss the workup and management of each of these diagnoses with our chief surgical resident Dr Juan Pablo Zhenlio, MD.

A few weeks ago we talked to both senior and junior surgical faculty here at Brown on how to better teach residents how to operate while in the operating room. If you haven’t listened to those podcasts yet, please be sure to check those out with doctors David Cloutier, Christine Emmick, Marcoandrea Giorgi and Andrew Luhrs. Today we will be continuing that discussion from the perspective of our chief resident Dr Eleanor Fallon, MD. as she discusses the best way senior residents can better prepare to take on teaching cases during residency.  

The workup and management of carotid artery disease is a common clinical condition that our surgical residents are frequently exposed to on the vascular surgery service.  Today, we continue our Chief Resident Podcast Project with Dr. Lily Wang, MD as she takes us through the workup and surgical management of carotid artery disease and discusses a few key clinical trials all residents should be familiar with when starting their vascular surgery rotation. 

Trials mentioned in this Podcast:

ACAS: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7723155/

NASCET: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10471419/

CREST: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20876500/

Today we are doing something different on this episode of our Chief Resident Podcast Project.  Dr Haley Leesley, MD is going to take us through two cases of esophageal perforations.  This should serve as a good overview and review of the surgical management of this disease process. Please let us know if you enjoy this format and would like to hear more cases presented like this on the podcast.