School of Surgery

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What's School of Surgery about?

Audio and video podcasts aimed at medical students and doctors in training on a growing range of topics across surgery.

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School of Surgery episodes:

05.30.2021
Episode 168: How to be Greener in Surgery, Part 2
In part 1 @CleoKenington, ASGBI lead for Sustainability, told us about the huge problem healthcare has with greenhouse emissions and what to do about improving pathways to minimise healthcare impact, In this eposode Cleo tell us what each of us...
05.30.2021
Episode 168: How to be Greener in Surgery part 1
In the UK, the National Health Service accounts for 5.4% of the carbon emissions for the whole country! Surgery accounts for 5-10% of this total. The target is an 80% reduction in greenhouse emissions by 2028. Find out what's going...
03.31.2021
Episode 167: Intussusception part 2 - investigation and treatment
All you need to know about investigation and treatment of this common and serious condition. Indications for pneumatic or hydrostatic reduction, plus operative intervention and complications are all covered. There are fantastic, beautifully handwritten notes to accompany both podcasts that you...
03.31.2021
Episode 167: Intussusception part 1 - Incidence, history and examination
David Kiely asks Shalinder Singh about intussusception, a common and serious cause of abdominal pain in children aged 3 months to 3 years. This podcast covers all you need to know about the incidence, history and examination of intussusception. Part 2...
03.27.2021
Episode 166: Operations and post-op care for SBO
You'll need to operate on about 1/3 patients with SBO. Matt Lee tells you what approach is best and when, and how to look after your patients after the operation Matt Lee is Clinical Lecturer in Surgery at the University of...
03.27.2021
Episode 167: SBO - nutrition, gastrograffin and who to operate on
Who's going to settle with drip and suck and who isn't? Matt Lee tells you how to tell, who to operate on and when and not to forget that patients with small bowel obstruction need feeding! Further reading: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/7/e029235.abstract
03.27.2021
Episode 166: Management of small bowel obstruction
Once you've diagnosed small bowel obstruction, Matt Lee tells us the best initial management Matt Lee is Clinical Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Sheffield and a world expert in small bowel obstruction
03.27.2021
Episode 166: Incidence, causes, history and examination of SBO
Matt Lee talks about causes of small bowel obstruction, important points in the history and examination. Matt Lee (@wannabehawkeye) is a Clinical Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Sheffield
03.27.2021
Episode 165: What is NASBO?
If the National Audit of Small Bowel Obstruction was a car, Matt Lee is the engine and most of the other moving parts. In this podcast Matt (@wannabehawkeye) talks about NASBO and its main findings and recommendations. Further reading here: https://academic.oup.com/bjsopen/article/3/3/354/6060819
10.27.2020
Gastroschisis - all you need to know
All you need to know about the management of this complex abdominal wall defect of the newborn. Similar to but different from exomphalos (listen to our other episode on that condition). With David Kiely and Shalinder Singh
10.17.2020
Exomphalos (omphalocoele) - All you need to know
All you need to know about the management of this complex abdominal wall defect of the newborn. With David Kiely and Shalinder Singh
09.10.2020
Pyloric Stenosis - part 2
Learn about pre-operative resuscitation and operative management of pyloric stenosis. Essential listening for anyone who is learning to operate on children. With David Kiely and Mike John.
09.10.2020
Pyloric Stenosis - part 1
All you need to know about the aetiology, history, examination and investigation of pyloric stenosis. Essential listening for anyone who treats children, be you surgeon, paediatrician, ED doctor or GP/family doctor. With David Kiely, Mike John and those squeaky chairs again
09.05.2020
The Paediatric Acute Scrotum
All you need to know about management of the acute scrotum in children. With David Keily, Mike John and 2 squeaky chairs!
08.28.2020
Paediatric Hydrocoele
All you need to know about the diagnosis and management of hydrocoele in children. How it is different from hydrocoeles in adults and the central importance of the processus vaginalis, differential diagnosis, investigations and treatment are all covered. Special cases...
08.22.2020
Paediatric Inguinal Hernia - Part 2
In part 2 of this podcast learn how to deal with emergency presentations of inguinal hernia in children, top tips on how to reduce an inguinal hernia in children, indications and timing of surgery and what to tell parents. Operative...
08.22.2020
Paediatric Inguinal Hernia Part 1
Inguinal hernias are one of the most common conditions in paediatric surgery and this podcast is essential listening for anyone dealing with hernais in children in primary of secondary care. How paediatric hernias different are from adult hernias, predisposing factors...
08.09.2020
Paediatric Surgery fluid balance - part 2
Now you know how much fluid to give, Shalinder Singh tells David Keily what fluid to use and why in a range of settings from trauma to pyloric stenosis to maintenance fluids in children. When and why to use crystalloid...
08.09.2020
Paediatric Surgery fluid balance - part 1
Prescribing fluids in paediatric surgical patients can be daunting. This podcast tells you easy to remember ways of recognising the degree of fluid loss, why signs like diastolic hypertension are important and a method of calculating how much fluid to...
02.03.2019
The Normal ECG
How to recognise and interpret a normal ECG, with Dr. Julia Baron. All you need to know
02.02.2019
The ECG in acute coronary syndromes
Third podcast in the ECG series this is an easy to follow, step by step way to recognise and interpret ECGs (EKGs) in acute coronary syndromes, ST-elevation myocardial infarction, and non ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Dr. Julia Baron's legendary teaching captured...
01.25.2019
Treatment of haemorrhoids, with Steve Brown
All you need to know about the treatment of haemorrhoids with Professor Steve Brown, the brains behind the HubBLe trail. Definitions, conservative, outpatient and operative treatments in standard and special situations are covered, and the evidence for each. Steve also tells...
01.20.2019
How to scrub
Helen Mercer shows Jon Lund how to scrub and put on gloves and a gown for an operation. Essential viewing for medical students and nursing students
10.20.2018
ECG - the basics
Learn the basics of the ECG - why it looks like it does, how each of the chest and limb leads "look at" the heart, what the P, Q R, S and T waves represent in the heart itself and...
07.24.2018
Modern treatment of anal fistula: an overview with Phil Tozer
Recorded at the International Conference of Anal Fistula Treatment in Rome 2018, Techniques in Coloproctology interview Phil Tozer, a consultant at the world famous St Mark's Hospital, UK about current treatments for anal fistula. Phil takes us through why not...
06.16.2018
What muscle looks like down the microscope (skeletal, cardiac and smooth)
Professor Susan Anderson helps you recognise and understand the similarities and differences between the microscopic appearances of skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscle. All you need to know. Susan Anderson is Professor of Pathology at the University of Nottingham, UK
06.09.2018
What skin looks like down the microscope
Professor Susan Anderson shows you the microscopic structure of the largest organ in the body - the skin. All you need to know about the structure and the cells of the skin and associated glands and hairs. Great for learning, revising for...
06.03.2018
What epithelium looks like down the microscope
Professor Susan Anderson shows us what the layers of cells that cover our outsides and our insides look like down the microscope. Learn how to recognise each type of epithelium and why they need to be different. Also learn the...
06.02.2018
What your bladder and ureter look like down the microscope
Take a microscopic tour down the urinary tract from the kidney to the bladder with Professor Susan Anderson. See the unique transitional cell epithelium and the muscular arrangement of the organs. All you need to know for exams or to...
05.31.2018
What your kidney looks like down the microscope
Susan Anderson shows you the layers of the kidney, and how the function of the kidney depends on its microscopic anatomy. SHe takes you on a tour of the glomerulus, Bowman's capsule, the juxtaglomerular apparatus, loop of Henle and the...
05.19.2018
How to manage early rectal cancer
The management of early rectal cancer is becoming increasingly complex.Find out all you need to know about diagnosis, staging, treatment, follow up and prognosis in this podcast. Steve Schlichtemeier is the colorectal robotic surgical fellow at the Royal Derby Hospital, UK...
11.11.2017
Radiotherapy for surgeons - clinical applications
In the second podcast on radiotherapy, Sindu Vivekanandan explains to Keaton Jones what is meant by the terms adjuvant and neoadjuvant, what the 3 main ways of delivering radiotherapy are, in which tumour radiotherapy is effective and in which it...
11.04.2017
Radiotherapy for surgeons - the basics
Keaton Jones asks Sindu Vivekanandan what is radiotherapy, how it works and why we use it. Dose and fractionation are explained along with the '4Rs' of radiobiology: repair, reassortment, repopulation and reoxygenation. Toxicity is discussed as well as methods for...
09.16.2017
Anal Fissure - the evidence
Rick Nelson knows more about anal fissure than almost anyone in the world and has recently published a comprehensive meta-analysis of the evidence supporting treatment for anal fissure in the leading journal, Techniques in Coloproctology. There are some surprises that will...
06.21.2017
How to manage bariatric surgery complications for the non bariatric surgeon - part 2
How to recognise and immediately manage complications of sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass are discussed in the second part of this podcast. Understand why bariatric patients clinical examination might be unreliable, why vomiting or jaundice are danger symptoms which may...
06.21.2017
How to manage bariatric surgery complications for the non bariatric surgeon - part 1
You're not a bariatric surgeon, but you need to know how the immediate management of complications of bariatric surgery because they might well come in to your hospital, even if its not a bariatric surgical centre. In the first of 2...
04.14.2017
Perforated Diverticular Disease: the evidence
For decades the only real option for perforated diverticular disease was a Hartmann's procedure, but there has been a lot of interest in the less invasive and stoma saving laparoscopic lavage and drainage procedure as an alternative. But is it...
03.18.2017
Urology for the non urologist - practical tips on what to do when called in the night
A host of practical tips on difficult urethral catheter insertion, changing a suprapubic catheter, managing a 3-way catheter, what to do when you're called about testicular pain, paraphimosis or a nephrostomy. When you have listened to this podcast by Philly Horner...
03.13.2017
A novel sphincter sparing technique for complex fistula in ano
Dr Ruediger Prosst, Director of The Proctological Institute in Stuttgart, Germany, tells Jon Lund about his experience in treating the often challenging problem of high and complex anal fistula using a novel, sphincter sparing clipping device. This podcast links to...
03.05.2017
Haematuria - all you need to know
All you need to know about the classification, presentation, diagnosis, investigation and treatment of causes of haematuria: Philly Horner talks to Simon Williams, Consultant Urological Surgeon
02.05.2017
Calcium disorders - All you need to know
"Doctor, Mrs Smith's calcium is 2.9, what do you want me to do?" Cat Boereboom talks to Roger Stanworth about all aspects of the presentation, diagnosis and treatment of both high and low calcium. Once you've listened to this podcast you...
02.02.2017
Small Bowel Obstruction - All you need to know
Philly Horner talks to Gill Tierney about the presentation, diagnosis and treatment of small bowel obstruction, a very common condition presenting as an emergency. This podcast contains all you need to know if you're a medical student, foundation doctor (intern),...
02.01.2017
How to interpret a meta analysis - quickly
All you need to know about how to interpret the results of a meta analysis in 14 minutes and 15 seconds. If you find yourself in an exam and asked to review a meta analysis in an interview or an exam,...
01.26.2017
A guide to surgical instruments - what's on a basic surgical tray and what are they for?
When you are doing surgery you need to know what the instruments are called and what they are used for. In this easy to follow guide, Jon Lund and June Brown take you through the instruments you will find on...
01.14.2017
Management of the Airway in Trauma Patients
A is the first letter of ABC and is the first thing to get right when managing a trauma patient. It can be very challenging and time is pressured. In this advanced level podcast for anaesthetists and surgeons involved in...
12.15.2016
Systematic Review and Meta analysis - All you ever need to know
Meta analysis is a very common way of bringing together data to help us decide which treatments might be best. BUT, you have to take care when interpreting them - there's a lot more to it than just looking which...
12.09.2016
How to choose the correct statistical test - or how to tell the correct test has been used
Knowing how to chose the correct statistical test is essential if you're analysing data, reading a paper or sitting in the academic stations of the FRCS or National Selection. Watch this podcast by statistical guru Brett Doleman and you'll know...
09.27.2016
Functional Constipation - All you need to know and more
Functional Constipation is a really challenging condition to treat in gastroenterology and surgery. In this podcast Jon Lund asks Robin Spiller about the condition, the underlying physiology, how to differentiate from IBS constipation and the range of treatments for FC....
08.13.2016
Chest pain on the Surgical Ward - part 3
See if you can get to the correct answers before James Cassidy does in the third and final part of Naomi Laskar's interactive teaching video on causes of chest pain you might see when covering the wards. Really useful things to...
08.06.2016
Chest Pain on the Surgical Ward - part 2
Naomi Laskar puts James Cassidy through his paces again in the second case of chest pain you are likely to come across as an F1/intern on a surgical or other ward. See if you can get the right answers before James...

What's School of Surgery about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

School of Surgery episodes:

Episode 168: How to be Greener in Surgery, Part 2

Episode 168: How to be Greener in Surgery part 1

Episode 167: Intussusception part 2 - investigation and treatment

Episode 167: Intussusception part 1 - Incidence, history and examination

Episode 166: Operations and post-op care for SBO

Episode 167: SBO - nutrition, gastrograffin and who to operate on

Episode 166: Management of small bowel obstruction

Episode 166: Incidence, causes, history and examination of SBO

Episode 165: What is NASBO?

Gastroschisis - all you need to know

Exomphalos (omphalocoele) - All you need to know

Pyloric Stenosis - part 2

Pyloric Stenosis - part 1

The Paediatric Acute Scrotum

Paediatric Hydrocoele

Paediatric Inguinal Hernia - Part 2

Paediatric Inguinal Hernia Part 1

Paediatric Surgery fluid balance - part 2

Paediatric Surgery fluid balance - part 1

The Normal ECG

The ECG in acute coronary syndromes

Treatment of haemorrhoids, with Steve Brown

How to scrub

ECG - the basics

Modern treatment of anal fistula: an overview with Phil Tozer

What muscle looks like down the microscope (skeletal, cardiac and smooth)

What skin looks like down the microscope

What epithelium looks like down the microscope

What your bladder and ureter look like down the microscope

What your kidney looks like down the microscope

How to manage early rectal cancer

Radiotherapy for surgeons - clinical applications

Radiotherapy for surgeons - the basics

Anal Fissure - the evidence

How to manage bariatric surgery complications for the non bariatric surgeon - part 2

How to manage bariatric surgery complications for the non bariatric surgeon - part 1

Perforated Diverticular Disease: the evidence

Urology for the non urologist - practical tips on what to do when called in the night

A novel sphincter sparing technique for complex fistula in ano

Haematuria - all you need to know

Calcium disorders - All you need to know

Small Bowel Obstruction - All you need to know

How to interpret a meta analysis - quickly

A guide to surgical instruments - what's on a basic surgical tray and what are they for?

Management of the Airway in Trauma Patients

Systematic Review and Meta analysis - All you ever need to know

How to choose the correct statistical test - or how to tell the correct test has been used

Functional Constipation - All you need to know and more

Chest pain on the Surgical Ward - part 3

Chest Pain on the Surgical Ward - part 2