School of Surgery

What's in the walls of your blood vessels? How are arteries different from veins? What is a capillary?
All these questions and more and some clinical applications are explained by showing what these structures look like down the microscope in this really useful podcast from Dr Susan Anderson, Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Nottingham, UK

"You, boy/girl! Tell me about this disease!" the consultant shouts at you in the middle of a ward round. Your eyes widen, your heart thumps, everyone looks at you, you break out into a cold sweat. You can't think of what to say! If only you'd watched this podcast on how to structure facts about any disease in a logical and easy to remember way. Exasperated the consultant moves onto your colleague who has watched this podcast, and gives a perfect answer using the In A Surgeon's Gown A Physician May Make Some Significant Progress mnemonic described here. Most med students and doctors in training know all the facts but can't get them out at important moments. Use this technique and you'll never be stuck again... Jon Lund is Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Nottingham, UK

The trachea, or windpipe in lay language, is a large membranous tube reinforced by rings of cartilage, extending from the larynx to the bronchi and allowing air to pass to and from the lungs.
Ideal for medical students and surgeons in training, Susan Anderson takes you on a tour of the histology of this tube, including revealing its ciliated pseudo stratified mucous membrane and the C-shaped hyaline cartilages which keep the trachea open.
Dr Susan Anderson is Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Nottingham, UK

What is the Latin word for eyelash and why is this relevant to the histology of the lung? To find out you need to watch this video podcast of the histology of the lung with Susan Anderson. As well as a refresher in Latin, also covered are structure of the airways, changes in the mucous membrane cell types, alveoli, surfactant, bronchodilators and why you hear crackles when you listen to the chest of someone with fibrosing alveolitis.
Dr Susan Anderson is Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Nottingham, UK

Susan Anderson takes you through the differences between the histology of the oesophagus and the stomach. Cell types and function and Barrett's oesophagus are discussed.
Susan Anderson is Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Nottingham, UK.

You need to know what normal looks like before you can recognise what is abnormal. Susan Anderson takes you on a tour of the mucosa of the stomach and duodenum in this video podcast. You'll be able to see the different structures in the mucosa, glands and those villi which become atrophic in coeliac disease.
A much more interesting way to learn about histology than looking in a textbook and quicker than sitting in a lecture.
Dr Susan Anderson is Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Nottingham, UK

Knowing the histology and embryology of the anorectal junction helps you to understand why you should band piles above the dentate line, why cancers in the region have different tissues of origin and spread to different lymph nodes. In this video podcast Susan Anderson takes you though important histological features of the large bowel and contrasts them with the different features of the anal canal. Clinical application of these features is also described Dr Susan Anderson is Associate Professor in Pathology at the University of Nottingham, UK

Part 1 of this podcast left you on the edges of your seats wondering about complications and long term follow up. In part 2 you can find out about what can go wrong after bariatric surgery and what to do about it from Eleanor Rudge and Ali Tavakkoli. Also, how to look after morbidly obese patients in the long term after surgery is discussed.
Eleanor Rudge is a Speciality Registrar in the East of England and Surgical Research Fellow at Harvard and Dr Ali Tavakkoli is a Bariatric Consultant Surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Morbid obesity is a significant problem for healthcare and public health around the world. Weight loss surgery, or bariatric surgery, is increasingly used to help people who cannot lose weight in other ways and who's excess weight is causing other medical problems.
In this audio podcast, mapped to ISCP learning objectives, Eleanor Rudge talks to Ali Tavakkoli about surgical treatment, multidisciplinary team assessment and the importance of psychological and dietetic assessment and indications and options for surgery (BMI thresholds may be different where you live), including gastric bands, sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass. Part 2 will discuss early and late complications of surgery and long term management of patients following bariatric surgery.
Miss Eleanor Rudge is a Speciality Registrar in the East of England and Surgical Research Fellow at Harvard and Dr Ali Tavakkoli is a Bariatric Consultant Surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Penetrating wounds to the chest can be immediately life threatening, requiring quick decision making and the right intervention. Everyone in the emergency department will be looking at you as the surgeon on the scene. Do you know what to do and why you'd be doing it?
In this audio podcast Andrew Deytrikh talks about the management of penetrating chest trauma with Adam Brooks. Mapped to ISCP objectives, differentiation between haemo and pneumothorax, safe chest drain insertion, needle pericardiocentesis, cardiac tamponade and the indications for resuscitative trauma thoracotomy are all discussed.
Andrew Deytrikh is a core trainee in surgery at the Royal Derby Hospital and Adam Brooks OBE is a consultant trauma surgeon and clinical lead for the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre in Nottingham, UK.