Scrubcast

Stanford Hospital recently implemented a new clinical pathway for geriatric trauma patients. Dr. Kristan Staudenmayer joins us to discuss the new pathway and how it led to lower rates of delirium in older adults with traumatic injury. Her findings were recently published in JAMA Surgery: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/article-abstract/2792936

Dr. Staudenmayer is an Associate Professor in our Trauma and Clinical Care section and Associate Surgical ICU Medical Director. She is also a member of the American College of Surgeons’ Committee on Trauma.

Can medical mission trips make a lasting impact? Dr. Anna Luan’s new research shows that it can. She talks about her paper published in the March edition of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery titled “Expansion of Reconstructive Surgery Capacity in Vietnam” and ReSurge International’s visiting educator program.

Dr. Luan is a Chief resident in Stanford’s Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Residency Program and was the Laub Fellow during her Professional Development years.

Dr. Ron Dalman discusses a new clinical trial that has just started recruiting patients. LIMIT stands for Limiting AAA With Metformin. The popular diabetes drug has been shown to be negatively associated with the progression of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) disease. Now with over population studies spanning two decades and several continents, the team at Stanford is ready to explore whether the same results can be achieved proactively.

Dr. Dalman is the Chidester Professor and Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs at Stanford Surgery. He is also a past president of the Society for Vascular Surgery.

For more information on the Clinical Trial, click here: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04500756

If you would like to enroll in the study, contact Study Research Coordinator Lori McDonnell at [email protected]

On this episode of Scrubcast, Dr. Elsie Ross discusses artificial intelligence in vascular surgery. Dr. Ross is now an assistant professor but started her work with bioinformatics during her residency professional development years. We take a deep dive into one of her papers published in The Journal of The American Heart Association titled “Unsupervised Learning for Automated Detection of Coronary Artery Disease Subgroups.” She talks about receiving mentorship from Drs. Nick Leeper and Nigam Shah, providing mentorship to then medical student Dr. Alyssa Flores, as well as what’s next in her research plan.

In this special edition of Scrubcast, we interview two of our winners from our annual Holman Day celebration.

Dr. Jeff Choi, a general surgery resident just finishing his professional development years, won the award for best podium presentation in the clinical and health services research category. His abstract was titled “Tackling the Bedside Artificial Intelligence Barrier: Natural Language Processing to Extract Injury ICD10 Diagnosis Codes Real-Time from Electronic Medical Records.”

Dr. Cintia Kimura, is a postdoc hailing all the way from Brazil. She won the award for best poster presentation in the clinical and health services research category with her abstract titled "Effect of an online home-based prehabilitation program on outcomes after colorectal surgery."

Drs. Liam Rose and Todd Wagner join this episode to talk about their paper published in JAMA Network Open: "Association of Expanded Health Care Networks With Utilization Among Veterans Affairs Enrollees.” The two authors describe the process of taking a project from idea to award-winning research.

Dr. Rose is a Health Economist who works at the VA Palo Alto’s Health Economics Resource Center and our own S-SPIRE Center. Dr. Wagner Directs the Health Economics Resource Center at the Palo Alto VA and is a Professor at S-SPIRE.

In this episode, we focus on a paper published in the journal Anesthesiology titled "Labeled Surgical Caps: A Tool to Improve Perioperative Communication.” I'm joined by one of the authors, Dr. Ausama Nassar.

Originally known as the #theatrecapchallenge in Australia, Dr. Nassar talks about how the idea of scrub caps with names and positions took off at Stanford.

Dr. Nassar is a Clinical Assistant Professor in our Division of General Surgery. He is Director of our Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Program, and Director of Stanford Health Care’s Surgery Coaching Program.

The topic of Episode 2 spans surgical oncology, reconstructive surgery, and innovation as we look at a recent paper published in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery titled "Creating a Biological Breast Implant with an Omental Fat-Augmented Free Flap."

Dr. Dung Nguyen describes how she and her team faced a unique breast cancer and reconstruction challenge that led to an innovative new technique.

Dr. Nguyen is a Clinical Professor in Stanford’s Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the Director of Breast Reconstruction at the Stanford Women’s Cancer Center. She is also the Director of the Adult Plastics Clinic at Stanford Healthcare.

This episode focused on an original investigation published in JAMA Network Open titled "Trends in US Surgical Procedures and Health Care System Response to Policies Curtailing Elective Surgical Operations During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Dr. Wren tells the story of how she arrived at this topic from the POV of a global surgeon and assembled a varied team of specialists. She also talks about what she’s learned in the process and plans for further research looking at disparities and the impacts of the delta and omicron variants.