Surgery 101

Surgery 101

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Surgery 101 episodes

  • Postpartum Problems Series – Maternal Physiology
    In this podcast, 4th-year medical student Mandy Litt from the University of Saskatchewan will review maternal physiology. After listening to this podcast, you should be able to:
    • Understand the basic physiology that occurs during pregnancy and the postpartum period
    • Be able to recognize medical issues that can arise during these periods of time
    12 min
  • Acute Limb Ischemia
    Rebecca Afford is a 4th year medical student from the Northern Medical Program at UBC. This podcast has been created with help from Dr. Jonathan Misskey, vascular surgeon at Vancouver General Hospital.
    The topic of today's podcast will be acute limb ischemia.
    By the end of this podcast, the listener should be able to:
    #1. Define the importance of recognizing and treating acute limb ischemia
    #2. Understand the pathophysiology and risk factors for acute limb ischemia
    #3. Identify key features on history and physical examination suggestive of acute limb ischemia
    #4. Create a differential diagnosis for acute limb ischemia
    #5. Understand the natural history of acute limb ischemia
    #6. Be aware of surgical and non-surgical options for the treatment of acute limb ischemia
    and finally, #7. Identify potential complications of reperfusing a limb
    24 min
  • Congenital Neck Masses
    Alice Liu is a fourth year student at the University of British Columbia. Sarah Zahabi is a fourth year medical student at McGill University.
    By the end of this podcast, listeners should be able to:
    describe an approach to common congenital neck masses in children
    explain how the clinical presentation of common congenital neck masses relates to their embryologic origins
    outline the treatment of the most common congenital neck masses in children
    14 min
  • Pulmonary Embolisms and Deep Vein Thrombosis
    In this podcast Gaurang Joshi, a first year surgical resident at the University of Illinois in Chicago Metropolitian Group Hospitals, discusses Pulmonary Embolisms and Deep Vein Thrombosis.
    After listening to this podcast you should be able to:
    ● Understand why the detection of PE is important
    ● Explain the pathophysiology of a PE
    ● Describe the clinical signs and presentation of a PE
    ● Recognize your Differential Diagnosis when suspecting a PE
    ● Know the treatment options
    19 min
  • Acute Abdomen
    This week's episode is brought to you by medical student, Megan Spafford from the University of Saskatchewan, who will be discussing how to approach and acute abdomen.
    After listening to this podcast you should be able to:
    Define the term "acute abdomen "
    Review the clinical presentation and diagnostic approach to patients presenting withacute abdominal pain
    Discuss critical aspects that may influence the management and timing of managementof patients with an acute abdomen.
    List the differential diagnosis of acute abdominal pain
    Develop an appropriate plan for the management of patients with acute abdominal pain
    17 min
  • Vascular Malformations
    This weeks episode is brought to us by Jeyanth Inkaran a medical student at McMaster's medical school. Jeyanth will discuss the neurosurgical wonder of intracranial vascular malformations
    Learning objectives are as follows:
    What are the categories of vascular malformations and how do they typically present?
    What are the treatment options and potential consequences? How do you choose an ideal treatment?
    What imaging tools are useful for diagnosis?
    16 min
  • Trauma – Managing Bleeding
    This is the 2nd episode in a 2-part series on dealing with trauma. This episode is brought to you by Tiffany Paradis, a 4th year medical student at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Today we will discuss how to manage a patient who has undergone a trauma. In the last episode, we looked at initial assessment and resuscitation, and in this episode we'll look at the management of hemorrhage.
    By the end of this podcast you should be able to:
    Identify the two types of hemorrhage
    Provide three methods to control external hemorrhage
    Define the FAST exam, why it is performed, and the regions examined
    List the six locations of life threatening bleeding
    Define the difference between exploratory and damage control laparotomy
    14 min
  • Trauma- Assessment and Resuscitation
    This is the 1st episode in a 2-part series on dealing with trauma. This episode is brought to you by Tiffany Paradis, a 4th year medical student at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Today we will discuss how to manage a patient who has undergone a trauma. In this episode, we'll look at initial assessment and resuscitation, and in next week's episode we'll look at the management of hemorrhage.
    By the end of this podcast you should be able to:
    List the four main types of shock
    Describe how hemorrhagic shock is classified
    Describe the steps to the primary survey
    List the three main classes of intravenous fluids
    What is the deadly triad
    17 min
  • What is the System?
    Will Dr. Anderson choose the blue soup? Join the Surgery 101 team as we start our adventure examining health systems. Can you handle the truth? What is Dr. Anderson willing to risk to take a closer look at the system? Interested in what happens next? Please leave us a comment.
    6 min
  • Acute Burn Injuries – Dr. Kwan
    In this episode, Dr. Kwan, a plastic surgeon from the University of Alberta, discusses acute burn injuries.
    After listening to this episode, learners should to be able to:
    Understand how to conduct a burn assessment.
    Understand the management process of acute burns.
    Recognize potential complications of burn injury.
    Understand Burn Centre Referral Criteria.
    26 min

About Surgery 101

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Welcome to Surgery 101, a podcast series produced with the help of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. These 10-to-20-minute episodes serve as brief introductions or reviews of basic surgical concepts for medical students. Every episode is divided into chapters and concludes with several key points to summarize the topic. New episodes are published every Friday. We are always keen to receive your feedback and are accepting suggestions for additional topics.