Today we welcome back Samuel Tisherman, MD, Professor of Surgery and Director of the Center for Critical Care and Trauma Education and the Director of the Surgical ICU of the University of Maryland Medical Center. Dr. Tisherman recently joined UMMC directly from The University of Pittsburgh, where he was the Director of the Multidisciplinary Critical Care Training Program and program director for the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship. In his 20 years at the University of Pittsburgh he held several other titles, including Associate Director of the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, Professor in the Departments of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, and Director of the Neurotrauma Intensive Care Unit. Today we are fortunate to have Dr. Tisherman speak on what he know’s best: the cursed surgical abdomen. Over the next 60 minutes he navigates this unstable mine-field and leaves you with a better understanding of the thought process used before opening someone’s abdomen!