BJS Academy SoMe Review for May 2023
13 June 2023
This is a selection of tweets posted by @BJSurgery @BJSOpen and @BJSAcademy between May 1st and May 30th 2023. We hope you enjoy them and would like to read your comments.
On May 1st, @BJSAcademy tweeted an important announcement: the new BJS Institute online #postgrad programme – Surgical Writing and Evidence-Based Practice.
You can find further information here.
On the same day, @BJSAcademy posted the article of the month for April: Basic Introduction to Artificial Intelligence by @tejedorpat. It is part of the @BJSAcademy #AI series:
The article can be read here.
One day later, May 2nd, @BjsOpen tweeted: “#RCT from China with n=96 shows that single ivof 1.5mg/kg lignocaine 10min b.f. tourniquet inflation in arthroscopic surgery inhibits tourniquet hypertension by TNF-α release & has beneficial effects on postop pain and recovery!”
The paper can be read here.
Coinciding with #EuroHernia2023, @BjsOpen quoted a tweet: “Our editor assistant, hernia enthusiast and collagen nerd @DrHenriksen talking about state of the art #hernia surgery at @BarcelonaEhs!!! #SoMe4Surgery @eurohernias @BJSAcademy @young_bjs:
The interview with Donald E. Low was tweeted by @BJSAcademy on May 5th: “Have the right partner at home and have the right partners at work.”
The interview can be read here.
On the same day, @BJSurgery shared a free access paper: Early-onset sporadic colorectal cancer: key question of early diagnosis and screening strategies:
The paper can be read here.
Two days later, May 7th, @BJSurgery tweeted a very interesting paper on machine learning-based prediction models in the perioperative setting:
The paper can be read here.
On May 9th, @BJSAcacemy announced that the second article in the AI series was available. The authors are @irene_spiridon and @DocSeeliger and the paper is about the optimisation of surgical pathology and the potential role of AI:
The paper can be read here.
@BjsOpen tweeted a must-read review about hereditary colorectal, gastric and pancreatic cancer on May 11th:
The manuscript can be read here.
On May 13th, an open access paper titled “Timing of symptomatic venous thromboembolism after surgery: meta-analysis” was shared by @BJSurgery:
The paper can be read here.
Four days later, on May 17th, @BJSurgery shared two important papers:
A #RCT investigating prophylactic onlay mesh placement techniques for optimal abdominal wall closure in an ex vivo biomechanical model:
The paper can be read here.
An #OpenAccess paper titled “Surgical Outcome Risk Tool to predict 30-day postop mortality in a mixed surgical population in Swedish tertiary hospitals”:
The paper can be read here.
On the same day, @BjsOpen shared a paper reviewing the current state of fluorescence-guided surgery by @BJSurgery editor @paulo_sutt et al.
The paper can be read here.
On May 18th, @BjsOpen added more fuel to the “volume debate” in colorectalsurgery with these questions: What’s the correlation of surgical specialization and surgeon resection volume on short-term outcome after emergent colon cancer resections? Differences between colorectal, general and acute care surgeons?
The paper can be seen here.
@BJSurgery congratulated Candice Downey on winning the BJS Prize at the ASGBI Surgical Congress in Harrogate, UK! #ASGBI2023 on May 19th:
An interesting poll was tweeted by @BjsOpen on May 21st: Leftsided colorectal leading to bowel obstruction -> What type of stoma you prefer as to surgery?
The results can be seen here:
On May 22nd, @BJSurgery shared another “Free to access” paper in the BJS May issue: Practice of changing gloves and its effect on surgical-site infections.
The paper can be read here.
A tweet to thank all the speakers and participants who contributed to the @BJSAcademy workshop – “how to referee a paper” was posted on May 27th:
The last tweet of the month was posted on May 30th by @BJSurgery and shared the manuscript titled: “Clinical outcomes following mechanochemical ablation of superficial venous incompetence compared with endothermal ablation”:
The paper can be read here.
Academy
Part of the charitable activity of the Society, BJS Academy is an online educational resource for current and future surgeons.
The Academy is comprised of five distinct sections: Continuing surgical education, Young BJS, Cutting edge, Scientific surgery and Surgical news. Although the majority of this is open access, additional content is available to BJS subscribers and strategic partners.
