Young BJS
Dedicated to and managed by surgeons in training, Young BJS offers everything a trainee could need to supplement and expand upon their core learning.
Focusing on the importance of surgical research, it gives trainees the opportunity to read and critique research, design surgical projects and optimise their chances of being published in peer-reviewed journals.
Essay competition: my most rewarding day as a surgical trainee
Preoperative management and resectability criteria in perihilar cholangiocarcinoma
Evaluation and treatment of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm
A surgical challenge on the evacuation train
Georgios Karagiannidis MBBS, MRCS, AFHEA
High stakes on a plane
Oliver Kooseenlin
Everyday emergencies: “It’s the journey that matters”
Ayesha Unadkat
Cast your vote: ‘A surgical problem I helped manage on a plane, boat or train’ essay competition
Antibiotic stewardship in acute pancreatitis
Rectal cancer surgery: radiology roadmaps
BJS Open 2024 best colorectal surgery articles: editors’ choices
The best of hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) surgery in BJS Open : advancing frontiers towards 2025
Adrenocortical carcinoma: what you at least should know
de Ponthaud C, Roy M, Gaujoux S. Br J Surg 2024; 111: znae177. Comment: Higher risk than you think, and needs expert multidisciplinary care.
Severe acute pancreatitis
Søreide K, Barreto SG, Pandanaboyana S. Br J Surg 2024; 111: znae170. Comment: The cornerstones are supportive care, pain relief and early nutrition, with a step-up approach to surgery.
Acute large bowel obstruction
Lingham G, Okocha M, Griffiths B. Br J Surg 2024; 111: znae202. Comment: Mainly a surgical disease.
Small bowel obstruction
Walshaw J, Smith HG, Lee MJ. Br J Surg 2024; 111: znae167. Comment: Higher mortality than you think. Requires careful use of non-operative strategy.
Acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding
Ong HW, Newman S, Proud D, Mohan H. Br J Surg 2024; 111: znae166. Comment: Most not life-threatening. Use of Oakland score may be useful to guide urgency of investigation and treatment.
Faecal peritonitis.
Sánchez-Rodríguez M, Tejedor P. Br J Surg 2024; 111: znae169. Comment: Timely diagnosis and early source control reduce mortality
Management of blunt abdominal trauma.
Ashley JR, Burczak KW, Cotton BA, Clements TW. Br J Surg 2024; 111: 2024, znae168. Comment: Most patients who die have multiple injuries.
A threat to life and limb: acute lower limb ischaemia
Karonen E, Butt T, Eek F, Acosta S. Br J Surg 2024; 111: znae150. Comment: Survival and limb salvage rates remain stagnant
Why I became a trauma surgeon
Karim Brohi FRCS FRCA
Karim Brohi shares why he became a trauma surgeon.
Why I became a cardiac surgeon
Bil Kirmani BSc MbChB PGCert MD FRCS(C-Th)
Consultant Cardiac Surgeon
Associate Chief Clinician Information Officer
Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Liverpool
Research Scholar, NIHR CRN NW
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital
Liverpool L14 3PE
UK
Bil Kirmani shares why he became a cardiac surgeon.
Why I became a hernia surgeon
Andrew de Beaux, MD, MBChB, FRCSEd, FEBS, AWS
NHS Lothian, Scotland,
Oxford University Hospitals, England
Spire Murrayfield Hospital, Scotland
@acdebeaux
It is interesting how surgery evolves. What was largely seen as a training operation left to trainees, hernia repair become a rapidly expanding area of surgery now linked under the more prestigious title of Abdominal Wall Surgery. And it is also interesting to see how careers evolve. In my own case, while always having an interest in hernia surgery, chance events, from whom I worked with, who I met in industry and the opportunities to change surgical interests because of colleagues, should not be underestimated. Once I started talking about incisional hernia repair, the referrals came flooding in! Looking back on my career, I give the 5 reasons, that in retrospect, moulded my career as an Abdominal Wall surgeon. 1. Friends in the hernia business worldwide.