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| GS01 |
Management of Acute Colonic Diverticulitis
Nonoperative, surgical, and interventional radiology treatments all play a role in the management of acute colonic diverticulitis. Often sequential therapies are necessary. The panel will discuss the appropriate use for ...
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1.5 |
Moderator: Ann C. Lowry, MD, FACS |
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| GS02 |
Incisional Hernia Conundrum
This educational session will discuss the role of component separation and its modifications when a patient with a multiply operated abdomen and an incisional hernia is not a candidate for a laparoscopic repair. The role...
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1.5 |
Moderator: Michael G. Sarr, MD, FACS |
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| GS12 |
Occult Gastrointestinal Bleeding
This session will focus on the appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic approaches in patients with occult gastrointestinal bleeding. Diagnostic approaches to be discussed include endoscopy, radioisotope scanning versus ar...
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1.5 |
Moderator: Theodore N. Pappas, MD, FACS |
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| GS15 |
Treatment of GERD: Pharmacologic, Endoscopic, or Surgical?
A wide range of therapies is now available for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). The panel will discuss the appropriate role of each treatment in the overall management of this common disorder.
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1.5 |
Moderator: Jeffrey H. Peters, MD, FACS |
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| GS26 |
Abdominal Catastrophes: Evolving Strategies for Managing the Open Abdomen
Widespread practice of damage control laparotomy and recognition of the abdominal compartment syndrome created an epidemic of open abdomens in busy trauma centers in the 1990s. As a result a variety of techniques have ev...
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1.5 |
Moderator: Frederick A. Moore, MD, FACS |
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| GS31 |
Current Topics in Health Policy and Advocacy
This session will focus on current legislative, regulatory and theoretical health policy initiatives and private sector developments affecting surgeons in practice. College representatives and outside experts will review...
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- |
Moderator: Josef E. Fischer, MD, FACS |
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| GS35 |
Key Lessons from the Central Judiciary Committee Reviews
This session will present an introduction and overview of the process and adjudication of disciplinary matters by the ACS Central Judiciary Committee. The panel will discuss actual cases reviewed by the committee. Specia...
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- |
Moderator: L. D. Britt, MD, MPH, FACS |
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| GS41 |
Controversies in Trauma Triage and Resuscitation
The ACS Committee on Trauma has advocated the use of a triage tool for trauma patients that has been widely adopted by emergency medical services. Recently, the Committee on Trauma, Centers for Disease Control and Preven...
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2 |
Moderator: Mary E. Fallat, MD, FACS |
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| GS42 |
Ductal Carcinoma In Situ: Evolving Strategies for Optimal Diagnosis and Management
This session will present the current status of diagnostic and imaging approaches to patients with ductal carcinoma in situ. Preoperative imaging, evaluation of tumor markers, surgical strategies, and appropriate selecti...
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1.5 |
Moderator: V. Suzanne Klimberg, MD, FACS |
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| GS74 |
Minimal Access Procedures for Pancreatic Disorders
This session will review the current experience and the future of minimally invasive approaches to disorders of the pancreas, including benign neoplasms, inflammatory necrotizing conditions, and malignancies. Patient sel...
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1.5 |
Moderator: Nathaniel J. Soper, MD, FACS |
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| GS78 |
Decision Making in Surgical Practice
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- |
Moderator: Jonathan L. Meakins, MD, FACS |
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| SP16-PC2 |
GIST: Evidence-Based Diagnostic and Therapeutic Strategies
This session will provide an update on the management of the increasingly common gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST). Topics to be reviewed include molecular biology, considerations in primary management of the tumors,...
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1.5 |
Moderator: Sharon M. Weber, MD, FACS |
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| GS04 |
Professional Development of Medical Students: The Surgeon As Role Model
Professionalism is a core competency. However, important forces in medical school and postgraduate medical education work against professionalism. Students are subjected to a hidden curriculum of contradictory values-the...
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2 |
Co-Moderators: Barry D. Mann, MD, FACS Charles M. Friel, MD |
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| GS06 |
I Need to Speak with You: Communicating Bad News to Patients and Their Families
Session Purpose
This course will focus on means to optimize disclosure and apology as a patient-centered practice to maintain physician-patient relationships after an unexpected outcome.
Target Audie... |
1.5 |
Moderator: Barbara L. Bass, MD, FACS |
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| GS21 |
The Difficult Patient: Strategies to Optimize Surgical Care
There are patients whose personality styles and disorders stimulate conflictual relationships with their surgeon and surgical caregivers. This session will describe, and show how to recognize, the personality characteris...
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2 |
Moderator: Mary H. McGrath, MD, MPH, FACS |
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| GS33 |
Maintaining Competence: A Continuum of Lifelong Learning
Although one might think that most of the learning process for surgeons is complete at the conclusion of a residency program or fellowship, in actuality, the learning process should extend for another 25 or 30 years, thr...
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2 |
Co-Moderators: Myriam J. Curet, MD, FACS James C. Hebert, MD, FACS Susan Kaiser, MD, FACS |
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| GS36 |
Strategies to Enhance Safety in the Operating Room
The panel will cover the following topics: (1) design and implementation of an institutional safety program for the operating room (OR); (2) systems aspects of patient and manpower flow in the perioperative period and th...
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3 |
Moderator: Lawrence W. Way, MD, FACS |
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| GS47 |
Patient Safety Through Simulation
Simulation includes the use of simulated patients and families using actors and actresses as well as simple and complex technical models. Simulation centers currently are being used for individual training of medical stu...
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3 |
Moderator: John M. Daly, MD, FACS |
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| GS48 |
Managing the Multidisciplinary Surgical Team
This session will address various strategies and considerations for selecting, training, and evaluating allied health professionals as valued members of the surgical team.
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1.5 |
Moderator: Peter J. Fabri, MD, FACS |
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| GS57 |
Using Data to Improve Patient Outcomes
This symposium will focus on the use of data to assess outcomes. The following topics will be discussed: the value of different available data sets, such as administrative data, registry data, population-based data, and ...
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3 |
Co-Moderators: Robin Susan McLeod, MD, FACS Peter Muscarella II, MD, FACS |
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| GS58 |
From Napkin Scribbles to Improvements in Patient Care
Surgeons have profound insights into "great ideas" to transform patient care. However, most of these "great ideas" are never translated to improvements in patient care because of a lack of understandi...
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3 |
Co-Moderators: Thomas J. Fogarty, MD, FACS Thomas M. Krummel, MD, FACS |
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| GS63 |
Learning from Our Mistakes
Everyone makes mistakes, but when a doctor makes a mistake in the care of a patient, the effects are widespread. The effect on the patient is usually easy to delineate. But what about the effects on the surgical team: th...
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2 |
Moderator: Andre R. Campbell, MD, FACS |
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| GS76 |
Putting Your ACS NSQIP Data to Work: Improving Your Departmental Surgical Quality Performance Using the ACS NSQIP System
This program will give an update on the current status of the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP). Specifically, the session will identify how institutional data can be ...
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2 |
Moderator: Darrell A. Campbell Jr., MD, FACS |
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| GS77 |
NoThing Left Behind, Year 3: New Policies and New Technology
This session will provide new insight and solutions to address the issue in patient safety of retained surgical items (RSIs). Cases of RSIs are system problems which occur with alarming regularity. Recent developments in...
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1.5 |
Moderator: Verna C. Gibbs, MD, FACS |
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| GS16 |
Education and Credentialing in New Procedures and Emerging Technologies
This session will include a panel presentation on educational interventions to address acquisition and verification of knowledge and skills relating to new procedures and emerging technologies, and credentialing to perfo...
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1.5 |
Moderator: Ajit K. Sachdeva, MD, FRCSC, FACS |
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| PG09 |
Accreditation of Education Institutes by the American College of Surgeons: A New Program to Support Acquisition and Verification of New Surgical Skills
This interactive, didactic course will provide attendees the background information regarding the new program for accreditation of education institutes by the American College of Surgeons, address the accreditation requi...
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4 |
Moderator: Carlos A. Pellegrini, MD, FACS |
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| PG02 |
Meeting the Requirements for the Maintenance of Certification in General Surgery
The goals of this course are to provide participants with the necessary knowledge and information to adequately prepare for all parts of Maintenance of Certification (MOC). Specifically, the course will review how to dev...
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4 |
Co-Moderators: Michael S. Nussbaum, MD, FACS James C. Hebert, MD, FACS |
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| SP23-COC |
Surgical Specialty Training in Breast Disease
This session will include the following presentations on the following topics: Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) Surgical Oncology Fellowship requirements, SSO Breast Fellowship requirements, and the pros and cons of br...
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- |
Moderator: David J. Winchester, MD, FACS |
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| MD04 |
Management of Hepatic Metastases
This session will compare the results of medical therapy, therapy by interventional radiology, and the surgical techniques of palliation versus attempted cure in patients with hepatic metastases.
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2 |
Moderator: Andrei C. Stieber, MD, FACS |
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| MD06 |
Notes Forum: Frontier for Intervention or Just Another Pathway to Mischief?
It is unique in one's medical career to see a true paradigm shift that significantly changes patient management. This generation experienced such a paradigm shift with the introduction of laparoscopic surgery. It is poss...
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1.5 |
Moderator: David W. Rattner, MD, FACS |
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| MD07 |
Management of Common Bile Duct Injuries
This session will address the roles of the gastroenterologist (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography), interventional radiologist, and surgeon when a patient sustains an injury to the common bile duct during lap...
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1.5 |
Moderator: Henry A. Pitt, MD, FACS |
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| MD12 |
Pancreatic Necrosis
This session is directed at comparing the results of open surgical debridement and drainage, drainage by laparoscopic or transgastric approaches, and drainage by interventional radiology. The speakers will include a trad...
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1.5 |
Moderator: David B. Adams, MD, FACS |
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| MD16 |
Adjuvant Therapy in Colon Cancer: Current Status
The standard of care for resected Stage III colon cancer is a six-month course of adjuvant therapy. However, the picture is less clear for resected Stage II colon cancer. In this session, the role of adjuvant therapy in ...
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2 |
Co-Moderators: Philip B. Paty, MD, FACS Michael A. Choti, MD, FACS |
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