Behind the Knife ABSITE 2026 - Pediatric Surgery

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

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🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to Behind the Knife, AbSight Review, 2026.
0:12.3	Be sure to check out our free study aid, which includes all 32 review episodes, brief written summaries, high-yield images, and flashcards.
0:20.6	Simply create an account on our website or app, and you will find the entire course in
0:24.4	your library.
0:25.5	And don't forget our ab site review book available on Amazon.
0:29.2	Dominate the day and dominate the ab site.
0:32.9	Behind a knife is proud to partner with Medtronic to support the entire 26 AbSight podcast series. Medtronic has a rich history of supporting surgical education, and we
0:42.5	couldn't be happier that they chose to partner with Behind the Knife. Their sponsorship has
0:46.3	gone a long way in supporting us as we develop exciting new content. Medtronic's innovation
0:51.3	and surgical stapling with a Cygnia small diameter reload, a slimmer reload that can be used to effectively staple vasculature in pediatric procedures, and is compatible with all Medtronic handles.
1:02.4	Improve stapling access in your procedures with Ascignia Small Diameter Reload.
1:07.0	Welcome back to Behind the Knife, and today we're going to do Pediatric Ab-Sight, and we have a longtime favorite of Behind the Knife and today we're going to do pediatric absight and we have a long time favorite of Behind the Knife making a special appearance to help lead us through the pediatric review and it is the newest pediatric surgeon in the army. Dr. Wudo, Wu, welcome.
1:24.9	Hey, Kevin. Thanks. Thanks for having me. John, it's good to see you again. It's so nice to get the gang back together. Really excited to kick this off. So let's just jump right in. Let's start with pediatric trauma. We know that trauma is the number one cause of death in children. And John, why don't you start us off? What's the best indicator of shock in pediatric patients?
1:45.9	Yeah, it's the best indicator is tachycardia. The one thing about kids that you have to know,
1:50.9	and this works clinically as well, is that they look great until they don't. So they decomposate
1:56.1	very quickly, but the first thing you're going to start to see is that heart rate creeping up.
2:00.3	Absolutely. They're able to compensate all the is that heart rate creeping up. Absolutely.
2:04.3	They're able to compensate all the way up until the point they don't.
2:07.0	And so tachycardia is what you're watching for.
2:13.1	And so, Kevin, do you want to take us through the tachycardia by age group, general rules of thumb for what's considered normal range?
2:15.7	Yeah, absolutely.
2:16.5	So for neonates, you consider tachycardcardia if it's greater than 150 beats per minute.
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