From the classroom to the emergency room, O.R. and beyond. You're joining trauma ICU rounds with your host, Dr. Dennis Kim.

Welcome back to trauma ICU rounds. I'm your host, Dennis Kim. And I've got to say, I'm really excited for today's rounds.

Joining us on the podcast today are several colleagues

and professors from both Texas as well as California, who will be discussing the pros and

cons of performing a subtotal colostectomy in patients with a difficult gallbladder.

Joining us from Lubbock, Texas is Dr. Sharmilla DeSanaki.

She's a professor and the Peter C. Canisero Chair of the Department of Surgery at

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

Out of Dallas is my buddy, Dr. Michael Truitt.

He is the Committee on Trauma Chair for North Texas.

He's also the Trauma Chair for North Texas.

He's also the trauma medical director and program director for the general surgery residency at the Methodist Dallas Medical Center.

Out of California, we have two of my partners, one Dr. Angela Neville, she's a professor

of clinical surgery and the program director for the general surgery

residency program here at Harbor, UCLA. And we also have Dr. Jessica Keely, who is an assistant

professor of surgery and the newest addition to our trauma ACS surgical critical care faculty

here at Harbor. We're also very fortunate to have Dr. Christian D. Virgilio join us.

He's a professor of clinical surgery, co-chair of the College of Platt Anatomy, and chair

of the Department of Surgery at Harbor, UCLA, and he will be co-moderating the discussion

with me.

So welcome everybody.

So a couple of weeks ago, the topic of subtotal colostectomy came across my Twitter feed and I found myself in the unpopular

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