Journal Review in Hernia Surgery: What Defines a Hernia Center?
Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast
Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast
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🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Hosts:
- Dr. Sullivan “Sully” Ayuso, Chief Resident, Carolinas Medical Center (Charlotte, NC), @SAyusoMD (Twitter)
- Dr. Todd Heniford, Chief of GI & MIS, Carolinas Medical Center (Charlotte, NC), @THeniford (Twitter)
- Dr. Vedra Augenstein, Professor of Surgery, Carolinas Medical Center (Charlotte, NC), @VedraAugenstein (Twitter)
- Dr. Monica Polcz, Attending Surgeon, Baptist Health (Miami, FL), No Twitter handle
- Dr. Brittany Mead, GI & MIS Fellow, Carolinas Medical Center (Charlotte, NC), No Twitter handle
References:
-Shulkin et al, Characterizing Hernia Centers in the United States: What Defines a Hernia Center?, Hernia, 2022
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33871743/
-Köckerling et al, Accreditation and Certification Requirements for Hernia Centers and Surgeons: the ACCESS Project, Hernia, 2019
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33871743/
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| 0:00.0 | Behind the surgery podcast, relevant and engaging content designed to help you dominate the day. |
| 0:13.0 | Thank you for joining us for another episode of Behind the Knife. |
| 0:25.0 | We are pleased to be back for our second journal review episode and our fourth total episode focusing on hernia repair. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm solely at Uso graduating chief resident |
| 0:34.1 | in Carolina's Medical Center. |
| 0:35.5 | Once again, I am joined by professors Todd Henniford |
| 0:38.5 | and Vedra Agensin, both of whom are |
| 0:40.7 | abdominal wall and foregut surgeons here in Charlotte. |
| 0:43.0 | In addition, we have Dr. Monica Bolts, who is an attending surgeon at Baptist Health in Miami, Florida, and train here with us. |
| 0:50.0 | Today, we are also lucky enough to be joined for the first time by current advanced GI and MIS fellow at Carolinas Dr. Brittany Mead. |
| 0:57.0 | Dr. Mead will be graduating here in a couple of months and returning to Chicago where she will be a hernia surgeon at Rush and involved in |
| 1:04.0 | developing a new hernia center there. The topic for the episode today is just |
| 1:08.3 | that hernia centers. What are they and why do they matter in a field that is |
| 1:12.1 | relative infancy compared to other |
| 1:14.0 | surgical subspecialties, the centralization of resources and the development of specialized |
| 1:18.9 | centers is a new and evolving concept. Thus far the definition of a hernius center is somewhat subjective and has mostly been |
| 1:25.2 | a label that is applied by a designated individual center, or at least domestically here in the United |
| 1:31.1 | States that's been the case. |
| 1:33.0 | Given this ambiguity, we believe that is very important to discuss this on another herney |
| 1:37.5 | addition of behind the knife. |
| 1:39.5 | So Brittany, I'm going to let you kind of kick things off for us here this morning. |
| 1:43.7 | Awesome. Well, before we get started with reviewing our two articles, we first wanted to briefly |
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