Let's Talk Diverticulitis

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Education

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🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

We got the gang together (minus John, who is on mission). Today, we are talking about diverticulitis with super expert Scott Steele. Scott walks Jason, Patrick, and Kevin through the nuances of modern-day management of diverticulitis. We cover laparoscopic lavage, review decision making for surgical resection after drainage, and discuss the evolving role of antibiotics in uncomplicated cases. Surgical techniques, including resection boundaries and the consideration of diverting ostomies in emergent situations, are also reviewed. DOMINATE THE COLON!

Hosts
Scott Steele, MD: @ScottRSteeleMD
Scott is the Rupert B. Turnbull MD Endowed Chair in Colorectal Surgery and Chairman of Colorectal Surgery at Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, OH. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, he was an active duty Army officer for over 20 years, serving as the Chief of Colorectal Surgery at Madigan Army Medical Center. He also received his MBA from Case Western University Weatherhead School of Business and Management.

Patrick Georgoff, MD: @georgoff
Patrick Georgoff is an Acute Care Surgeon at Duke University. He went to medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, completed General Surgery residency and Surgical Critical Care fellowship at the University of Michigan, and a Trauma Surgery fellowship at the University of Texas in Houston. His clinical practice includes the full spectrum of Acute Care Surgery in addition to elective hernia surgery. Patrick is the Associate Program of the General Surgery Residency and associate Trauma Medical Director at Duke.

Kevin Kniery, MD: @Kniery_Bird
Kevin is a vascular surgeon at Brooke Army Medical Center. He completed his undergraduate degree at the United States Military Academy in West Point, medical school at Tulane University, general surgery residency at Madigan Army Medical Center, and vascular fellowship at Cornell and Columbia.

Jason Bingham, MD: @BinghamMd
Jason is a general and bariatric surgeon at Madigan Army Medical Center. He also serves as the Director of Research and Associate Program Director for the general surgery residency program. He received his undergraduate degree from New York University and medical degree at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. He is a medical officer in the US Army with several combat deployments under his belt. Jason’s research efforts focus on the management of hemorrhagic shock, trauma induced coagulopathy, and ischemia-reperfusion injury.

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0:00.0	Behind the Knife, The Surgery Podcast, relevant and engaging content welcome back to Behind the Knife.
0:24.8	We got a special episode today because we're joined with some of our directors of Behind
0:29.8	the Knife.
0:30.3	We have the Dr. Scott Steele, Jason Bingham, Kevin Canary, myself, Patrick Georgeoff.
0:35.0	Unfortunately, John McClellan is a way defending our country.
0:42.2	So he can't be with us at this very moment. But we're excited to be together. And we've got a lot to talk about. We are dive in to a common but complicated and sometimes frustrating topic in
0:50.9	diverteeotitis. This touches so many different specialties, surgical, medical, everything,
0:55.1	EM across the board. And we're also blessed to have one of the world experts, Scott, you happen to
1:00.9	know a few things about diverticulitis. You've written a few things. You've talked about it a few times,
1:04.7	and, you know, so we're excited to jump in. But before we do so, I think we want to share a few
1:09.1	things about what we've been up to at
1:12.1	Behind the Knife. We recently released something called Dominate Surgery. We're really proud of
1:17.7	this material. It's a course that's made specifically for medical students and a separate
1:22.4	course made specifically for advanced practice providers, which is pretty great because there's not a lot
1:28.6	out there specifically for APPs. And the content is pretty fantastic, you must say so ourselves.
1:34.8	It's a true multimedia experience. And so there's high yield text, it's short text, there's original
1:40.5	illustrations, there's tables, there's audio that's particularly useful in terms of preparing for clinical scenarios. And the video is pretty sharp as well. And the whole idea is to teach the art and the science of surgery so that when you get on rotation, you can dominate that rotation. We've just onboarded 18 specialty teams. They're going to start in July. That's really exciting. And
2:02.0	we couldn't be more happy with the quality of the educators that applied and the people that are
2:07.3	putting the time and energy into what we're doing. And this is something we envisioned a long time ago,
2:11.8	is that we could have a platform and master educators would come forward and commit some time and their energy and enthusiasm
2:18.7	for education. And that's played out. So we are just tickled by that. We've also got a five really,
2:25.3	really top-notch pediatric surgery teams that are putting together a 30-part series that's going to
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