First Incision

This guest episode covers the essentials you need to know when talking about operative surgery in inflammatory bowel disease.
We are joined by colorectal and general surgeon Mr Michael Johnston who has significant experience in looking after these patients.
We talk about:
- ileocolic resections
- what to do with crohn's fistulas to the sigmoid
- stricturoplasty techniques
- how to handle the crohn's mesentery
- what join to do and why
- when to operate on acute colitis
- how to do a subtotal colectomy
And more!

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