Tiger Country: The Trauma Podcast

In this episode, your intrepid podsurgeons talk to the venerable and famed Martin Zielinski, lately of the Mayo Clinic and currently Chief of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at Baylor. Dr. Zielinski talks with us about damage control surgery. For something so widely practiced and studied, there are few better examples of the art of surgery than DCS. When does one know that a patient

In this episode, DuBose and Milos are sadly deprived of my companionship and commentary, but that's perfectly fine because they're talking to David Feliciano and who's a better guest than that? The three of them discuss the operative treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcer disease, which was once a mainstay of emergency general surgery and is now something rarer than hen's teeth. I

In this episode, which is the second in a row that was recorded without me, Milos and DuBose interview Dr. Kevin Schuster, a Professor of General Surgery, Trauma, and Surgical Critical Care at Yale. I am reminded, as I listen, to my very first question in my very first room of my general surgery oral boards. A cardiac surgery patient with sepsis, likely intraabdominal. Was it acalc

In this episode, Milos and DuBose talk to Martin Schreiber, the Division Head of Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery at the Oregon Health Sciences University. Professor Schreiber discusses the finer points of resuscitation with whole blood, including how to get a whole blood program started. He also goes on to discuss how to have two weddings at once, and why John Holcomb

Like me and DuBose, Dr. Chad Ball is an expert in BDSM - Boards in Diverse Surgical Majors. He's as associate professor of surgery and oncology at the University of Calgary, where he practices hepatobiliary, pancreatic, acute care, and trauma surgery. We discuss how the desire to master surgical subspecialties is rooted in masochism, really, and how that training affects practice.

D. Dante Yeh is the Chief of Emergency General Surgery at Denver Health Medical Center and is the author of an incredibly comprehensive multicenter study with the coolest name you could imagine. The MUSTANG Trial looked at the treatment of appendicitis in America and addressed questions that had, until then, really only been looked at in European studies. Listen as we talk about th

When it's healthy, it's yellow and fluffy-looking, like a Golden Retriever puppy. When it's sick, it's the stuff of nightmares. Unless you're Dr. Greg Beilman, who hath tamed the pancreas and its ailments. Dr. Beilman is the Chief of General Surgery at the University of Minnesota; he's also an Associate Dean at the medical school, the SVP of acute care operations for M Health and,

In this episode of Tiger Country, we talk to Dr. Ram Nirula, the Dr. D. Rees and Eleanor T. Jensen Presidential Endowed Chair in Surgery at the University of Utah, and we discuss rib fractures. My understanding of rib fractures has come a long way since my high school football coach taped up my thorax before sending me back out on the field - that, of course, was the city champions

In this episode, Milos, DuBose, and I discuss a fascinating topic, Professionalism, with David Spain, MD. Dr. Spain is the David L. Gregg, MD Professor and Chief of Acute Care Surgery at Stanford University, which, I hear, is a pretty good institution. Earlier this year, Dr. Spain and his colleagues published their work in the Annals of Surgery associating patient outcomes with the

Appropriate for Spooky Season, this episode focuses on brains...braaaaains...BRAAAAAAINS. Dubose, Buhavac and I talk with the one and only Deb Stein, the President of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST), the Director of Critical Care Services for the University of Maryland Medical System, the Chair of the Certifying Committee for the Trauma, Burns, and Surgical