Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast

Shiva Jayaraman is a minimally invasive and hepatobiliary surgeon at St. Joseph’s Hospital. He’s been traveling around the world talking about his innovative peer-to-peer coaching program for bile duct injuries. Not only is this such an important clinical topic that virtually every general surgeon in the world has to deal with, but his group’s approach to coaching is somethin

On this episode, we had the opportunity to speak with Beverly Blaney. Bev is a psychotherapist who has extensive experience doing therapy with physicians in particular, as well as conducting workshops on mindfulness for Queen’s School of Medicine. We asked her about her perspective on the psychological challenges surgeons experience during their training, and her thoughts on what

We sat down with arguably the world expert on low anterior resection syndrome. Dr. Marylise Boutros (https://twitter.com/BoutrosMarylise) is an academic colorectal surgeon at Cleveland Clinic Florida.. Dr. Boutros talks about her pioneering research to understand and treat the challenging functional issues that patients must content with. We also talk about her move to Cleveland Cl

This is a re-broadcast to honour the memory of the "Boss" Dr. Feliciano.Original shownotes:It’s not an understatement to say that Dr. David Feliciano is a true giant in trauma surgery. Dr. David V. Feliciano received his medical degree in 1970 from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He completed his general surgery training at Mayo Clinic, in trauma at Wayne State Universi

We are re-broadcasting this episode in honour of the memory of the late Dr. David Feliciano.Original shownotes:In this episode, we were lucky enough again to be joined by Dr. David Feliciano. Dr. Feliciano is a world-renowned trauma surgeon and a passionate surgical historian. Today he joins us to talk about surgeons who won the Nobel Prize and the complex and rich history that sur

It is with sadness but also profound gratitude that we commemorate the passing of David V Feliciano on January 4, 2024. We invited our friend Neil Parry on the podcast to talk about our memories and the legacy of this amazing surgeon, researcher, and mentor. Links:1. David V. Feliciano: Contributions to acute care surgery. https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/65/2/E2032. E27 David Felic

We still got more in the vault from CSF 2023! In this episode, Dr. Spoyalo talked about her work on perioperative warming at Vancouver General Hospital. Listen to the work she's done to understand what goes on for warming (most patients have 11 blankets!) and the modeling she's done to figure out the most effective techniques for warming.Another example of the amazing work being do

In this special episode, we had the opportunity to do our first live Cold Steel episode! We were lucky enough to be able to have Dr. Justin Dimick join us at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario as part of our William Ersil research day. During this interview we really delved into Dr. Dimick’s life story and his vision for how we can continue to improve the science and craft

Dr. Haytham Kaafarani is a trauma surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital. We caught up with him after he recently gave a phenomenal talk at the Canadian Surgical Forum in Vancouver earlier this year. Dr. Kaafarani talked about his work in Lebanon after the explosion in 2020, his research on intra operative adverse events, and ultimately on his work as surgeons as second victims.

Do you really have to do that appendectomy for acute uncomplicated appendicitis at 2 am??? Now you have level 1 evidence to tell you!Continuing on with our best of Canadian Surgical Forum 2023 series, we interviewed Dr. Zuhaib Mir (current HPB and transplant fellow at Dalhousie University). He spoke on behalf of his coinvestigators on their amazing work on the role of delayed appen