Wound Healing
How do wounds heal? What stitch would you use to close a wound and why? When would you not close a wound? What do you do when a wound looks infected? Seem like easy questions but would you be able to ...
4 Tammi 201413min
Holiday Message
Happy Holidays from all at School of Surgery
22 Joulu 201328s
Surgical Scars: A field guide
You're standing in your surgical examination looking at a patient's abdomen. The examiner asks you to comment on the scars you can see. What are you going to say? Help is at hand...Keaton Jones takes ...
14 Joulu 201311min
Oliguria: what you're going to do when you're called to the ward to see someone with low urine output
"Doctor, Mr Jones's urine output has been low for the last 3 hours, can you come to review him please?" This is a common call to trainees on surgical wards. But what is a low urine output, why is is l...
6 Joulu 201311min
Urology: Transitional cell carcinoma
In a previous podcast you've seen how to to a laparoscopic nephrouterectomy for TCC. Now you can learn about transitional cell carcinoma itself. Susan Clayton discusses epidemiology, aetiology, presen...
29 Marras 20137min
Medical Statistics II: Descriptive Statistics and Standard Scores
Do you have an average number of legs? Most likely you have slightly more than the mean number of lower limbs if you think about it. It is important to be able to describe data properly so that we con...
27 Marras 201319min
Post op surgical problems I: What to do if you are called to see a patient with hypotension after surgery
In the first of a new series on common problems seen on the surgical ward after an operation, Jennifer Murphy discusses hypotension in the post operative period with Daniel Couch. The symptoms, signs ...
16 Marras 201315min
How to do a laparoscopic nephroureterectomy
Susan Clayton takes you through laparoscopic removal of the kidney and ureter to treat transitional cell carcinoma. There is a step by step commentary and operative footage of this commonly performed ...
9 Marras 201310min
