Defining Competence and the Role of the Board

Mar 23, 2017 by in GASTROENTEROLOGY Comments Off on Defining Competence and the Role of the Board

Scott R. Steele, Justin A. Maykel, Bradley J. Champagne and Guy R. Orangio (eds.)Complexities in Colorectal SurgeryDecision-Making and Management10.1007/978-1-4614-9022-7_41 © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 41. Defining Competence and the Role of the Board David J. SchoetzJr.1   (1) Division of Surgery, Department…

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Economic Issues Impacting Surgical Care Delivery

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Elective admit/no complications $7,621(N = 99) $8,719(N = 92) Urgent admit/no complications $7,708(N = 7) $9,343(N = 29) Elective admit/≥3 complications $26,490(N = 2) $19,416(N = 5) Urgent admit/≥3 complications $20,654 (N = 3) $49,251(N = 12) Elective admit/UROR $42,946 (N = 1) $14,316(N = 2) Urgent admit/UROR $(N = 0) $49,241(N = 4)…

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Facing Our Failures

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Scott R. Steele, Justin A. Maykel, Bradley J. Champagne and Guy R. Orangio (eds.)Complexities in Colorectal SurgeryDecision-Making and Management10.1007/978-1-4614-9022-7_36 © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 36. Facing Our Failures David A. Rothenberger1   and Howard M. Ross2   (1) Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota Medical…

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The First Encounter

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Fig. 1.1 An appointment confirmation notice with a map can be extremely helpful to patients Choosing a staff member for telephone scheduling and counseling is no trivial matter. A person…

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Diverticulitis: Beyond the Basics

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Fig. 4.1 Coronal image shows a colovaginal fistula (arrow) in a woman who has previously had a hysterectomy Colocutaneous fistulas rarely occur de novo and are generally associated with a…

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Perioperative Risk Assessment

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Fig. 2.1 Cardiac evaluation and cardiac care prior to noncardiac surgery. *Noninvasive testing may be considered before surgery in specific patients with risk factors if it will change the management….

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Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

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Fig. 4.1 Survival in patients with small-duct and large-duct PSC. Survival free of liver transplantation is significantly longer in patients with small-duct PSC. Modified from Bjornsson et al. Gastroenterology 2008;134(4)…

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Endoscopic Management of Biliary Obstruction

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Diagnostic Primary sclerosing cholangitis Indeterminate biliary strictures Sphincter of Oddi manometry Patient with contraindications to noninvasive imaging Therapeutic Common bile duct stones Benign biliary strictures Malignant biliary strictures Primary sclerosing…

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IgG4 Related Cholangitis

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Fig. 5.1 Schematic representation of the current hypotheses on the aetiopathogenesis of IgG4-RD and IAC. (With thanks to WouterSmit (AMC, Amsterdam) for his contribution in illustrating this figure) Role of…

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