@apskovsen

MD, FEBS EmSurg. Trauma & Acute Care Surgery. Critical Care. Surgical research.

 Copenhagen, Denmark
Joined February 2009
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Replying to @EzraTeitelbaum @mj_pucci @amber_shada @EricKnauerMD @htjacks
1) Preparation is key 2) “Slow is fast”! Speed comes from precision, not the other way around! 3) Good surgeons know when to operate, better surgeons know how to operate, great surgeons know when not to operate. – at Rudersdal, Danmark
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Karl Mehta
@karlmehta23 Apr 2025
This is Demis Hassabis. He’s Google's DeepMind CEO, who’s studied AI for 30+ years. In his new interview with 60 Minutes, he revealed mind-blowing facts about health & AI that 99% of people wouldn’t know. Here are my top 8 takeaways: 🧵 (No. 6 will shock you)
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Matt Lee@wannabehawkeye23 Jul 2024
Thanks to @BJSurgery for invitation to contribute to 'Acute threat to life' series with an overview of #sbo, written with @josiewalshaw1 (SBO-ACTION) & @HenryG_Smith (DASBO). Hopefully useful revision material for junior colleagues! #some4surgery doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znae167
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Still 10 days left to apply! Would you like to learn from stellar teams of @BJSurgery / @BjsOpen / @BJSAcademy? Is there something you would like to bring to the table of academic publishing? This is YOUR chance!
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@BJSurgery12 Mar 2024
📢 It's that time of year again! 🤝 We are now recruiting the next intake of Editor Assistants to join the editorial teams of BJS and @BjsOpen 📆 Deadline for applications is 30th April 2024 🙌 Reposts would be greatly appreciated! 😷 Find out about more about this exciting opportunity below... #LeadingSurgicalEducation
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Amazing! 🤩 Thank you @rbarbosa91 for one of the most entertaining M&Ms I’ve attended! – at Rudersdal, Danmark
Ron Barbosa MD FACS
@rbarbosa9118 Feb 2024
🧵regarding the 117 deaths in The Iliad where Homer provided details about the mechanism of injury: Here we will run an M&M conference to consider whether these deaths might have been preventable if the Achaeans and Trojans had modern Level 1 trauma centers at the time. (1/ )
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Operations take whatever length of time they take, and none of people asking how much longer you’ll be are going to be there afterward to manage postoperative complications or explain to the patient what went wrong.
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📽️NEW VIDEO 📽️ "How to get your article rejected by the BMJ: 12 common statistical issues" I discuss common stats issues we encounter at @bmj_latest Please check before you submit next article 🫣 Santa would check the list twice 🎅 Hope helpful 🙏 youtube.com/watch?v=iu4VsEv1…
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“The Complex Abdomen” presentations at the @DanskSelskab Danish Surgical Society annual meeting. Chaired by @mette_willaume @DrHenriksen #menandwomeninsurgery 😂😉
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Great presentation by Thomas
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What's going on here and how would you treat it? Male. 45y. Brought in from home 3 days after lap. Cholecystectomy. Procedure described as uneventfull.
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Adi Kumar
@adi_kumar116 Oct 2023
Training surgeons is stressful and operating is a privilege. 7 pieces of advice to get the most from your trainers 🧵
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@EMERGECph @apskovsen @DunjaKokotovic @ThomasKorgaard @JakobBurcharth @emmapossfelt @LineTengberg
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@BJSurgery4 Aug 2023
🚭 Active smoking status and corticosteroid use are risk factors for laparoscopic lavage treatment failure (advanced morbidity) in patients with perforated #diverticulitis. academic.oup.com/bjs/article…

Laparoscopic lavage for Hinchey III perforated diverticulitis: factors for treatment failure in two...

This study analysed a prospectively collected cohort of patients with Hinchey III diverticulitis from two large randomized trials (SCANDIV and LOLA), aimin

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Congratulations Henrik Kehlet @KehletHenrik - lifelong achievements of ERAS/fast track research for the benefit of millions of patients each year! 💪👏 – at Rudersdal, Danmark
Laura Lorenzon@LauraLorenzonMD16 Jun 2023
Replying to @BJSAcademy
@BJSAcademy winner 2023! #surgicalresearch
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"Treat the disease, you win, you lose; treat the patient, I guarantee you'll always win."-- Patch Adams, M.D. #MedEd
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Please order the CT with IV contrast. The kidneys will be fine. It's whatever diagnosis we are missing with the non-contrast CT that will damage the kidneys.
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@EMERGECph @JakobBurcharth @DunjaKokotovic
BJS
@BJSurgery25 May 2023
Free to access in BJS' May issue: Enhanced recovery after emergency laparotomy academic.oup.com/bjs/article… @bplwijn @des_winter @ksoreide @MalinASund @evanscolorectal @nfmkok @paulo_sutt @robhinchliffe1 @young_bjs
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6/x When should patients mobilize? When should they eat? Do we educate patients sufficiently? Can we make well-placed bets on who will get the complications and can we do anything to avoid them? @apskovsen @wannabehawkeye @Me4Trauma @me4_so @WSESurgery
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Thank you so much, @rbarbosa91 for continuing this series! Great teaching material! A must read for all surgeons. – at Rudersdal, Danmark
Ron Barbosa MD FACS
@rbarbosa913 Mar 2023
My 2nd article in the BJS 'Instrumentalist' series is now up (see link below). This one is on the Mayo-Hegar needle holder (i.e. the 'regular' needle holder). The article is free access and includes both new material and content from several prior 🧵. academic.oup.com/bjs/advance…

Use of the Mayo-Hegar needle holder

Many different designs for needle holders have been devised, especially in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when curved surgical needles c

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Leah@leahmadelineb23 Feb 2023
Today from the department of alarm fatigue:
EMR medication warning: “sterile water - extreme caution for pregnancy”

ALT EMR medication warning: “sterile water - extreme caution for pregnancy”

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"Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray - a place of bitterness and regret, where he must look for an explanation for his failures." - Rene Leriche, 1879-1955. – at Los Angeles, CA
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The Instrumentalist - Veres Needle (here a Quick Twitter addendum by @rbarbosa91 below! 😂😀 academic.oup.com/bjs/advance… – at Rudersdal, Danmark
Ron Barbosa MD FACS
@rbarbosa9125 Jan 2023
One of the less common uses of a Veres needle…😳🐄 @apskovsen @alrodg
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