MD, FEBS EmSurg. Trauma & Acute Care Surgery. Critical Care. Surgical research.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Joined February 2009
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Andy Skovsen retweeted
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)
Andy Skovsen retweeted
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
Andy Skovsen retweeted
Still 10 days left to apply!
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Is there something you would like to bring to the table of academic publishing?
This is YOUR chance!
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🤝 We are now recruiting the next intake of Editor Assistants to join the editorial teams of BJS and @BjsOpen
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#LeadingSurgicalEducation
Andy Skovsen retweeted
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.
Andy Skovsen retweeted
📽️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 🙏
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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.
Andy Skovsen retweeted
🚭 Active smoking status and corticosteroid use are risk factors for laparoscopic lavage treatment failure (advanced morbidity) in patients with perforated #diverticulitis.
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Andy Skovsen retweeted
"Treat the disease, you win, you lose;
treat the patient, I guarantee you'll always win."--
Patch Adams, M.D.
#MedEd
Andy Skovsen retweeted
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.
Andy Skovsen retweeted
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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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
Andy Skovsen retweeted
"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
Andy Skovsen retweeted
Ultrasound: “no evidence of cholecystitis”
Op report: “gangrenous cholecystitis with extremely friable tissue. Purulent drainage with manipulation of gallbladder.”
I've seen this many times.
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Andy Skovsen retweeted
How do you perform pneumoperitoneum?
Read about Veres needle in @BJSurgery @apskovsen @BJSAcademy
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19%Veres needle at palmers
31%Veres needle umbilical
27%Blunt acces, insufflation
22%Different way
67 votes • Final results Andy Skovsen retweeted
These are not the same patients. Not even close. And I'm a fan of propensity adjustments/analyses.
Zone 1 REBOA vs Resuscitative Thoracotomy for Patient Resuscitation After Severe Hemorrhagic Shock ja.ma/3WDr3SG via @JAMASurgery part of @JAMANetwork
Andy Skovsen retweeted
1/8 Nørde-tråd🧵om akut kirurgisk forskning. Og hvorfor en bevilling på 7.7 mio kr fra @novonordiskfond kan gøre en enorm forskel for den enkelte patient. Og om hvordan dine risici for alvorlige komplikationer og død, kan påvirkes af sådan en bevilling her.
Andy Skovsen retweeted
Amyand's paper describing the first appendectomy on December 6, 1735.
An 11 year old boy named Hanvil Anderson had an inguinal hernia containing his appendix, which was perforated by a pin that he had swallowed. The operation took 30 minutes.
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