Highlights 2/2 - During liver transplantation, clot strength less than 45 mm during the anheptic and early reperfusion is associated with greater than 20 units of intraoperative blood loss and 80% return rate to the operating room.

Breaking News! 🚨 U.S. News & World Report today announced the top medical schools in the country and the CU Department of Surgery was ranked for the first time, listed No. 23 in Surgery! Congratulations to our faculty, staff and students who made this possible. #BestMedicalSchools

Does pre-operative counselling of the donor improve immediate and short-term outcomes after living liver donation? An international multi-center consensus paper with Megan Adams MD CU Department of Surgery ERAS4OLT @AndacogluOya Elizabeth Pomfret, et al. Read: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35343601/

Important viewpoint from #NALLDIG . How you present data is critical. #livingliverdonation is a safe and important option for those in need of liver transplant.

📣National Donate Life Month starts today!💙💚 The theme for Donate Life Month 2022 is to “bee” a donor. Inspired by the vital role that bees play in sustaining life! “Bee” a donor: donatelifecolorado.org Donate Life America CU School of Medicine

(2/2) A great boost for the team and a huge huge thank you to all who believed in this dream, supported us along the way and made it possible NHS Lothian NHS National Services Scotland Scottish Government Scot Gov Health Scotland Organ Donation Services Team @Hunt11Fiona Lynsey Farwell Lesley Coutts 💙 Anya Adair Chris Johnston Ahmed Sherif OrganOx

April is National Donate life month. What can we doing better to increase public awareness for not only deceased donation but living donation? ILTS Liver/Intestinal Community of Practice - AST AASLD Mayo Clinic Transplant United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)

This made me laugh…and then cry inside a little bit 😵‍💫

Welcome to Dr. Schulick, Chair of Colorado Univ. Surgery, here to give the annual Dallas B. Phemister Lecture. Dr. Phemister founded our Department, and we are excited to finally have Dr. Shulick here on this day in person after 2 years of waiting! CU Surgical Oncology

Rachel Davis, MD Associate Professor of Psychiatry CU School of Medicine and Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs donated the right lobe of her liver to a stranger as a way to pursue her life values and purpose! #LivingDonorDay Read her complete story here: bit.ly/35KgJTR

What a story! #livingdonorday

Today is living donor day! Let’s celebrate & thank all living donors for their lifesaving generosity! #livingdonorday #donatelifemonth Donate Life America Children's Hospital Colorado CU Transplant Center CU Anschutz Medical Campus

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“Fifty percent of the transplants we did last year were on account of alcohol.” Dr. James Burton, transplant hepatologist, shares his observations here: bit.ly/3LMg57D

A-NRP in cDCD liver transplant - 👀 out in this month’s American Journal of Transplantation and article of impact in Transplant Journal Watch: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj… Organización Nacional de Trasplantes SETrasplante SETH SCT-Fundació Catalana de Trasplantament

So thrilled for my dear friend ⁦Elizabeth Pomfret⁩ and the rest of this incredibly talented group! So great to see such depth of experience and diversity. ⁦ASTS⁩ is in good hands!

A huge Congratulations to Dr. Pomfret Elizabeth Pomfret for being appointed President-Elect ASTS!!

Jason W Denbo American College of Surgeons Annals of Surgery Niraj J. Gusani, MD 🇺🇸 Syed A. Ahmad Julio Mayol Society of Surgical Oncology Jennifer F Tseng MD MPH UTSW Surgery Residents Prof Steve Wigmore Mark Soliman, MD, MBA Attending for sure. It’s my name on the chart and patient’s life as my responsibility. 16 years in as an attending…still have anxiety and it is appropriate. Stay humble. When you get overconfident bad shit happens….(and it has)

I lost a patient today Sad: Healthy, teetotaler Sadder: Died of acute liver failure Saddest: Cause is KERAGLO,herbal drug for hair growth Worst: He was only 25y KERAGLO has borage seed oil & greentea extract, leads to liver failure Doctors need an education Not patients 🙏

TheLiverDoc I've transplanted twice for black cohosh and once for turmeric (although she also had NAFLD). Also have transplanted for Doxy twice and Augmentin once. And a dozen times for Tylenol.