Eric Knauer (@ericknauermd) 's Twitter Profile
Eric Knauer

@ericknauermd

Assistant Professor of Surgery-Emory University. General Surgeon, educator. My tweets are my own. How I do anything is how I do everything. PGY25+ @emorysurgery

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Ron Barbosa MD FACS (@rbarbosa91) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Occasional reminder that just because a surgical drain is in the right place, and still has some output, doesn't always mean that it is actually draining everything. When in doubt, you still have to get imaging. This is a 19 Fr round Blake drain. WWYD here? 🧐

Occasional reminder that just because a surgical drain is in the right place, and still has some output, doesn't always mean that it is actually draining everything.

When in doubt, you still have to get imaging.
This is a 19 Fr round Blake drain.  WWYD here? 🧐
SAGES is in Tampa in 2026! (@sages_updates) 's Twitter Profile Photo

SAGES cleaned up well at ASGBI 2025 in Edinburgh, where SAGES collaborated with the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland to educate and improve the use of minimally invasive techniques in general surgery.

SAGES cleaned up well at ASGBI 2025 in Edinburgh, where SAGES collaborated with the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland to educate and improve the use of minimally invasive techniques in general surgery.
Omar M Ghanem (@omghanemmd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

No matter how fast 🤖 platforms are evolving, keeping laparoscopic suturing skills is a must in my 📘 (posterior inner layer in a two layered hand-sewn duodenojejunostomy - Speed 2X) #SurgEd #SurgTwitter #MedStuddentTwitter

Ihsan INAN, MD FMH FACS (@inanmd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Eric Knauer Vahagn C. Nikolian, MD barbosa SAGES is in Tampa in 2026! Elliot Servais, MD, FACS Derby Pancreaticobiliary & Robotic AWR Unit Emory Surgery Ian S Soriano 🇵🇭 Nice comments on suturing technique, Progrip mesh does not slip like the others, do not need fixation at all in my practice. Suboptimal coverage of the defect despite the systematic use of largest meshes may impose adding a mesh for optimal reinforcement. youtu.be/dYNJZUiDtts?si…

Maggie Bosley, MD (@mbosleymd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Putting together my slides for the SAGES is in Tampa in 2026! LCBDE webinar tonight and Eleah Porter MD and Jennifer Moffett MD, MS, FACS shared their robotic IOC video to add. Just published on YouTube ⬇️ best I’ve seen youtu.be/k0wmB1jILUs?si…

Stenting Woman (@stentingwoman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Another wed in clinic J.B. Murphy's 1892 Cholecysto-Intestinal, Gastro-Intestinal, Entero-Intestinal Anastomosis and Approximation without Sutures Button cholecysto-enterostomy Kafka-esk: diary post procedure descriptions Describing pleasures of a surgeon performing

Another wed in clinic

J.B. Murphy's 1892 Cholecysto-Intestinal, Gastro-Intestinal, Entero-Intestinal Anastomosis and Approximation without Sutures 

Button cholecysto-enterostomy

Kafka-esk: diary post procedure descriptions

Describing pleasures of a surgeon performing
Julie Hallet (@halletjulie) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Stable OR teams contribute to better outcomes🤝✨ Each additional case done by same anesthesiologist-surgeon team 👉 ⬇️ major morbidity 🔓‼Opportunity is knocking: ⬆️outcomes by re-organizing teams How to do it? 🆕📝JAMA Surgery tinyurl.com/yx44pm96

Stable OR teams contribute to better outcomes🤝✨

Each additional case done by same anesthesiologist-surgeon team 👉 ⬇️ major morbidity

🔓‼Opportunity is knocking: ⬆️outcomes by re-organizing teams
 
How to do it?

🆕📝<a href="/JAMASurgery/">JAMA Surgery</a> tinyurl.com/yx44pm96
BehindTheKnife (@behindtheknife) 's Twitter Profile Photo

10 CONSULT COMMANDMENTS 📜to DOMINATE THE DAY Mastering the surgical consult is a true milestone in every young surgeon’s career.  But it’s not easy!  It is a difficult transition from lowly data gatherer to mighty data synthesizer.  It is, in many ways, an art form 🖌️.  🗣️

Eric Knauer (@ericknauermd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Anyone seeing surgery consults or calling surgery consults should listen to this great podcast. Don’t lose the lead is a great point. Emory Surgery

Douglas G. Adler MD, FASGE, FACG, AGAF (@douglasadlermd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Evening urgent ERCP...elderly man, leukocytosis, fever, pain, jaundice. Ye olde ascending cholangitis. ERCP yielded a very satisfying stone and lots of pus. Never ceases to amaze how fast they get better after! #gitwitter #surgery #ercp #medtwitter #medx

Eric Knauer (@ericknauermd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Key points: -Patients can slip or even fall off the table. -Make sure patients are well secured with a combination of pink pad, straps, foot board for reverse T, bean bag, etc -Check all pressure points -Tilt test is reasonable for high degree tilts to ensure the pt doesn’t