In recognition of National Trauma Registry Professional’s Day, the The ACS Committee on Trauma would like to recognize our dynamic trauma registry professionals. Their work enables The ACS Committee on Trauma to fulfill our mission to ensure optimal trauma patient outcomes across the continuum of care. Thank you!

Why isn't the contrast dye shortage due to supply chain issues in China, affecting so many aspects of medical practice and patient imaging, getting national media coverage? And how did we get to rely 100% on China for contrast dye?

Good morning, we’re with general surgery, did you have a bowel movement overnight?

Verbal Descriptions of the Probability of Treatment Complications Lead to High Variability in Risk Perceptions: A Survey Study journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger…

I’m a Trauma Surgeon, survivor of #GunViolence, and have been working Beyond the Bedside at the intersection of Medicine/Public Health/Public Policy to make communities safer. One thing is clear ThisIsOurLane Let’s Go — #DoctorsForGunSafety

Holy. Shit. What a brilliant, horrifying cover.

My hope is that researchers will indeed someday make SIDS a thing of the past. But until that time, irresponsible reporting and hyperbolic statements are both cruel and dangerously misleading. bit.ly/3GvueF9

Buffalo and Uvalde have shown us that a good guy with a gun is not going to stop gun violence. More guns won't stop gun violence. Commonsense gun laws WILL. Demand your senators take swift action to #EndGunViolence: Text BOLD to 644-33.

1/ 🧵 School shootings since 1998. Thurston High School. Columbine High School. Heritage High School. Deming Middle School. Fort Gibson Middle School. Buell Elementary School. Lake Worth Middle School. University of Arkansas. Junipero Serra High School. Santana High School.

RIP Dr. Preston Phillips, an Harvard/Yale trained orthopedic spine surgeon, who was shot to death by a disgruntled patient in Tulsa, may your memory be a blessing for all. #GunSafetyNow

And just like that, seven incredible surgeons finish their residency ⁦UW Department of Surgery⁩ ⁦UW General Surgery Residents⁩ and start the next stage of their careers and lives. They are making a difference in people’s lives. Congratulations! You inspire me!

Congratulations to David Flum MD, Giana Davidson, MD (GianaDavidson MD MPH), and the team at UW Medicine, for project funding approval to work w/ hospitals on a program to help patients w/ #appendicitis choose antibiotics or surgery for treatment. Learn more: pcori.me/3BmzBWq

For those that follow my instrument posts, I may now announce there will be an ongoing series in BJS (British Journal of Surgery) called The Instrumentalist. The first entry in the series is on scalpel handles and blades. Access is free, and is here: academic.oup.com/bjs/advance-ar…

Awesome work leading this project and pub in JAMA Surgery, @iyzhang! We so appreciate you & @JoshuaLiaoMD’s leadership and sharing your perspective, & ideas with the CODA team! 🥂 UW Department of Surgery UW Department of Medicine

Thanks so much for the opportunity to share the stage @ #ACSCC22 with this awesome group. Controversy & challenges in appendicitis seem to always be standing room only! Content is online. Check out the launch of our newest The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute appendicitis implementation program, TRIAD!

Our brilliant new endocrine surgery partner, Dr Rhea Udyavar, M.D. UW Medicine sharing her work at our annual UW Department of Surgery Harkins Symposium

Congratulations Joseph Cuschieri!

jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… Our pre-hospital teams work really hard to take of patients in suboptimal, high-stress situations. Still, there's work to be done to provide equitable care, particularly for minority-group patients. UW Department of Surgery Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center Harborview Medical Center UC Davis Surgery

Great article by Lauren Agoubi Joseph Sakran and colleagues regarding increasing death at the scene and lethality of firearm injury in the US. Patterns in Location of Death From Firearm Injury in the US | Emergency Medicine | JAMA Surgery | JAMA Network jamanetwork.com/journals/jamas…