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Ron Barbosa MD FACS

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Non-university level 1 trauma/critical care/general surgeon. ECMO service. PGY-28. Father of 4. Surgical instrument threads. History enthusiast. Robot moderate.

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🧵 showing just *some* of the things that surgical trainees going to the #ASGBI2024 can sign up to practice on (for free), mostly in real tissue models. Here is a trainee doing a vascular patch graft on a pig aorta that will then made pulsatile to check for leaks. (1/ )

🧵 showing just some of the things that surgical trainees going to the #ASGBI2024 can sign up to practice on (for free), mostly in real tissue models. Here is a trainee doing a vascular patch graft on a pig aorta that will then made pulsatile to check for leaks. (1/ )

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Video showing ‘stripping’ of a Jackson-Pratt surgical drain. This is done to try to clear out the denser material in the tubing. This is somewhat controversial (some surgeons don’t believe in it) but others think ‘stripping’ helps keep the drains patent.

Video showing ‘stripping’ of a Jackson-Pratt surgical drain. This is done to try to clear out the denser material in the tubing. This is somewhat controversial (some surgeons don’t believe in it) but others think ‘stripping’ helps keep the drains patent.

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