Submissions from 2024
From Diagnosis to Surgery: Exploring Preoperative Factors and Treatment Delays in Colorectal Cancer Patients at an Urban Medical Center, Ahmad Alnasarat, Talin Darian, Awni Shahait, and Gamal Mostafa
Optimizing Nutritional Support in the Critically Ill: Evaluation of a Dedicated Team Approach to Placement of Nasojejunal Feeding Tubes, Alexander Chen, Jonathan Bucan, Muca Antonela, Daniel Finn, Ryan Davis, and Anthony Iacco
Implementing Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation After Traumatic Peripheral Vascular Injury: Navigating North-South Syndrome, Alexander Chen, Daniel Finn, Bradley Perry, Jonathan Bucan, and Anthony Iacco
Role of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) in Sickle Cell DIsease Patients with Acute Chest Syndrome: A Systematic Review of Case Reports, Alexander Chen, Antonela Muca, Jonathan Bucan, Jimmi Mangla, Wesley Barnes, Felicia Ivascu, and Anthony Iacco
Trends In Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair in Patients 45 Years Old and Younger, Brandon Diaz, Alexander Chen, Graham W. Long, Rose Callahan, Diane Studzinski, and Otto W. Brown
Selective Use of Post-Operative Mammography Following Breast-Conserving Surgery, Elisabeth Ekkel, Sayee Kiran, Alexander Chen, Diana Lee, Thomas J. Quinn, Nayana Dekhne, and Joshua Dilworth
The Impact of Postmastectomy Radiation Therapy on Direct-to-Implant Reconstruction, Elisabeth Ekkel, Yastira Ramdas, Nadine Tayeb, Sayee Kiran, Nayana Dekhne, and Joshua Dilworth
Novel Use of Independent Lung Ventilation After Intrapleural Wound Vac Placement, Daniel Finn, Jacob Mesiti, Michael Tolkacz, Thomas Watson, and Moumen Asbahi
The Effect of Resting Dendritic Cells on Overall Survival in the Hepatocellular Carcinoma Tumor Microenvironment, Paul Hanona, N Jairath, M Farha, Lavanya Yohanathan, Daniel Ezekwudo, and Ishmael A. Jaiyesimi
The Utility of Great Saphenous Vein Mapping in the Detection of Superficial Vein Thrombosis Prior to Infrainguinal Arterial Bypass, Melissa C. Hetrick, Ashley E. Beale, Graham W. Long, Sarvar Oreizi-Esfahani, Rose E. Callahan, Diane M. Studzinski, and Otto W. Brown
Natural History of Asymptomatic Stenoses in Patients After Infra-Inguinal Bypass, Mohineesh Kumar, Alexander Chen, Graham W. Long, Diane Studzinski, Rose Callahan, and Otto W. Brown
Thyroid Nodules A to V: A Discussion on Thyroid Nodules and a Case Report of a Rare Thyroid Arteriovenous Malformation, Mary Townsend, Michael Brennan, Chris Kazmierczak, and Peter Czako
Opioid Over-Prescription After Mesh-Based, Outpatient Ventral Hernia Repair, Kimberly P. Woo, Xinyan Zheng, Amitabh P. Goel, Rana Higgins, Anthony A. Iacco, Todd S. Harris, Jeremy A. Warren, Michael Reinborn, and Clayton C. Petro
Opioid Over-Prescription after Mesh-Based, Outpatient Ventral Hernia Repair (Quick-Shot), Kimberly P. Woo, Xinyan Zheng, Amitabh P. Goel, Rana Higgins, Anthony A. Iacco, Todd S. Harris, Jeremy A. Warren, Michael Reinhorn, and Clayton Petro Petro
Submissions from 2023
Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) for Adrenal Metastases: Practice Patterns at Community-Based Radiotherapy Centers, A Ahamad, S Salenius, Siddharth Ramanathan, and Larry L. Kestin
Calcium Channel Blocker Overdose and Ecmo: A Rare Presentation of Harlequin Syndrome, Jacob Applegarth, Daniel Finn, Michael Tolkacz, and Anthony Iacco
Customized Surgical Treatment of VPI with Pharyngeal Flaps Using Flexible Video Nasopharyngoscopy and Multiplanar Video Fluoroscopy, Elizabeth Boudiab, Emanuela Peshel, Yousef Ibrahim, Rohan Gupta, Kongkrit Chaiyasate, Kenneth Shaheen, Matthew Rontal, Prasad Thottam, and Pablo Antonio Ysunza
Pediatric Obesity and Bariatric Surgery, Pavan Brahmamdam
Complications of Disposable Fiberoptic Intubation Using a Double Lumen Tube, Matthew Brockberg, Katelyn Ward, Paragi Patel, and Roy G. Soto
Laparoscopic Repair of a Femoral Hernia, Alexander Chen, Michael Sobolic, Spencer Wilhelm, Pavan Brahmamdam, Begum Akay, and Nathan N. Novotny
Laparoscopic Repair of Pediatric Femoral Hernias: A Scoping Review, Alex Chen, Spencer Wilhelm, Michael Sobolic, Begum Akay, Pavan Brahmamdam, and Nathan Novotny
Observation of Surgical Patterns following a Cost Analysis Education for Disposable Instruments in Robotic Hysterectomies, Joshua Dean, Gregory J. Thomas, Bradley Perry, Nathan Novotny, and Jay Fisher
Fate of Percutaneous Cholecystostomy Tubes: A Large Scale Institution Retrospective Study, Daniel Finn
ECMO and Calcium Channel Blocker Overdose: A Systematic Review, Daniel J. Finn, Jackson Stevens, Michael Tolkacz, John Robinson, Eric Simpson, and Anthony Iacco
Fate of cholecystostomy tubes: A large single institution retrospective study, Daniel Finn, Bradley Perry, Michael Tolkacz, Derek Heussner, and Mario Villalba
Contrast challenge for adhesive small bowel obstruction in children, Maximilian Fliegner, Daniel Finn, Spencer Wilhelm, Begum Akay, and Pavan Brahmamdam
A Systematic Review of Contrast Challenge for Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction in Children, Maximilian Fliegner, Daniel Finn, Spencer Wilhelm, Jacob Keeley, Anthony Stallion, and Nathan Novotny
Water-soluble contrast challenge in the management of pediatric adhesive small bowel obstruction: A systemic review, Maximilian Fliegner, Daniel Finn, Spencer Wilhelm, Nathan Novotny, Anthony Stallion, Begum Akay, and Pavan Brahmamdam
Decreased Time to Treatment in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Improves Survival, Kathryn Howard
Decreased Time to Treatment in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Improves Survival, Kathryn Howard, Michael Tolkacz, Jordan Reilly, Graham W. Long, and Robert J. Welsh
Radiation Associated Angiosarcoma of the Breast: A Case Series From a Single Institution, Tucker Jennings, Jacob Oyeniyi, Joshua Dilworth, Muayad Almahariq, and Nayana Dekhne
Eliminating Barriers To Prosthetic Use Following Lower Extremity Amputation, Matthew Laskovy, Graham Long, Samuel Osei, Jonathon Murdock, Diane Studzinski, Rose E. Callahan, and Otto W. Brown
Does Insufflation Type Effect Adenoma Detection Rate?, Matthew Laskovy, Alexander Menning, Harry Wasvary, Rose E. Callahan, Diane Studzinski, and Matthew Ziegler
Newly Diagnosed Mental Health Disorders in Patients with Breast Cancer Receiving Radiation Therapy, Bailey Loving, Muayad F. Almahariq, Ronald Levitin, Siddharth Ramanathan, Lihua Qu, Zainab Ijaz, and Joshua T. Dilworth
Novel use of Independent Lung Ventilation after Intra-Pleural Wound Vac Placement, Jacob Mesiti, Daniel Finn, and Thomas J. Watson
Using a Targeted Needs Assessment to Identify Barriers to Resident Robotic Console Time in a General Surgery Residency Program, Bradley Perry
Identifying barriers to resident robotic console time in a general surgery residency through a targeted needs assessment, Bradley Perry, Kathryn Howard, Nathan M. Novotny, Anthony Iacco, Felicia Ivascu, and Ngan Nguyen
Limited Neck Dissection for the Treatment of Supraclavicular Lymph Nodes in Invasive Ductal Carcinoma of the Breast, Emanuela Peshel
Effects of Sex-Specific Differences on Long-Term Outcomes Following Endovascular Aneurysm Repair, Emanuela C. Peshel, Diane Studzinski, Matthew Laskovy, Rose E. Callahan, Graham W. Long, and O William Brown
The Role of Limited Neck Dissection for the Treatment of Supraclavicular Lymph Nodes in Invasive Ductal Carcinoma of the Breast, Emanuela Peshel, Michael Tolkacz, and Richard Keidan
Examining the Role of Thromboelastography in Patients with COVID-19, Matthew Robbins and Anthony Iacco
Intraoperative Pegulicianine Fluorescence Guidance for Tumor Detection During Lumpectomy Surgery for Stage 0-III Breast Cancer, Barbara L. Smith, Kelly K. Hunt, David Carr, Peter Blumencranz, E Shelley Hwang, Michele A. Gadd, Kimberly Stone, Donna L. Dyess, Daleela Dodge, and Nayana Dekhne
Stellate Ganglion Block as a Treatment Modality for Refractory Ventricular Tachyarrhythmia, Jackson Stevens, Daniel Finn, Michael Tolkacz, and Rebecca Clemans
Ocular Complications of Facial Burns in the Pediatric Population, Abigail Teitelbaum, Annmarie Craig, Elika Ridelman, Lisa Bohra, Christina Shanti, and Sharmila Segar
Screening for post-traumatic stress disorder in ECMO survivors, Gregory J. Thomas, Matthew Robbins, Alan Tom, Kathleen Swartz, Diane Studzinski, Rose E. Callahan, Wesley Barnes, Jimmi Mangla, Felicia Ivascu, and Anthony Iacco
A Rare Cause of Upper GI Bleeding, Michael Tolkacz, Christopher Barkach, Elizabeth Boudiab, and Mario Villalba
Robotic Removal of Gastric Trichobezoar, Michael Tolkacz, Kurt Wilhelm, Daniel Finn, Pavan Brahmamdam, Nathan Novotny, Anthony Stallion, and Begum Akay
Serous Cystadenocarcinoma of the Pancreas: A Review of the Current Literature, Michael Tolkacz, Spencer Wilhelm, Diane Studzinski, Rose Callahan, and Alexander DeMare
Optimizing Throughput of Infantile Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis, Spencer Wilhelm
Submissions from 2022
Pre-operative splenic artery embolization for massive splenomegaly in children, Ameer Al-Hadidi, Zach Rollins, Rafey Rehman, Morta Lapkus, Nathan Novotny, Pavan Brahmamdam, Anthony Stallion, and Begum Akay
Impact of the mental skills curriculum on stress response of surgical residents performing a simulated task, Andrew Angus, Kathryn K. Howard, Harkirat Jawanda, Kathryn M. Ziegler, and Victoria Roach
The effect of an attending vs neutral observer on peg transfer and intracorporal knot tying laparoscopic tasks, Andrew Angus, Kathryn K. Howard, Harkirat Jawanda, Kathryn M. Ziegler, and Victoria Roach
Making Our Bed: WOC Nurse-Led Initiative to Replace Aging Hospital Beds to Decrease Pressure Injuries, Eileen Blodgett, Angela Oltean, Kamel Rahmani, Nancy Wong, Sonia Garcia, and Bethany McDade
Patient Reported Outcomes Using the Breast-Q In Latissimus Dorsi Breast Reconstruction: A Systematic Review, Elizabeth Boudiab
Consensus Guidance on When to Choose a Convex Pouching System in the Postoperative Period, Janice Colwell, Janet Davis, Krisztina Emodi, Jane Fellows, Mary Mahoney, Bethany McDade, Sima Porten, Elizabeth Raskin, Melanie Goodman, and Terran W. Sims
Resident labor unions: a mechanism for agency or conflict, Darci C. Foote, Daniela Amórtegui, Carlos Diaz, Brian Brajcich, Karl Y. Bilimoria, Yue-Yung Hu, and Julie K. Johnson
A beast that cannot be conquered: Parenthood during surgical residency, Darci C. Foote, Daniela Amórtegui, Alfred Rosenblatt, Christine Wu, Ruojia D. Li, and Karl Y. Bilimoria
The Realities of Parenthood during Surgical Residency, Darci C. Foote, Daniela Amórtegui, Alfred Rosenblatt, Christine Wu, Ruojia D. Li, and Karl Y. Bilimoria
The Impact of contact sports: A marker of grit among general surgery residents, Darci C. Foote, John N. Donkersloot, Bridger Rodoni, Samantha Baker, Niki Matusko, and Quintin Solano
How Program Directors Understand General Surgery Resident Wellness, Darci C. Foote, Julie Evans, Tedi Engler, and Alisha Lussiez
A Novel Hybrid Operative Anatomy Course for a Resident Preparatory Curriculum, Darci C. Foote, Kathryn Howard, Felicia Ivascu, and Ngan Nguyen
Use of a needs assessment to inform development of a successful 2-week surgery bootcamp, Darci C. Foote, Kathryn Howard, Felicia Ivascu, and Victoria A. Roach
A Multi-Institutional Study of Factors Associated with Pursuing General Surgery After Residency, Austin C. Hammaker, Shah-Jahan M. Dodwad, Christen E. Salyer, Sasha D. Adams, Darci C. Foote, Felicia Ivascu, Sarah Kader, Jonathan S. Abelson, Motaz AI Yafi, and Jeffrey M. Sutton
Let Them Play: A Prospective Study of Postoperative Activity Restrictions in Children, Rachel Harvey, Diane Studzinsk, Angela England, Robert Morden, Nathan M. Novotny, Anthony Stallion, and Begum Akay
The value of robotic surgery simulation for training surgical residents and attendings: A systematic review, Kathryn K. Howard, Hussein Makki, Nathan M. Novotny, Misa Mi, and Ngan Nguyen
A crossover study on the impact on the mental skills curriculum on surgical resident stress, Harkirat Jawanda, Kathryn K. Howard, Andrew Angus, Kathryn Ziegler, and Victoria A. Roach
Heart rate variability in surgical residents performing an educational task under stress, Harkirat Jawanda, Kathryn K. Howard, Rose E. Callahan, Kathryn Ziegler, and VIctoria A. Roach
Eliminating Barriers To Prosthetic Use Following Lower Extremity Amputation, Matthew Laskovy, Graham Long, Samuel Osei, Jonathon Murdock, Diane Studzinski, Rose E. Callahan, and Otto W. Brown
Does Insufflation Type Effect Adenoma Detection Rate?, Matthew Laskovy, Alexander Menning, Harry Wasvary, Rose E. Callahan, Diane Studzinski, and Matthew Ziegler
Mistreatment, Pregnancy Complications, and Risk of Attrition among US Surgical Resident Parents, Ruojia D. Li, Joshua S. Eng, Caryn Etkin, Darci C. Foote, Christine Wu, and Sarah Rae Easter
Obstetric Complications and Wellbeing Among US Surgical Residents, Ruojia Li, Joshua Eng, Darci C. Foote, Christine Wu, Julie Johnson, Sarah Easter, Karl Bilimoria, Yue-Yung Hu, and Erika Rangel
Addition of a team-based competition improves scores on the American Board of Surgery in-training examination, Sean Masters, Kathryn Howard, Darci C. Foote, Rose E. Callahan, Diane Studzinski, Felicia Ivascu, and Begum Akay
Team-based competition improves American Board of Surgery in-training examination performance - A novel approach, Sean Masters, Kathryn Howard, Darci C. Foote, Rose E. Callahan, Diane Studzinski, Felicia Ivascu, and Begum Akay
Improving American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination (ABSITE) Scores Through a Team-Based Approach, Sean Masters, Kathryn Howard, Darci C. Foote, Diane Studzinski, Felicia Ivascu, and Begum Akay
The competitive edge: Improving ABSITE scores through a team-based approach, Sean Masters, Kathryn Howard, Darci Foote, Diane Studzinski, Rose E. Callahan, Felicia Ivascu, and Begum Akay
Team-based competition improves American Board of Surgery in-training examination performance - A novel approach, Sean Masters, Kathryn K. Howard, Darci C. Foote, Rose E. Callahan, Diane Studzinski, Felicia Ivascu, and Begum Akay
Postoperative Hemorrhage Versus Self-Limited Bleeding After Rou-en-Y Gastric Bypass: What Are the Risk Factors?, Elizabeth Odil, Jordan Reilly, Diane Studzinski, and Kathryn Ziegler
Hydrogel Matrix Human Stem Cell Based Nucleus Pulposus Intervertebral Disc Regeneration, Mick J. Perez-Cruet, Siddharth Ramanathan, Rasul Chaudhry, Leon Chieng, Christina McKee, and Aaron Rapp
Spontaneous pneumomediastinum in children is not associated with esophageal perforation, Kevin Roby, Catherine Barkach, Diane Studzinsk, Nathan M. Novotny, Begum Akay, and Pavan Brahmamdam
Outcomes of Pilonidal Cyst Surgery Performed at Beaumont Farmington Hills, Marcos Rosado
National Trends and Survival Outcomes of Performing Immediate Breast Reconstruction for Male Breast Cancer Patients, Neha Sarvepalli, Nayana Dekhne, Mohamad Sebai, and Patrick Karabon
Survey of Clinical Practice in the Postoperative Period: Assessing the Use of a Convex Pouching System, Janet Stoia-Davis, Janice Colwell, Krisztina Emodi, Jane Fellows, Mikel Gray, Mary Mahoney, Bethany McDade, Sima Porten, Elizabeth Raskin, and Matthew Kelly
Screening for post-traumatic stress disorder in ECMO survivors, Gregory J. Thomas, Alan Tom, Kathleen Swartz, Diane Studzinski, Rose E. Callahan, and Megan Iacco
Perioperative Antibiotic Use in Neonatal General Surgery: A Survey of APSA Membership, Ashley Williams, Samuel Osei, Pavan Brahmamdam, Begum Akay, and Diane Studzinski
Submissions from 2021
The Effect of an Attending vs Neutral Observer on Peg Transfer and Intracorporal Knot Tying Laparoscopic Tasks, Andrew Angus, Kathryn K. Howard, Harkirat Jawanda, Kathryn M. Ziegler, and Victoria Roach
Multicenter assessment of cryoanalgesia use in minimally invasive repair of pectus excavatum, Seyed A. Arshad, Elisa I. Garcia, Elenir Avritscher, and Mohineesh Kumar
Penetrating Diaphragm Injuries in Children and Predictors of Mortality: An Analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank., Elizabeth Boudiab, Sammie Lai, Patrick Karabon, Nathan Novotny, Robert Morden, Begum Akay, Anthony Stallion, and Pavan Brahmamdam
Cervical Endocrine Surgery with a Novel Opioid-Limited Perioperative Protocol, Elizabeth Boudiab, Morta Lapkus, Jordan Reilly, Diane M. Studzinski, Peter Czako, Moumen Asbahi, Michael Schostak, Carol Schmidt, and Sapna Nagar
Are Surgeons Still Doing Sentinel Node Biopsies In Older Women, Eric A. Brown
An Institutional Summary of Incidence and Risk of Second Primary Cancer (SPC) after Treatment for Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma (PTC), Heba Elassar, Jordan Reilly, Morta Lapkus, Jacquelyn Pastewski, Diane Studzinski, Fionna Sun, Erfan Faridmoayer, Peter F. Czako, and Sapna Nagar
Identifying Institutional Factors in General Surgery Resident Wellness and Burnout, Darci C. Foote, J Donkersloot, G Sandhu, Kathyrn Ziegler, and J Lau
Factors Influencing Medical Student Entrustment With Supervised Procedures During Core Clerkships, Darci C. Foote, Niki Matusko, Rishindra M. Reddy, and Gurgit Sandhu
Factors Influencing Procedural Entrustment: Differences Among Residents and Medical Students, Darci C. Foote, Niki Matusko, Rishindra M. Reddy, and Gurgit Sandhu
Factors Influencing Medical Student Entrustment With Supervise Procedures During Core Clerkships, Darci C. Foote, Niki Matusko, Rishindra M. Reddy, and Gurjit Sandhu
Factors Influencing Procedural Entrustment: Differences Among Residents and Medical Students, Darci C. Foote, Niki Matusko, Rishindra M. Reddy, and Gurjit Sandhu
Factors Influencing Procedural Entrustment: Differences Among Residents and Medical Students, Darci C. Foote, Niki Matusko, Rishindra M. Reddy, and Gurjit Sandhu
Factors Influencing Procedural Entrustment: Differences Among Residents and Medical Students, Darci C. Foote, Niki Matusko, Rishindra M. Reddy, and Gurjit Sandhu
Developing a 2-Week Surgery Bootcamp: A Needs Assessment of Aspiring General Surgeons, Darci C. Foote and Victoria A. Roach
Identifying Institutional Factors in General Surgery Resident Wellness and Burnout, Darci C. Foote, Gurjit Sandhu, Kathryn Ziegler, and James Lau
Institutional Factors in General Surgery Resident Wellness and Burnout: Identification Via a Modified Delphi Technique, Darci C. Foote, Gurjit Sandhu, Kathryn Ziegler, and James Lau