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BJS Academy Correspondence to: Kefah Mokbel (email: kefahmokbel2@gmail.com) The London Breast Institute Princess Grace Hospital

🆕Oncological, surgical, and cosmetic outcomes of endoscopic versus conventional nipple-sparing mastectomy: a meta-analysis

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🆕 Ergonomics in the OR is a safety imperative
The OR looks choreographed—yet beneath it lie serious ergonomic hazards for the surgical team.

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BJS Academy Afroza Sharmin presents her BJS Prize session lecture “Exploring effective strategies in promoting diversity, equity and inclusivity (DEI) in surgery - a scoping review” from the 2025 Association of S...

🥉Exploring effective strategies in promoting diversity, equity and inclusivity (DEI) in surgery - a scoping review

Afroza Sharmin presents her BJS Prize session lecture from the 2025 @asgbi.bsky.social Surgical Congress.
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BJS Institute The BJS Institute provides a portfolio of accredited online surgical courses to complement BJS Academy. These are delivered by the University of Edinburgh from the Edinburgh Surgery Online team,…

Are you a training or qualified surgeon? Not sure what editors and reviewers are looking for in surgical articles? Want to enhance your writing and critical appraisal skills?

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Effects of postoperative complications in oesophageal cancer on survival, hospital outcomes, and long-term quality of life: retrospective cohort study This study evaluated the impact of postoperative complications on long-term survival and recurrence in 632 patients with oesophageal cancer using populatio

Effects of postoperative complications in oesophageal cancer on survival, hospital outcomes, and long-term quality of life: retrospective cohort study
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📚#BJSBookshelf: Call for submissions!

Your review should include:
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😷 Why Surgeons should read it
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You can ask me which of my colleagues said this to me but I’ll never blab

In truth, it could have been any of them

🏆ARTICLE OF THE MONTH: The other side of the barrier by @doctorhelgi.bsky.social

How subtle cues, teamwork & understanding between anaesthetists & surgeons improve patient safety.

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🌑 "I’m absolutely exhausted."

In the latest View from the Dark Side, radiologist Dr Paul McCoubrie offers a candid and compassionate view of the growing pressures on surgeons.

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Scaling the impact of surgical complications Lay Summary. Surgery can help, but it can also cause harm. These harms, called complications, affect each person in a different way. Today’s medical tools

Scaling the impact of surgical complications
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Laparoscopic anterior pelvic exenteration following concurrent chemoradiotherapy: how I do it Pelvic exenteration (PE) is a therapeutic option for patients with cervical cancer who have undergone concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) but subsequently

Laparoscopic anterior pelvic exenteration following concurrent chemoradiotherapy: how I do it
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Nutritional deficiencies after sleeve gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass at 10 years: secondary analysis of the SLEEVEPASS randomized clinical trial In this secondary analysis of the SLEEVEPASS RCT, nutritional deficiencies were relatively rare after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and laparoscopic Roux

Nutritional deficiencies after sleeve gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass at 10 years: secondary analysis of the SLEEVEPASS randomized clinical trial
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The study showed these are highly frequent complications among surgical patients in Dutch hospitals

Prevalence and severity of pain, anxiety, stress, and sleep disturbances among surgical patients: a nationwide single-day multicentre flash mob study A nationwide single-day multicentre cross-sectional flash mob study was conducted in 29 Dutch hospitals to investigate the prevalence and severity of perio

Prevalence and severity of pain, anxiety, stress, and sleep disturbances among surgical patients: a nationwide single-day multicentre flash mob study
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Ultra-low dose superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticle injection for sentinel lymph node detection in breast cancer: prospective cohort study
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🆕Strengthening the evidential basis of ward-round safety interventions

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🔍WebSurg focus - esophagogastric surgery
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🌐Continuing our partnership with WebSurg, we bring you July's of the month🚀

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BJS Academy How often do surgical patients experience pain, anxiety, stress, and sleep disturbance during their hospital stay? And how severe are these symptoms? In collaboration with numerous Dutch hospitals,…

🛌💭 Pain, anxiety, stress, sleep disturbance...
How often do surgical patients experience these symptoms—and how severe are they?

A novel flash mob study across 29 Dutch hospitals answered this with one-day, high-impact data collection.

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Long-term implant survival in delayed breast reconstruction This article establishes the incidence of implant-related operations and revisions after delayed implant-based breast reconstruction over a 20-year period.

Long-term implant survival in delayed breast reconstruction
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📣 Call for submissions

Include:
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BJS Academy Now, hear directly from two of the paper’s authors, David N Burling and John T Jenkins.

🔍Radiology roadmaps

In conversation with Martyn Evans, David Burling and Ian Jenkins explore radiology roadmaps and provide further insight.

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BJS Academy What’s wrong? Do you want me to deflate the pneumoperitoneum? My surgeon stops what he’s doing and just looks at me expectantly. I hadn’t said anything to him, nor had I really clocked my own discomfo...

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How subtle cues, teamwork & understanding between anaesthetists & surgeons improve patient safety.

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Comparison of catheter wound infusion, intrathecal morphine, and intravenous analgesia for postoperative pain management in open liver resection: randomized clinical trial
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Time to recovery following open and endoscopic carpal tunnel decompression: meta-analysis Recovery trajectories following carpal tunnel release (CTR) remains poorly understood. This study aimed to define and compare patient-reported recovery tra

Time to recovery following open and endoscopic carpal tunnel decompression: meta-analysis
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BJS Academy Alaa El-Hussuna, MBChB, MSc, PhD, presents his BJS Lecture “Roadmap to innovation in surgery” from the 2nd Pan Arab Women Physicians Association Conference and the 1st Kuwaiti Women Physicians Confere...

🚀 Roadmap to Innovation in Surgery

Watch the 2024 OpenSource Research Collaboration BJS Lecture by Alaa El-Hussuna

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BJS Academy Many health professionals are interested in PhD training, and global surgery is a topic that has become increasingly popular. The understanding of what it entails is often fragmented. With this…

🔙 Looking back at a powerful insight from last year…
Uganda has almost 50 million people and 500+ surgeons, but only 3 surgeons with PhDs.

Considering a PhD in global surgery, here’s what you need to know:
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Use of artificial intelligence in the analysis of digital videos of invasive surgical procedures: scoping review There is a growing body of research investigating the ability of artificial intelligence to improve the quality of surgical healthcare, specifically via th

Use of artificial intelligence in the analysis of digital videos of invasive surgical procedures: scoping review
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😷#RCT: Neoadjuvant treatment versus upfront surgery in borderline resectable and resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
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💬 Important work, more questions than answers, among which: What is the best method for borderline cancers? Is it worthwhile for resectable cancers?

😷#RCT: Effect of virtual reality on pain and stress in children during Kirschner-wire removal after fracture treatment
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💬 Distraction methods are known to be effective, but it is surprising that they lasted two weeks. -@jjearnshaw.bsky.social

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