In this episode, your intrepid podsurgeons talk to the venerable and famed Martin Zielinski, lately of the Mayo Clinic and currently Chief of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at Baylor. Dr. Zielinski talks with us about damage control surgery. For something so widely practiced and studied, there are few better examples of the art of surgery than DCS. …

In this episode, DuBose and Milos are sadly deprived of my companionship and commentary, but that's perfectly fine because they're talking to David Feliciano and who's a better guest than that? The three of them discuss the operative treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcer disease, which was once a mainstay of emergency general surgery and is now s…

In this episode, which is the second in a row that was recorded without me, Milos and DuBose interview Dr. Kevin Schuster, a Professor of General Surgery, Trauma, and Surgical Critical Care at Yale. I am reminded, as I listen, to my very first question in my very first room of my general surgery oral boards. A cardiac surgery patient with sepsis, l…

In this episode, Milos and DuBose talk to Martin Schreiber, the Division Head of Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery at the Oregon Health Sciences University. Professor Schreiber discusses the finer points of resuscitation with whole blood, including how to get a whole blood program started. He also goes on to discuss how to have two weddi…

Like me and DuBose, Dr. Chad Ball is an expert in BDSM - Boards in Diverse Surgical Majors. He's as associate professor of surgery and oncology at the University of Calgary, where he practices hepatobiliary, pancreatic, acute care, and trauma surgery. We discuss how the desire to master surgical subspecialties is rooted in masochism, really, and ho…

D. Dante Yeh is the Chief of Emergency General Surgery at Denver Health Medical Center and is the author of an incredibly comprehensive multicenter study with the coolest name you could imagine. The MUSTANG Trial looked at the treatment of appendicitis in America and addressed questions that had, until then, really only been looked at in European s…

When it's healthy, it's yellow and fluffy-looking, like a Golden Retriever puppy. When it's sick, it's the stuff of nightmares. Unless you're Dr. Greg Beilman, who hath tamed the pancreas and its ailments. Dr. Beilman is the Chief of General Surgery at the University of Minnesota; he's also an Associate Dean at the medical school, the SVP of acute …

In this episode of Tiger Country, we talk to Dr. Ram Nirula, the Dr. D. Rees and Eleanor T. Jensen Presidential Endowed Chair in Surgery at the University of Utah, and we discuss rib fractures. My understanding of rib fractures has come a long way since my high school football coach taped up my thorax before sending me back out on the field - that,…

In this episode, Milos, DuBose, and I discuss a fascinating topic, Professionalism, with David Spain, MD. Dr. Spain is the David L. Gregg, MD Professor and Chief of Acute Care Surgery at Stanford University, which, I hear, is a pretty good institution. Earlier this year, Dr. Spain and his colleagues published their work in the Annals of Surgery ass…

Appropriate for Spooky Season, this episode focuses on brains...braaaaains...BRAAAAAAINS. Dubose, Buhavac and I talk with the one and only Deb Stein, the President of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST), the Director of Critical Care Services for the University of Maryland Medical System, the Chair of the Certifying Committee f…

We're back! At the helm is Miloš Buhavac of Texas Tech, the infamous Joe DuBose of the University of Texas, and Rishi Kundi from the Shock Trauma Center, who is here mostly because he knows the password to the PodBean account. For our first episode, we talk to none other than Dr. David Feliciano and Dr. Greg Magee about Axillosubclavian Injuries. A…

Dr. DuBose talks with Mss. Eaton, Lidard and Miller about nurse practitioners, their place in trauma care, and how, together with attendings and residents, NPs and advanced practice providers in general can form cohesive and effective teams. The subject is too often neglected, and we as surgeons end up working alongside and depending upon professio…

DuBose and Dr. Ravi Rajani, Chief of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital and Associate Professor at Emory University, discuss the approach to the patient with extremity injury and how to pick up on indications of vascular injury. Talking points include why there is no such thing as a Doppler pulse, and how we tend…

For a single organ, the esophagus lends a disproportionate degree of complexity to management of the injured patient. Dr. DuBose finds clarity in a discussion with Dr. Feliciano, speaking from an undisclosed second location. Feliciano finishes by revealing that Harrison Ford is one of his favorite actors, which is unsurprising given how much they r…

In this episode, Dr. DuBose talks about facial trauma and how the trauma surgeon can be a good friend and partner to the plastic surgeon taking care of injured patients bearing bony and soft trauma. After a rousing and collegial talk, the three plan to launch a class action lawsuit against Stephen King on behalf of clown-lovers everywhere, and Dr. …

Dr. DuBose interviews current Shock Trauma surgical critical care fellow, Navy veteran and pediatric surgeon Dr. Howard Pryor. The relatively unaccomplished Dr. Pryor discusses the basics of trauma in the child, which is both qualitatively and quantitatively different from trauma care in the adult. They conclude with a discussion about Caps Lock, w…

The eye, as we all know, is a squishy bag filled with magic. I discuss ophthalmic injuries with ocular expert Dr. Bennie Jeng and eventually finds the tables turned when Jeng asks me if cereal is a soup. Fortunately, I am always prepared for this question.Av Miloš Buhavac, Rishi Kundi, and Joe DuBose

In this episode, Dr. DuBose talks about the occasionally fraught, always essential relationship between the trauma surgeon and the trauma nurse from both perspectives.Av Miloš Buhavac, Rishi Kundi, and Joe DuBose

Dr. DuBose interviews your humble servant (me) about DVT, PE and IVC filters in the trauma patient. This is, to nobody's surprise, the best episode yet. We finish by talking about my cats and Kacey Musgraves.Av Miloš Buhavac, Rishi Kundi, and Joe DuBose

Dr. DuBose explores rectal injuries with Dr. Carlos V. R. Brown of UT-Austin's Dell Seton Medical Center. Not once does the phrase "damn near killed 'em" come up, but they do close out with the revelation that Dr. Brown has eaten only sandwiches for lunch. Like, if it's lunch, he's eating a sandwich or nothing at all.…

Dr. DuBose discusses blunt thoracic aortic injury with Dr. Pedro Texeira, a trauma and vascular surgeon on faculty at UT-Austin's Dell Seton Medical Center. After covering the detection, management and repair of aortic injury, Dr. Texeira adamantly picks dinosaurs over dragons.Av Miloš Buhavac, Rishi Kundi, and Joe DuBose

Podcast celebrity and emergency medicine physician Scott Weingart (EMCrit, Chief of Emergency Critical Care, SUNY Stonybrook) and EM critical care fellow William Teeter join Dr. DuBose and discuss the relationship between our specialties, why we should be the best of friends and why we often aren't. Finally, the question of the creepiness of clowns…

The tables turn as I, your humble servant, interview Col. Joseph DuBose on the subject of chest tubes, a topic that, like the Mandelbrot set, grows increasingly complex as one examines it more closely. Also, barbecue, Django Reinhardt and Post Malone, if you can believe it.Av Miloš Buhavac, Rishi Kundi, and Joe DuBose

Dr. Scalea returns with an oral history of a topic near and dear to the hearts of Dr. DuBose and my own good self: endovascular trauma surgery. Also included are a surprising revelation about The Boss's favorite movie. Truly, you won't have seen his answer coming at all.Av Miloš Buhavac, Rishi Kundi, and Joe DuBose

Dr. DuBose discusses splenic injury with Dr. Ben Zarzaur of the University of Wisconsin and the challenge of both operative and nonoperative management. Finishing the episode, Joe allows Dr. Zarzaur to vent his spleen on the subject of spelling.Av Miloš Buhavac, Rishi Kundi, and Joe DuBose

Dr. Feliciano discusses fasciotomy, a procedure whose technical simplicity belies the complexity of the associated pathophysiology and indications. Closing out the discussion, Dr. DuBose grills the titan of the field on why the 'Reply All' button should be abolished.Av Miloš Buhavac, Rishi Kundi, and Joe DuBose

Dr. DuBose speaks with yet another giant in the field, Demetrios Demetriades of Keck USC School of Medicine, discussing the management of colonic injuries before ending with the Πνύκα, the ἐκκλησία and what you're missing if you just go to the ἀκρόπολις.Av Miloš Buhavac, Rishi Kundi, and Joe DuBose

Coronavirus isn't the only medical issue in the world, but it's become the context for everything else, including trauma. Dr. DuBose talks with Sheldon Teperman of Jacobi Medical Center in New York and Matt Martin of Scripps Mercy Hospital, who volunteered to go to New York. Topics include why Sheldon thinks Matt should be played onscreen by Zsa Zs…

Dr. Feliciano is back to discuss management of complex vascular trauma and his real love, powerboating.Av Miloš Buhavac, Rishi Kundi, and Joe DuBose

The Boss himself discusses the management of liver trauma, including the value of a big, curved needle, the MARS system, and the problem of naked, homeless testudines. Interview conducted by Dr. John Maddox, current fellow at Shock Trauma.Av Miloš Buhavac, Rishi Kundi, and Joe DuBose

Dr. Jonny Morrison discusses the advent of endovascular trauma surgery, what's worn under a kilt, and what "bawbag" means in Glasgow.Av Miloš Buhavac, Rishi Kundi, and Joe DuBose

Dr. David Feliciano discusses the management of duodenal trauma, explains why drains aren't as necessary as you might think, and reveals his love for The Village People and I'm not kidding even a little bit about that last one.Av Miloš Buhavac, Rishi Kundi, and Joe DuBose

Dr. David Feliciano discusses the management of pancreatic trauma and powerboating.Av Miloš Buhavac, Rishi Kundi, and Joe DuBose