Annual Meeting

Scientific Program

The SWSC 2020 Virtual Meeting will feature over 30 “on-demand” presentations that will be accessible from October 19 – December 31, 2020. View video presentations and interact on discussion boards with colleagues on your own time. Pre-registration is required to access content.

Breast

7. EXPLORING THE EFFECT OF POST-MASTECTOMY COMPLICATIONS  ON 5-YEAR SURVIVAL
Presenter:  Jacob Hammond MD | Mayo Clinic Arizona

22. A DECADE OF ULTRASOUND GUIDED BREAST CONSERVATION FOR MARGIN NEGATIVE RESECTION – RADIOACTIVE, AND MAGNETIC, AND INFRA RED OH MY …
Presenter:  Rakhshanda Rahman MD | Texas Tech University Health Sciences, Lubbock

Colorectal

6. ENHANCED RECOVERY AFTER SURGERY FOR CYTOREDUCTIVE WITH HYPERTHERMIC PERFUSION: SAFETY AND EFFICACY
Presenter:  Bryce Marshall BS | University of Louisville

11. THE EFFECT OF CANCER DIAGNOSIS ON PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOMES IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING COLORECTAL OPERATIONS: A PROSPECTIVE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY
Presenter:  Jennifer Yonkus MD | Mayo Clinic Rochester

Critical Care

3. ABDOMINAL SEPSIS PATIENTS HAVE A HIGH INCIDENCE OF CHRONIC CRITICAL ILLNESS WITH DISMAL LONG-TERM OUTCOMES
Presenter:  Micheal Cox MD | University of Florida

Endocrine

33. ANALYZING THE AMERICAN THYROID ASSOCIATION  STATEMENT ON OUTPATIENT THYROIDECTOMY USING THE NSQIP DATABASE
Presenter:  Cheng Ma | Texas Tech University Health Sciences, El Paso

General Surgery

8. SURGICAL REFERRAL FOR CHOLECYSTECTOMY IN PATIENTS WITH ATYPICAL SYMPTOMS – A CASE FOR HELICOBACTER PYLORI TESTING AND PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR TRIAL
Presenter:  Sonam Kapadia MD | Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

28. MISSED OPPORTUNITIES: VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM PROPHYLAXIS AMONG GENERAL SURGERY PATIENTS
Presenter:  Joshua Billings MD | University of Colorado School of Medicine

30. IMPROVED PATIENT OUTCOMES AND REDUCED COST IN TREATING ACUTE BILIARY DISORDERS WITH A SHIFT-BASED ACUTE CARE SURGERY MODEL COMPARED TO TRADITIONAL GENERAL SURGERY CALL
Presenter:  Michelle Estrada MD | Texas Tech University Health Sciences, Lubbock

34. SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF ADVANCED HIDRADENITIS SUPPURATIVA VIA A ONE STAGE PROCEDURE: A SINGLE CENTER EXPERIENCE
Presenter:  Donna Ayala BS | Texas Tech University Health Sciences, Lubbock

Hernia

5. FIX IT WHILE YOU CAN… MORTALITY AFTER UMBILICAL HERNIA REPAIR IN CIRRHOTIC PATIENTS
Presenter:  Charles Hill MD | The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School

10. LAPAROSCOPIC HIATAL HERNIA REPAIR AS SAME DAY SURGERY: FEASIBILITY, SHORT TERM OUTCOMES, COSTS
Presenter:  Colleen O’Neill | University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

HPB

29. MUCINOUS CYSTIC NEOPLASMS OF THE PANCREAS IN THE MODERN ERA: EXPERIENCE WITH 708 PATIENTS
Presenter:  Maria Ahmad MD | Texas Tech University Health Sciences, El Paso

Other

27. DETECTION OF EARLY ALLOGRAPH DYSFUNCTION AT 30 MINUTES OF REPERFUSION IN LIVER TRANSPLANTATION: AN INTRAOPERATIVE DIAGNOSTIC TOOL WITH REAL TIME ASSESSMENT OF GRAFT FUNCTION
Presenter:  Hunter Moore MD, PhD | University of Colorado School of Medicine

Thoracic

12. OUTCOMES OF ESOPHAGEAL STENT THERAPY FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF ANASTOMOTIC LEAKS
Presenter:  Shalyn Carter BS | University of Louisville

Trauma

1. DELAYS IN SURGICAL INTERVENTION AND TEMPORARY HEMOSTASIS USING RESUSCITATIVE ENDOVASCULAR BALLOON OCCLUSION OF THE AORTA (REBOA): INFLUENCE OF TIME TO OPERATING ROOM ON MORTALITY
Presenter:  Ryo Yamamoto MD, PhD | University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

4. EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT RE-PRESENTATION OF TRAUMA PATIENTS AFTER DISCHARGE: WHY ARE THEY COMING BACK?
Presenter:  Adam Shellito MD | Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

9. DETERMINATION OF OPTIMAL DEPLOYMENT STRATEGY FOR REBOA IN PATIENTS WITH NON-COMPRESSIBLE HEMORRHAGE BELOW THE DIAPHRAGM
Presenter:  Nicholas Johnson BS | University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

16. SURGICAL FACULTY PERCEPTION OF SERVICE-BASED ADVANCED PRACTICE PROVIDERS: A SOUTHWESTERN SURGICAL CONGRESS MULTI-CENTER SURVEY
Presenter:  Barbara Eaton CRNP | University of Maryland Medical Center

17. INCIDENCE OF HYPONATREMIA IN PATIENTS GIVEN LEVETIRACETAM VS PHENYTOIN FOR EARLY POST TRAUMATIC SEIZURE PROPHYLAXIS
Presenter:  Kyle McCullough MD | University of California San Francisco at Fresno

20. WORTH LOOKING! VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM IN PATIENTS WHO UNDERGO PREPERITONEAL PELVIC PACKING WARRANTS SCREENING DUPLEX
Presenter:  Alicia Heelan Gladden MD, MS | Denver Health Medical Center

24. WHICH BMI IS PROTECTIVE IN BLUNT TRAUMA? THE ANSWER: NOT TOO SKINNY, NOT TOO OBESE
Presenter:  James Choi MD, MA | Westchester Medical Center

25. VASOPRESSORS IN TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY: QUANTIFYING THEIR EFFECT ON MORTALITY
Presenter:  Navpreet Dhillon MD | Cedars Sinai Medical Center

31. ADMISSION BASE DEFICIT IS SUPERIOR TO LACTATE IN DETERMINING HIGH RISK TRAUMA PATIENTS
Presenter:  James Davis MD | University of California San Francisco at Fresno

Vascular

2. GENERAL SURGERY RESIDENT OPERATIVE EXPERIENCE IN VASCULAR TRAUMA
Presenter:  Tashinga Musonza MD | ACGME

19. OUTCOMES OF MAJOR LOWER EXTREMITY AMPUTATIONS IN DYSVASCULAR PATIENTS: ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT
Presenter:  Leigh Ann O’Banion MD, FACS, RPVI | University of California San Francisco at Fresno

21. PRE-OPERATIVE EMBOLIZATION MAY BE UNNECESSARY IN THE MANAGEMENT OF CAROTID BODY TUMORS
Presenter:  Peter Layman DO | Saint Joseph Hospital, Denver

23. CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY SURGEON VOLUMES IN CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE: A COMPARISON TO RANDOMIZED TRIAL INCLUSION CRITERIA
Presenter:  Matthew Breite MD | Mayo Clinic Arizona

26. A RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW OF BOVINE ARTERY GRAFT PATENCY: A SINGLE SITE STUDY
Presenter:  Patrick Albert MD | Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center , Shreveport