Looking for opportunities in Africa, Asia, and South America to collaborate with medical schools and surgery residencies to teach trauma, conflict surgery, and humanitarian surgical care. If your organization is interested contact me at jeff@globaloutreachdoctors.org
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I’m baaack!. Been a few years. I am starting a series of podcasts on critical decision making for general surgeons and intensivists. The podcast would be useful to anyone who is trying to figure out how surgeons minds work when they are asked to come to the ICU to evaluate a patient who may need surgery.
My second book “Trauma Center Performance Improvement” is available online today and print edition will be at Amazon soon. First book has sold 3,400 digital copies as of today. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030710477
This is the first of a series of podcasts to orient our own PGY-1s to trauma care at our Level 1 Trauma Center. This is necessary due to Covid and the postponement of most ATLS courses. I am posting this in the hopes it will be of use to all listeners.
My book “Trauma Centers: A Quick Guide” is now available at the Springer Verlag website at https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030346065The paperback will be available on 2-20-20.I tried to put on paper the important things I learned running a Level 1 trauma center for 25 years, and what I learned doing over 175 trauma center site visits. Hope you’ll consider […]
My new book Trauma Centers: A Quick Guide is being released on February 20 by Springer Verlag. It discusses all the issues regarding trauma center management, performance improvement, and preparing for a site visit. There is also useful information regarding the types of critical patients that trauma centers care for and what is necessary to […]
Discussion of the trial and tribulations of moving from intern to team leader and consultant.
I present a no-win scenario. No matter what you do the patient is going to get sicker. Spans the time from 911 call to the ICU. Guest spot from Chewbacca and music from an album I made in the 90’s. Thanks for listening. JY
Discussion of the positives and negatives of experience, and the various tools to use to gain clinical proficiency when actual clinical experience is lacking. A tune I wrote and recorded at the beginning and end. Thanks for listening.
Discussion of some complex trauma resuscitation and evaluation situations. Hope you find it useful. JY
Sorry its been so long. I will do new podcasts talking about complex ICU and trauma clinical situations and my algorithms and beliefs on how you should handle them. Me on sax trying to do justice to My One and Only Love. Happy New Year! JY
Optimaltraumacare.com For several months I’ve been putting together a book on how to run a trauma center. I have created a new website optimaltraumacare.com where I will post writings on trauma center operations, PI, site visit preparation, etc. For those of you working in trauma centers, I hope that you will visit the site. Thanks. […]
I wrote a monograph a few years ago on how to improve clinical care. I will post sections on this website. Hope you find it interesting. Also considering making it into podcasts. Chapter 1: What is Error? When I lecture medical students in the months before they graduate, I often begin with the following statement: […]