Are we failing our patients? Ventral hernia recurrence with Drs. Todd Heniford and Michael Rosen

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Join Drs. Jason Bingham (@BinghamMd) and Patrick Georgoff (@georgoff) for a thought-provoking discussion with titans of hernia surgery Drs. Todd Heniford (@THeniford) and Michael Rosen (@MikeRosenMD). You don't want to miss this one! This episode goes deep, touching on some of the most vexing questions in the world of abdominal wall reconstruction.
Highlights:

• Hernia is chronic disease process. Surgeons should act like it and patients need to understand this.
• Follow-up data is hard to come by and therefore limited. Studies must be interpreted with this in mind.
• Hernia surgery is sexy, which is both exciting and concerning.
• "Technology is not useful until it is boring." New techniques and devices can hurt patients.
• Complicated hernias should be sent to hernia centers. Otherwise, general surgeons are more than capable of doing the repair.

Link to paper: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/2816986
Link to ACHQC: https://achqc.org/
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