Can You Step into OR 23? How to Handle Intraoperative Consults

CME Credit: 0.75
Contact Hours: 0.75

Due to our expertise in the alimentary tract, and our comfort with complex surgical anatomy, colorectal surgeons often receive urgent calls from other surgeons to assist them with unanticipated intraoperative difficulties. Calls come from other specialties as well as from our junior partners and can create minutes to hours of work depending on the details. This symposium will focus on routine and not-so-routine reasons we might get asked to step into another surgeon’s OR, and how to be a cordial, effective, and efficient consultant.

(Tips and Tricks, Conduct, Setting up the Case, How to be Effective and Efficient)
(Rectal Injury during Prostatectomy, Trocar Injury During Entry, Gynecology: Dense Pelvic Adhesions, Bowel Injuries, Endometriosis, Tumor Stuck to Sigmoid, Carcinomatosis with Obstruction, Incidental Colon Mass)
Consults from your Own Department (includes a junior partner and ACS/trauma, general surgery: Rectal trauma, stoma won’t reach in an obese patient, mesenteric ischemia (assessing perfusion, damage control), diverticular phlegmon, stapler won’t reach rectal stump), positive leak test, locally advanced tumor.