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On average, one of four residents spends a year in research after the PGY-3 year. This can be in either basic or clinical research, either at Allegheny General Hospital or off campus. In addition to an optional research year, general surgery residents are required to do research with a faculty mentor throughout the course of their residency and present their work on Resident Research Day each spring. To aid in resident research, residents have access to computers dedicated for their exclusive use.
A variety of resources are avaialble for resident research including the oportunity to partake in nationally conducted research protocols. A list of other available resources can be found here.
A variety of laboratory research projects/opportunitie are also available
Click here to view a video presentation from ASCRS 2003*
( *Video courtesy of vioworks.com )
Click below to view examples of resident research:
Trauma/Critical Care:
- Chylous Ascites Following Nephrectomy for Trauma
Poster presentation at the Southeastern Surgical Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, Jan 31-Feb 4 2004. Accepted for publication to the American Surgeon.
- The Impact Of Hyperglycemia On Patients With Severe Brain Injury
Poster presentation at the Society of Critical Care Medicine, San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 28-Feb. 2, 2003.
- Falling Down And 'falling Out': Management And Outcome
Presented at the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Mineapolis , Minnesota, 2003. Accepted for publication in the Journal of Trauma.
- Efficacy of Thoracic Computerized Tomography in Blunt Chest Trauma
Presented at the Western Trauma Association, Lake Tahoe, 1999
- Implications Of The "Contrast Blush" Finding On Computed Tomography Of The Spleen In Trauma
Presented at the 13th annual meeting of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Palm Harbor, Florida, January 10-13, 2001. Published in the Journal of Trauma August 2001
- Nonoral Contrast Computed Abdominal Tomography in the Evaluation of Acute Blunt Trauma
- Blunt scapular fracture as a predictor of more severe injuries:fact or fiction?
Poster presentation at the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST), Orlando, Florida, Sept. 26-28, 2002.
- Harbingers of poor outcome the day after severe brain injury: hypothermia, hypoxia, and hypoperfusion.
14th annual meeting of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Orlando, Florida, January 15-19, 2002. Published in the Journal of Trauma, Feb. 2003.
- Role of the emergency medicine physician in airway management of the trauma patient.
Presented at the 31st annual meeting of Western Trauma Association, Big Sky, Montana, February 25-March 3, 2001. Published in the Journal of Trauma 2001
- Efficacy of thoracic computerized tomography in blunt chest trauma.
American Surgeon 7(67):660-664, 2001
- Avoiding Negative Laparotomies in Trauma, the Allegheny Experience, Part I
- Low Dose Vasopressin in the Treatment of Septic Shock
Oncology:
- Accurate Axillary nodal staging can be achieved following Neoadjuvant therapy for locally advanced breast cancer
Presented at the Southeastern Surgical Congress, Atlanta, GA, Feb 2004 (Gold Medal Paper)
- Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy For Locally Advanced Breast Cancer Results In Alterations In Preoperative Tumor Marker Status
Presented at the Southeastern Surgical Congress, Atlanta, GA, Feb 2004
- The Presence Of Hepatic Metastases Does Not Preclude Pulmonary Metastatectomy
Presented at the Southeastern Surgical Congress, Savannah GA, 2003. Accepted for publication in the American Surgeon
- Limitations Of Sentinel Node Biopsy In Accurately Detecting Micrometastasis In Breast Cancer
Presented at the Southeastern Surgical Congress, Nashville, 2002. American Surgeon 2003;69:111-116
- Chemoradiotherapy Followed by Transanal Excision or Radical Surgery for Stage II-III Rectal Carcinoma
Presented at the American Society of Colorectal Surgery, New Orleans, LA 2003. Submitted to Disease of the Colon and Rectum
- Transanal Excision and Chemoradiotherapy for T2-T3 Rectal Carcinoma
Presented as a poster at the American Society of Colorectal Surgery, New Orleans, LA 2003.
- Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer
Presented at the Society of Breast Surgeons annual meeting, La Hoya, 2001. American Journal of Surgery 2003;182:407-410
- Pathologic Response to Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy for Rectal Carcinoma Predicts Systemic Recurrence
Presented at the Society of Surgical Oncology Annual Meeting, Denver, 2002
- Preoperative chemoradiotherapy and radical surgery for locally advanced distal rectal adenocarcinoma: pathologic findings and clinical implications.
Diseases of the Colon & Rectum. 44(8):1123-8, 2001 Aug
Vascular:
- Femoral Artery Pseudoaneurysms: Risk Factors, Prevalence, and Treatment Options
Presented as a poster at the Southeastern Surgical Congress, Savannah, GA. Feb 2003. Annals of Vascular Surgery 2003;17(5):503-508.
- Long Term Outcome And Early Predictors Of Survival Following Repair Of Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
Presented at the Southeastern Surgical Congress, ,Savannah, GA, Feb 2003. Accepted for publication in the American Surgeon.
- Value Of Incidental Computed Abdominal Tomography Scans In The Placement Of Inferior Vena Caval Filters
Presented at the Eastern Trauma Association, Orlando 2002
- Gravity assisted placement of central venous lines: a reliable approach to a recurrent problem.
Presented at the Southwester Penssylvania Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2003. Accepted for publication in the Journal of Trauma.
Minimally Invasive Surgery:
Pediatric Surgery:
- Robot-Enhanced Laparoscopic Morgagni Hernia Repair in Children
Presented at the International Pediatric Endosurgery Group, Maui, HI, May 2004. Accepted for publication in Pediatric Endosurgery & Innovative Techniques.
- Robot-Enhanced Fetoscopic Surgery
Presented at the International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society Meeting, Zermatt, Switzerland, April, 2003. Accepted for publication in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery.
- Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Fundoplication in Children
Presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Surgery, New Orleans, Louisiana, Nov 2003. Journal of Pedicatric Surgery 2004;39(6):864-866.
- Mechanisms of blunt perineal injury in female pediatric patients.
Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 35(9):1317-9, 2000 Sep.
- Risk factors and predictors of mortality in children after ejection from motor vehicle crashes.
Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection & Critical Care. 49(5):864-8, 2000 Nov.
- Falling televisions: The hidden danger for children.
Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 37(4):572-5, 2002 Apr.
Microsurgery:
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