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Enhanced Recovery After Surgery – A Review

“Enhanced Recovery After Surgery is an evidence-based care improvement process for surgical patients. Implementation of ERAS programs results in major improvements in clinical outcomes and cost, making ERAS an important example of value-based care applied to surgery.”  Our next surgical grand rounds will discuss the ERAS protocol and its implementation at RNSH. Ljungqvist et al. …

Designing research projects: how to avoid big problems.

by Dr Julian Quinn, The SERT Institute, RNSH Once an exciting new research project has been envisaged and sketched out, a pause for thought is needed. Before any work is undertaken, there are important queries that need to be addressed in order to avoid serious roadblocks to progress, to help ensure the project unfolds in …

Royal North Shore celebrates the opening of the Tom Reeve Academic Surgical Clinic.

On the 18th of October, approximately 100 people attended the opening of the Tom Reeve Academic Surgical Clinic. The purpose of the clinic is to acknowledge and build upon the foundations of academic surgery that Tom Reeve created on the campus, and to provide opportunities for surgical outcomes research and clinical trials in a supportive …

Upper GI/Bariatric and HPB Intensive Training Day – February 2020

The Australian and New Zealand Hepatic, Pancreatic and Biliary Association will be hosting an intensive course aimed at covering the Upper Gastrointestinal, Bariatric and HPB curriculum for General Surgery Trainees. It is targeted at Senior General Surgery SET trainees and International Medical Graduates studying for the RACS Fellowship Exam. For more information about the course, …