Healthpoints May 2012: Changing Patterns in Surgical Practice, A Brother's Liver Saves Sister, Center for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

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April 26, 2012 Surgical practices are changing. Training, patient care, employment, reimbursement, patient education, and even marketing practices are different from a few years ago. With this in mind, the John Jones Surgical Society will be presenting this month's symposium, Changing Patterns in Surgical Practice on Friday May 4th. At this event we'll discuss simulation training, new models of care, as well as using social media for marketing. Whether your a medical clinician, practice manager, or administrator, we think you'll find this session engaging. Happy May! Columbia University Department of Surgery Featured Article From the City of Brotherly Love, A Brother's Liver Saves Sister When 46-year-old Sharon Lupo started having stomach pains before Christmas, she brushed it off as a case of too much pre-holiday indulgence. But the pain persisted even after the holidays ended, landing her in the local emergency room. Many tests, scans, and biopsies later, she was shocked to learn the source of her pain: malignant epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, an extremely rare type of liver cancer. This type of cancer affects the lining of the blood vessels within the liver and strikes only 200 to 300 Americans each year. Full Article: From the Media Center Anatomy and Diagnosis of Vein Disease Steve Elias, MD, FACS, FACPh Abdominal Wall Hernias Peter Geller, MD Innovations in Vascular Interventions CME James F. McKinsey, MD, FACS Obesity Surgery in Teens Jeffrey L. Zitsman, MD What's New Center for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Cheney's Heart Transplant Highlights Issues in Heart Transplantation Medical ECMO Program Has New Home Online Improving Access to Care: Breast Surgeons, the Gatekeepers to Breast Reconstruction Everything You Need to Know About Pancreas Transplants: Part I Everything You Need to Know About Pancreas Transplants: Part II Are You a Heartosaurus? Clinicians Event Calendar 05/04/12: Changing Patterns in Surgical Practice - Are you Prepared? 05/10/12: Innovations in Complex Vascular & Endovascular Interventions 05/17/12: CATCH-UP 2012: Heart Failure, Devices, and Interventions 06/14/12: Lung Cancer: Update 2012: Screening, Diagnosis, Staging & Treatment 06/18/12: Incidence, Consequence, and Treatment of Low Tissue Oxygenation (StO2) in ICU Patients Patients Events Calendar 04/29/12: The Vincent Miritello Special Olympics NY Miles for Medals Walk 05/06/12: The Lustgarten Foundation's NYC Pancreatic Cancer Research Walk 06/06/12: BlogTalkRadio: What You Need to Know About Breast Cancer: Part 1 Ask-The-Expert Why does an arrhythmia occur? An arrhythmia is an abnormal heart rhythm. An arrhythmia may happen for different reasons: The heartbeat may begin in a part of the heart other than the sinus node. The sinus node may develop an abnormal rate or rhythm. A heart block (delay in the normal flow of electrical impulses that cause the heart to beat) may be present. Any of these may cause the heart to skip a beat, beat too fast, or beat too slow. The two major types of heart arrhythmia are tachycardia (fast arrhythmia) and bradycardia (slow arrhythmia). Answered by: Yoshifumi Naka, MD, PhD Do you have a medical question you would like to ask one of our surgeons? Send it to info@columbiasurgery.org with "Ask-The-Expert" in the subject line.       Columbia University Department of Surgery 630 West 168th Street Box 94 New York, NY 10032 201-346-7001 surgerynewsletters@columbia.edu Copyright ©2012 Columbia University Medical Center, Department of Surgery, New York, NY

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