1. ✍️ Letter from P'Fella - Twitter is better than a textbook. Here's why...
2. 🤓 Study on Sunday - Kanavel's signs
2. 🧐 Weekly Quiz Competition - Round 9!
4. 🎭 Upcoming Events - 15 webinars, events and conferences
5. 🐣 Tweets of the Week - Educational threads and videos!
6. 🚀 New features - flashcard update!
7. 📝 Articles of the Week - what happens if you don't operate on BCCs?
A Letter from P'Fella
Twitter is better than a textbook.
🐣 Twitter is the best medical education platform.
The Plastic Surgery Twitter community is strong 💪 Every day, people tweet plastic surgery cases, questions and educational threads. And the best thing is you can see other people's thoughts, tips & tricks in the comments section.
If you're not on Twitter yet, you should sign up and follow these tremendous educational accounts: PLASTAUK, Canniesburn, Pulvertafthands, JPRASOpen, prsjournal, plasticstrainee, DrRodRohrich.
Here is an example of what to expect...
How to determine a PIP joint fracture dislocation (involving 30-50% surface) INSTABILITY?
— Dr Karan Choudhry (@KaranChoudhry6) April 29, 2022
Instability = SURGERY.
(Ans: Dorsal “V sign” on X-ray). pic.twitter.com/VY7vXUn8vj
Study on Sunday
Kanavel's Signs in Flexor Tenosynovitis
In the early 1900s, Allen B Kanavel (1874-1938) wrote a masterpiece on hand infections. A 6-volume collection just on infections. Pretty impressive. The cardinal signs of flexor tenosynovitis were first described in this publication. They have stood the test of time.
In this 1912 publication, Kanavel described 3 main signs:
- Tenderness over the sheath
- Flexion of the finger
- Pain on extension
You might ask, where did the commonly used 4th sign arise from? It's further down the page. It isn't listed as the main sign but rather another feature that may be present.
Weekly Quiz Competition
Round 9
Upcoming Events
15 Webinars, Conferences, and Courses
- Stoke Mandeville: Limb Reconstruction - May 10th.
- Pulvertaft & Donald Summat - Language of the Hand - May 16th.
- BAAPS Masterclass in Aesthetic Practice - London, May 2022.
- RACS 90th Annual Scientific Conference - Brisbane, May 2022.
- British Burns Association Annual Meeting - Bristol, May 2022.
- Australian ASPS Congress - Goldcoast, June 2022
- Aesthetics In-Service Exam - Virtual, June 2022.
- ISAPS World Congress - Istanbul, July 2022
- ICCPCA Cleft Congress - Edinburgh, July 2022
- ASSH Annual Meeting - Boston, September 2022.
- BAAPS Annual Conference 2022 - London, September 2022.
- European Society of Craniofacial Surgery - Oxford, September 2022.
- BAPRAS Celtic Meeting - Dunblane, Scotland, September 2022
- Plastic Surgery, The Meeting - Boston, October 2022.
- AEC Limb Reconstruction - Virtual, October 2022
Tweets of the Week
Rare photos of Alexis Carrel's black-walled experimental operating theatre (c1920s). Too much light impeded thinking, he thought, so it had black fixtures, drapes and even black gowns for 'absolutely ignorant assistants' (his words!) Transplant history was made here #SpareParts pic.twitter.com/FPwQ7H2YtJ
— Paul Craddock (@pwcraddock1984) April 30, 2022
Technique to reduce a PROXIMAL PHALANX FRACTURE is similar to metacarpal (JAHSS manoeuver).
— Dr Karan Choudhry (@KaranChoudhry6) April 28, 2022
The way it works is different: pic.twitter.com/rBo4yyfBs4
#MedTwitter favorite: a severe case of gout. #orthotwitter #gout pic.twitter.com/Vf3bRYGmrP
— Clayton Nuelle, MD, FAAOS (@NuelleSportsMD) April 14, 2022
🚀
New Feature
More Flashcards!
With this update, there are now even more evidence-based flashcards! Also in the pipeline to create more Anki-compatible cards *work in progress*
Articles of the Week
Top-Picks
- What to expect in lower limb nerve injuries? Qiu CS, Hanwright PJ, Khavanin N, Tuffaha SH. Functional reconstruction of lower extremity nerve injuries. Plast Aesthet Res 2022;9:19. http://dx.doi.org/10.20517/2347-9264.2021.126
- The Business of Plastic Surgery Ellsworth, Warren A. IV, M.D.; Gratzon, Andrew C. M.D.; Friedman, Jeffrey D. M.D. The Business of Employed Plastic Surgery: Creating Your Seat at the Table, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery: April 2022 - Volume 149 - Issue 4 - p 989-998
- How to prevent seromas? David M Turer, MD, MS, Al Aly, MD, Seromas: How to Prevent and Treat Them—a 20-Year Experience, Aesthetic Surgery Journal, Volume 42, Issue 5, May 2022, Pages 497–504,
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