British Journal Of Surgery (bjs)

Mr Jonothan Earnshaw, Joint Chief Editor of BJS, discusses contents of this issue.

Mr Jonothan Earnshaw, Joint Chief Editor of BJS, discusses contents of this issue.

Mr Jonothan Earnshaw, Joint Chief Editor of BJS, discusses contents of this issue.

Deep vein thrombosis: a Leading Article by Mr Gerry Stansby and an original article by Mr Bruce Braithwaite on the subject of venous thromboembolism are published in the July 2013 issue of BJS. In this podcast, they both discuss how vascular units would need to work differently to follow recent treatment guidelines from NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence).

Mr Jonothan Earnshaw, Joint Chief Editor of BJS, discusses contents of this issue.

Mr Jonothan Earnshaw, Joint Chief Editor of BJS, discusses contents of this issue.

Mr Jonothan Earnshaw, Joint Chief Editor of BJS, discusses contents of this issue.

Mr Jonothan Earnshaw, Joint Chief Editor of BJS, discusses contents of this issue.

Mr Jonothan Earnshaw, Joint Chief Editor of BJS, discusses contents of this issue.

Mr Jonothan Earnshaw, Joint Chief Editor of BJS, discusses contents of this issue.

Mr Jonothan Earnshaw, Joint Chief Editor of BJS, discusses contents of this issue.

Gastrointestinal cancer

Dressings and wound management.

Mr Mike Silva and Mr Gavin Pettigrew discuss the problem of acute shortage of donor organs and the alternative use of organs from donors whose hearts have stopped beating.

Abdominal aortic aneuryms: Two articles on AAAs are discussed by Professor Janet Powell from Imperial College, London. Mr Jonothan Earnshaw, Joint Chief Editor of BJS, describes the work of the NHS AAA Screening Programme in England.

Colorectal: The April 2012 issue of BJS has a colorectal theme with several papers published on the subject. Professor Des Winter, BJS editor, picks out two of them to discuss in further detail with Mr Jonothan Earnshaw, Joint Chief Editor of BJS.

Trauma: This podcast was recorded to accompany the publication of the BJS supplement dedicated to trauma.

Bariatrics 2: This podcast discusses the cost implications of bariatric surgery and the main complications that occur after surgery.

Varicose veins: this podcast discusses the treatment of varicose veins. Lars Rasmussen is first author of an article published in the August 2011 issue of BJS entitled Randomized clinical trial comparing endovenous laser ablation, radiofrequency ablation, foam sclerotherapy and surgical stripping for great saphenous varicose veins. Marianne de Maeseneer is author of the Leading Article in the same issue entitled The endovenous revolution. The articles can be accessed at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bjs.v98.8/issuetoc

Oesophagogastric cancer: This podcast centres around the article recently published in BJS entitled Discrete-choice preference comparison between patients and doctors for the surgical management of oesophagogastric cancer by S. G. Thrumurthy, J. J. A. Morris, M. M. Mughal and J. B. Ward.