General surgical registrar in Wales with an interest in incisional hernia prevention.
Cardiff, Wales
Joined March 2023
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Laurie Smith retweeted
The sun is shining and we’ve had a fantastic turnout. Thank you to Mr Khattak for choosing a wonderful venue at Portmeirion and to @CMedicalEvents for their organisation
Great presentation from @hughesaron10 this morning
Laurie Smith retweeted
Congratulations to Louise Silva for winning the Ivor Lewis Medal for her talk on the POLO study psycho-social impact of emergency laparotomy – at Wales, United Kingdom
A fantastic selection of presentations today for the Ivor Lewis Prize concluded with updates on the POLO study and how to support patients post laparotomy
#laparotomy #egs #generalsurgery
Laurie Smith retweeted
Recently had to do this at the start of a run for the 2nd time in 5 years! My husband said ‘once is unlucky, twice is suspicious!’ But actually, incredibly lucky - he was surrounded by people who knew what to do & the team saved his life. You could be closest #learncpr #defib
For #ThrowbackThursday we're resharing our brilliant ad featuring Sex Education & upcoming #Barbie movie star #ConnorSwindells demonstrating the 5 steps needed to perform bystander #CPR.
It's a lifesaving skill that everyone needs to know.
Watch & learn: bit.ly/cprwithconnor
Laurie Smith retweeted
Lots of people excited to hear about South Wales Trauma course to improve skill confidence.
Definitely need to continue this training #traumaskills @SWTraumaNetwork #traumasurgery
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#TraineeTuesday🚦🛑🚧🚨
What should be the specimen extraction site in #colorectalsurgery?
Read the latest #evidence here 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Laurie Smith retweeted
Our new research bestie, Chris, presenting on genetic and biological risk factors for hernia formation.
More great clinican researchers learning from the amazing @plasticfish83
#EHSBarcelona2023
Laurie Smith retweeted
We continue with Prevention, the past and future, by Hans Jeekel. Presenters: Salvador Morales Conde and José Antonio Pereira.
#EHS2023Barcelona
ehsbarcelona2023.com
Fantastic end to a brilliant #prevention session at @BarcelonaEhs from Professor Jeekel on changing the culture. #incisionalhernia
Laurie Smith retweeted
Using a bundle of 8 interventions to reduce SSRI, 🇨🇭Deslarzes et al. found that during🌃shifts compliance with antibiotic⌚️, use of wound protectors and 🧤changes was markedly reduced:
doi.org/10.1093/bjsopen/zrad…
➡️ clear 🎯 for quality improvement!!
#SoMe4Surgery @BJSAcademy
Laurie Smith retweeted
Incisional #herniaprevention will be the first session on May 5th. Drs. Nadia Henriksen, Carlos Magalhaes and Gabrielle Van Ramshorst will chair the eight lectures at 8.30am #EHS2023Barcelona
ehsbarcelona2023.com/index.p…
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Interested in an MD/PhD in surgery ? We have 2 vacancies from Feb 2024 with some flexibility on start dates. Themes include NIHR studies on surgical outcomes after rectal cancer/long term outcomes after EmLap/pelvic floor. Interested? Contact us @TorkiJ @Dukes_Club @ASiTofficial
Laurie Smith retweeted
buff.ly/3KgSIVO Does onlay mesh placement in emergency laparotomy prevent #IncisionalHernia? A prospective randomized double-blind study.
#HerniaPrevention #AWSurgery #HerniaSurgery
Thrilled to have this piece of work published in @ColorectalDis . Hopefully start the conversation about changing attitudes towards abdominal wall closure in the UK #herniaprevention
buff.ly/3LOeUYN "Happy to close?" The relationship between surgical experience and #IncisionalHernia rates following abdominal wall closure in #ColorectalSurgery.
#HerniaPrevention #HerniaSurgery #OpenAccess @ColorectalDis
Laurie Smith retweeted
There is no reason why this should happen. Properly supervised closure with the best evidenced small bites technique should have similar outcome for incisional hernia rate.
buff.ly/3LOeUYN "Happy to close?" The relationship between surgical experience and #IncisionalHernia rates following abdominal wall closure in #ColorectalSurgery.
#HerniaPrevention #HerniaSurgery #OpenAccess @ColorectalDis