Clinical Training Course: New Horizons in Surgery

Drs. Jon A. Van Heerden, James Fleshman, and Scott A. Strong

List issues to consider when bringing a new technology into practice; Discuss the role of evidence-based medicine in the introduction of new technologies into clinical practice; Describe ways to prevent or minimize anastomotic leaks; Explain why bowel preparation before gastrointestinal surgery is probably unnecessary; and Identify the situations on which computed tomography colonography and magnetic resonance enterography have shown the greatest benefit of colorectal surgery candidates.