Are we failing our patients? Ventral hernia recurrence with Drs. Todd Heniford and Michael Rosen

Join Drs. Jason Bingham (@BinghamMd) and Patrick Georgoff (@georgoff) for a thought-provoking discussion with titans of hernia surgery Drs. Todd Heniford (@THeniford) and Michael Rosen (@MikeRosenMD).  You don't want to miss this one!  This episode goes deep, touching on some of the most vexing questions in the world of abdominal wall reconstruction.  



Highlights: 

Hernia is chronic disease process.  Surgeons should act like it and patients need to understand this.  
Follow-up data is hard to come by and therefore limited.  Studies must be interpreted with this in mind.
Hernia surgery is sexy, which is both exciting and concerning.
"Technology is not useful until it is boring."  New techniques and devices can hurt patients.  
Complicated hernias should be sent to hernia centers.  Otherwise, general surgeons are more than capable of doing the repair.

Link to paper: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/2816986



Link to ACHQC: https://achqc.org/



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