PGY-4 Surgery resident at VCU interested in Acute Care Surgery and surgical education
Richmond, VA
Joined August 2021
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Congratulations to our @VCUGenSurgRes class of 2025 Chief Residents on their post residency placements.
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Our chiefs celebrating Dr. Keller-Biehl amazing match at Cleveland Clinic for minimally invasive fellowship!
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The winner of the RVA @GoSquirrels burger stacking contest are Drs. @AlexSimmondsMD and @mckenziegklee there have never been better burger buns!
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HUGE CONGRATS TO DR. BOYD ON MATCHING VASCULAR!!!! We are so so SO proud of
We are excited to announce our newest fellows! Welcome to the family @sallyanne27 and @KBaecher #emorytrained #gradymade
Alex Simmonds, MD retweeted
I love a good laparoscopic appy, chole or splenectomy (my fav) but I'm old-fashioned with inguinal hernias. Last week, did a mesh repair with PGY-2, done under local/sedation for pt with BMI =27 and both indirect and direct hernias. 75 mins, skin incision measured at 4cm....
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UK-REBOA results:
REBOA increased mortality at 90 days and at all interim time points.
REBOA increased deaths due to bleeding at 3 hours and 90 days.
REBOA substantially delayed time to definitive haemorrhage control.
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#ccr23
Alex Simmonds, MD retweeted
Check out Dr. @FreudenbergerMD publication on the breast pumping while in training! Powerful paper!
link.springer.com/article/10…
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I think the VA is one of the best health care systems that exists.
At the same time, the closest printer to my office that I can get to work is 2 floors down.
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VCU representing at #AVAS2023 great podium presentations! Congratulations to Dr. @DanScheese13 and @JulliardWalker for winning best trauma presentation! @VAsurgeons
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General surgery resident @Vignesh02079389 is on-site at #AACR23 discussing his research utilizing epicardial fat thickness as an indicator of cardiac cachexia in resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
Alex Simmonds, MD retweeted
Another successful vascular anastomosis sim session! Special shout out to @mikeamen1972 @KLavingia and Dr. Fong for leading the session! Check out that #focus 🧐
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WE LOVE EVAN!!!!
Congratulations to @VCUGenSurgRes Program Administrator Evan Ward on winning the 2023 ARAS Program Administrator Recognition Award! #ARAS23 #APDS23 #SEW22 @APDSurgery @VCU_Surgery
Alex Simmonds, MD retweeted
When you take some of the brightest people of their generation, make them work in a system that is broken, understaffed, with a bullying / racist culture- cut their salaries by 30% then refuse to meet with them to discuss terms and conditions, and blame them for being unreasonable- you wonder how out of touch a government can be.
If you want a NHS, you have to value junior doctors more.
The junior doctors operating on your appendix are paid just £66.55 between them. For a potentially life-saving procedure, which lasts about an hour.
Is this a fair price to put on high quality healthcare?
#PayRestoration #JuniorDoctorsStrike
Alex Simmonds, MD retweeted
Our work shows that in patients w/o severe head trauma that have flail chest, early surgical stabilization of rib fractures before post injury day3 is associated w/ significantly better outcomes as well as reduced hospital length of stay & ventilator days
journals.lww.com/jtrauma/Ful…
Alex Simmonds, MD retweeted
I think we too easily lose sight of the fact that to be average, among medical students, is a remarkable achievement
Alex Simmonds, MD retweeted
An amazing lecture today by master surgeon Dr. Farber of @unc_vascular for our annual H.M Lee Memorial Lecture. Impressive data and review of endovascular aortic repair!
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🚩 Tranexamic Acid - it's complicated....
➡️It's widely used for treatment & prevention of haemorrhage
➡️It's in the WHO's List of Essential Medicines & recommended in the European Traumatic Haemorrhage guideline (2023)
➡️But is it as efficacious as we think?
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