Severe Acute Pancreatitis

11/11/2021 36 min
Severe Acute Pancreatitis

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Episode Synopsis

In this episode of Critical Matters, we discuss the management of severe acute pancreatitis.

Our guest is Dr. Marc G Besselink (@MarcBesselink). He is Professor of pancreatic and hepatobiliary(HPB) surgery, at Amsterdam University Medical Centers in the Netherlands. Dr. Besselink is a member of the Dutch Pancreatitis Study Group and is the senior investigator of the POINTER clinical trial (recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine).

Additional Resources:
Acute Pancreatitis: https://bit.ly/3D6kONK
POINTER Clinical Trial - Immediate Versus Postponed Intervention for Infected Necrotizing Pancreatitis: https://bit.ly/3wxRLQN
PYTHON Clinical Trial - Early Versus On-demand Nasoenteric Tube Feeding in Acute Pancreatitis: https://bit.ly/3km1STK
APEC Clinical Trial - Urgent Versus Conservative ERCP for Acute Pancreatitis: https://bit.ly/3qlVK1I

Books Mentioned in this Episode:
The House of God by Samuel Shem: https://amzn.to/3wy8Lq2