FractureLine

Welcome to FractureLine: the official weekly news feed from the Chest Wall Injury Society, where we will listen to all the bottom-line CWIS updates, shout-outs, fun facts, and weekly banter! This week, the cast is in Gottingen, Germany attending a special chest wall repair symposium led by Dr. Christopher Spering (Universitätsmedizin Göttingen). We are also joined by Dr. Stefan Schulz-Drost (Helio...

Welcome to FractureLine: the official weekly news feed from the Chest Wall Injury Society, where we will listen to all the bottom-line CWIS updates, shout-outs, fun facts, and weekly banter! This week, the cast reviews the recent publications of Dr. Bauman, discusses the imminent government shutdown (we can hardly BEAR it!), and revisits one monument to Ashton Kutcher's actorial greatness. And in...

Welcome to FractureLine: the official weekly news feed from the Chest Wall Injury Society, where we will listen to all the bottom-line CWIS updates, shout-outs, fun facts, and weekly banter! This week, the cast gets to know Dr. Anne Schenderlein (PGY-3, Helios Clinics Schwerin, Germany). Dr. Schenderlein is the winner of CWIS International's resident project award and is automatically included in...

Welcome to FractureLine: the official weekly news feed from the Chest Wall Injury Society, where we will listen to all the bottom-line CWIS updates, shout-outs, fun facts, and weekly banter! This week, the cast dives deep into what struck them most about being in Amsterdam for a fully packed 48 (or so) hours for CWIS International! This signals CWIS's official dive into hosting international assem...

Welcome to FractureLine: the official weekly news feed from the Chest Wall Injury Society, where we will listen to all the bottom-line CWIS updates, shout-outs, fun facts, and weekly banter! This week the cast walks through the process of being a highlighted CWIS member! We have taken the scariness out of being front and center to be introduced to the wild rib-fixin' world. Plus, we get to know ou...

Welcome to FractureLine: the official weekly news feed from the Chest Wall Injury Society, where we will listen to all the bottom-line CWIS updates, shout-outs, fun facts, and weekly banter! This week the cast catches up with each other, and **WARNING: There is no significant rib fixin' to had in this episode! Listen at your own risk!** We talk about a potential new opportunity for listener involv...

Welcome to FractureLine: the official weekly news feed from the Chest Wall Injury Society, where we will listen to all the bottom-line CWIS updates, shout-outs, fun facts, and weekly banter! This week, we chatted with Dr. Gina Shirah, MD, FACS (HonorHealth, Phoenix, AZ). Dr. Shirah is a member who practices Burn Surgery, Critical Care, and, yes, even Chest Wall Reconstruction! She brings years of...

Welcome to FractureLine: the official weekly news feed from the Chest Wall Injury Society, where we will listen to all the bottom-line CWIS updates, shout-outs, fun facts, and weekly banter! This week, we chat with Dr. Edward Black, MBBS, Bsc, FRCS (CTh) from Tawam Hospital, Al Ain Region Abu dhabi, UAE. Dr. Black is another member who has been with CWIS since the very first meeting (the story of...

Welcome to FractureLine: the official weekly news feed from the Chest Wall Injury Society, where we will listen to all the bottom-line CWIS updates, shout-outs, fun facts, and weekly banter! This week, we chat with Dr. Babak Sarani, MD, FACS, FCCM (George Washington University Hospital, Washington, DC), the Director of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery for GWUH as he is the incoming President of CWIS....

Welcome to FractureLine: the official weekly news feed from the Chest Wall Injury Society, where we will listen to all the bottom-line CWIS updates, shout-outs, fun facts, and weekly banter! This week, we chat with Dr. Evert Eriksson, MD (Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC) about his longtime love of surgical rib fixation and a new love in fixin' ribs smoker-style. Herein lies so...

Welcome to FractureLine: the official weekly news feed from the Chest Wall Injury Society, where we will listen to all the bottom-line CWIS updates, shout-outs, fun facts, and weekly banter! This week, we chat with Dr. Jaron Butterfield, MD (Prisma Health Midlands, Columbia, SC) about his case report entitled "Cryoablation versus rib plating: Is the real problem pain control or chest wall instabil...

Welcome to FractureLine: the official weekly news feed from the Chest Wall Injury Society, where we will listen to all the bottom-line CWIS updates, shout-outs, fun facts, and weekly banter! This week, we go COMPLETELY off the rails! **WARNING: There is no rib fixin' to had in this episode! Listen at your own risk!** We talk about the College World Series of Baseball, The state of Florida, SarahAn...

Welcome to FractureLine: the official weekly news feed from the Chest Wall Injury Society, where we will listen to all the bottom-line CWIS updates, shout-outs, fun facts, and weekly banter! This week, we take the path less traveled. We met with Trent White, Dr. White's son. He is familiar to some within the society. Still, we got a chance to hear about his love of the outdoors (He is an Outdoor R...

Welcome to FractureLine: the official weekly news feed from the Chest Wall Injury Society, where we will listen to all the bottom-line CWIS updates, shout-outs, fun facts, and weekly banter! This week, we meet with CWIS's brand new President, Dr. Andrew Doben. He is well known and highly respected within the society, and we got a chance to hear his goals for this year and the new directions CWIS w...

Welcome to FractureLine: the official weekly news feed from the Chest Wall Injury Society, where we will listen to all the bottom-line CWIS updates, shout-outs, fun facts, and weekly banter! This week we meet the Italian surgical dynamic duo from Surgical Pizza (https://surgicalpizza.org), Dr. Gabriele Bellio, MD (Piove di Sacco Hospital, Piove di Sacco (PD), Italy), and Dr. Enrico Marrano, MD (Ge...

Welcome to FractureLine: the official weekly news feed from the Chest Wall Injury Society, where we will listen to all the bottom-line CWIS updates, shout-outs, fun facts, and weekly banter! This week we meet and discuss the future directions of CWIS's research, our wildest dreams for research, and upcoming events, including Case Review on 5/24 @ 7 AM MST & Webinar on 5/31, time TBD! Come join the...

Welcome to FractureLine: the official weekly news feed from the Chest Wall Injury Society, where we will listen to all the bottom-line CWIS updates, shout-outs, fun facts, and weekly banter! This week we meet with Drs. Kyle Schmitt (Aventura Hospital and Medical Center) & Bradley Faliks (HonorHealth Surgical and Trauma Specialists) who are taking over the monthly Case Review Series for CWIS! Herei...

Welcome to FractureLine: the official weekly news feed from the Chest Wall Injury Society, where we will listen to all the bottom-line CWIS updates, shout-outs, fun facts, and weekly banter! This week we meet again with Dr. Patrick Greiffenstein, CWIS's Patient Outreach Committee Chair and Trauma/Critical Care Surgeon in NOLA at University Medical Center New Orleans.  Count down the days until the...

Welcome to FractureLine: the official weekly news feed from the Chest Wall Injury Society, where we will listen to all the bottom-line CWIS updates, shout-outs, fun facts, and weekly banter! This week we have been introduced to Dr. Hunter Ross, CWIS's newest member and a fellow in Orthopedic trauma in Detriot, MI, at Detroit Medical Center! We also discussed more exciting summit details! T-minus 1...

Welcome to FractureLine: the official weekly news feed from the Chest Wall Injury Society, where we will listen to all the bottom-line CWIS updates, shout-outs, fun facts, and weekly banter! This week we hashed out some fun summit details and more with Dr John Green from Atrium Health in Charlotte... 

Welcome to FractureLine: the official weekly news feed from the Chest Wall Injury Society, where we will listen to all the bottom-line CWIS updates, shout-outs, fun facts, and weekly banter! This week we teased some fun topics coming up at the summit: slipped rib syndrome, frankenplating, PT demonstrations and more...

Welcome to FractureLine: the official weekly news feed from the Chest Wall Injury Society, where we will listen to all the bottom-line CWIS updates, shout-outs, fun facts, and weekly banter! This week we discussed CWIS's newest endeavor, a look at Less Than Perfect (LTP) rib fixation. This is our latest study and is just about to start (more to follow at CWISummit 2023!). Details about CWIS's futu...

Welcome to FractureLine: the official weekly news feed from the Chest Wall Injury Society, where we will listen to all the bottom-line CWIS updates, shout-outs, fun facts, and weekly banter! This week we sat back and took time to reflect on our paths as the 2023 Match results came out and discussed our roles in mentoring the next generation of (chest-wall) Surgeons. 

Welcome to FractureLine: the official weekly news feed from the Chest Wall Injury Society; where we will listen to all the bottom line CWIS updates, shout outs, fun facts and weekly banter! This week we sat down with Dr Michael Gooseman, thoracic surgeon at Hull University. 

Welcome to FractureLine: the official weekly news feed from the Chest Wall Injury Society; where we will listen to all the bottom line CWIS updates, shout outs, fun facts and weekly banter! This week we sat down with Dr Daniel Cuadrado, thoracic surgeon in the US Army!