Scholarship
Perioperative Evaluation and Decision-Making, When to Operate and by Which Approach: Tube Cholecystostomy
Percutaneous cholecystostomy tube (PCT) placement is a viable method of treating acute cholecystitis in patients that are not surgical candidates for cholecystectomy. Appropriate selection of patients and proper follow up are essential for the use of this modality. PCT has an extremely high success rate of placement allowing the acute cholecystitis to resolve and plans to be made for the management of the patient’s gallbladder. Options post placement include interval cholecystectomy for patients that can tolerate surgery, destination tube placement, or removal of the tube in select individuals.
Chest Trauma
This chapter delineates the initial assessment of a patient with suspected thoracic trauma and details the diagnosis and treatment of key injuries sustained after blunt and penetrating chest trauma.
Modified Edwards Quilt Repair of a Chest Wall Reconstruction Failure
Case Review Series for the Chest Wall Injury Society
Contacts and Helpful Links

Anna Darelli-Anderson, MEd, BA, C-TAGME
University of Utah
Department of Surgery
30 N. Mario Capecchi Dr. 4N153
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
801-581-6345
anna.darelli-anderson@utah.edu

Morgan Creamer, BS
University of Utah
Department of Surgery
30 N. Mario Capecchi Dr. 4N217.01
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
u0967231@utah.edu