Scientific Forum Articles Are Published in JACS

Selected papers and the abstract program from the Owen H. Wangensteen Scientific Forum from Clinical Congress 2023 are available in a supplement to the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS). Access to JACS is a benefit of ACS membership.

The papers include:

• Novel Form of Breast Intraoperative Radiation Therapy with CT-Guided High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy: Interim Results of a Prospective Phase II Clinical Trial (Turkheimer and colleagues)
• Duration of Dialysis in Acute Kidney Injury Donors and Transplant Outcomes (Punukollu and colleagues)
• Analysis of Conflicts of Interest in Studies Related to Robotics in Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Wall Surgery (Jafar and colleagues)
• Long-Term Outcomes and Predictors of Response in Breast Cancer Patients with Advanced Nodal Involvement (Sun and colleagues)
• Effect of Surgery on Postoperative Levels of the Gut Homeostasis-Regulating Enzyme Intestinal Alkaline Phosphatase (Duan and colleagues)
• Finding the Right Balance: Partial Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta in a Swine Model of Uncontrolled Vascular Injury (Ho and colleagues)
• Clinical Utility of Melanoma Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy Nomograms (Drebin and colleagues)
• Optimizing Mass Casualty Triage: Using Discrete Event Simulation to Minimize Time to Resuscitation (Igra and colleagues)
• Effect of Oral Chondroitin Sulfate Supplementation on Acute Brain Injury in a Murine Necrotizing Enterocolitis Model (Manohar and colleagues)

The supplement also includes an overview about the Forum by Ali Tavakkoli, MBBS, FACS, and a program dedication by Luke M. Funk, MD, FACS, to 2023 Owen H. Wangensteen Scientific Forum Awardee Monica Bertagnolli, MD, FACS.