Abdominal emergencies in children - free paper

Please access this link to read the full text paper on "Contemporary management of acute abdominal emergencies in infants and children" just published in the BJS and free to access online.

The paper deals with update info on acute appendicitis, hernia, intestinal malrotation and/or strangulation, pyloric stenosis, intussusception and a handful of other conditions that may present to the general surgeon on call.

Illustration of malrotation, from the paper by van Heurn and colleagues in the BJS. Source: 
British Journal of Surgery 29 NOV 2013 DOI: 10.1002/bjs.9335http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bjs.9335/full#bjs9335-fig-0001

Coming up: Emergency surgery issue in the BJS

A collective sieries on emergency surgery conditions will be launched in the January issue of the BJS. All papers will be free to access, either via PubMed searches or direct through the BJS website (or, most conveniently probably by downloading the BJS app for iPad, makes it easier to read on your tablet).

A leader to introduce the series has recently been launched and can be accessed here.

I will try to introduce some of the papers as they are real eased early online - I believe there are plenty material that will be of great use and interest to a worldwide readership.

Excited to have your response as we go!

Cheers,

Kjetil

Centenary Talks given at ASGBI, Glasgow and ACS, Washington 2013

Related to the BJS centenary a symposium was held at the International Surgical Congress of the Associations of Surgeons of Great Britain & Ireland in Glasgow, May 2013. You can find all the lectures to the ASGBI 2013 BJS Symposium: 100 years of BJS by going to the BJS website.

Also, a co-anniversary was held in Washington DC, marking the 100 years of both the BJS and the American College of Surgeons. The symposium can be view in entirety here.