Welcome to the December 2019 Edition of the
Cleveland Surgical Society Newsletter
~~~A Message from our President~~~
To all of our valued Cleveland Surgical Society members, I would like to extend the society’s thanks and sincere appreciation for your outstanding patient care throughout northeast Ohio and your commitment to the society. We have some exciting events coming up in the new year including Stump the Stars and the Annual Resident Essay Contest. We wish you and your family a spectacular holiday season.
-Tony R Capizzani MD, FACS
Recent Happenings
In October, at the Union Club, Dr. Ronald Hirschl gave a very impactful presentation,
"Building Culture and Diversity in Surgery--Why Now?" at the Union Club.
His message was regarding ways to improve minority presence in the field of surgery.
Comments on Dr. Hirschl's discussion:
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...there needs to be more effort aimed at increasing diversity throughout all aspects of medical education...increase awareness of the different careers that are possible in medicine among underrepresented populations that may not realize they have the potential to pursue those options. --
K.Ruckstahl, a guest at the October Meeting
"Very thoughtful presentation on the future of Surgery."
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It's Almost Here!
Cleveland Surgical's Spectacular
Stump the Stars
January 7, 2020
Register now!
Click Here to Register
The Tasting Room at Great Lakes Brewing Company
Located on the upper level of our historic brewery, this room features a beautiful antique bar, vintage beer memorabilia, and original brick from the building’s previous life as the Leonard Schlather Brewing Co. stables. Guests can view our production brewhouse through the Tasting Room’s windows and observe our brewers at work.
We are inviting your residents to participate in the annual Northeastern Ohio Resident Case presentations and “Stump the Stars” expert panel symposium on Tuesday evening of January 7th, 2020
Where:
Tasting Room at Great Lakes Brewery, 2701 Carroll Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio
Cocktails: 6:00 pm
Program7:00 pm
Dinner 8:00 pm
Details:
Each year the Cleveland Surgical Society sponsors this spectacular case presentation competition. We traditionally have four resident led presentations – 15 minutes each. A panel of master surgeons is selected by the society to be challenged by your resident’s case during this competition.
Guest and member registration for the event can be found at www.clevelandsurgical.org
Please have your residents submit the interesting/challenging cases in power point format to flannam@ccf.org by
December 20th, 2019
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Dues for Active Members are $250 calendar year beginning January 2020
For years The Cleveland Surgical Society has followed the traditional “academic year” of July to June for its programming and assessment of dues. The usual final meeting of the year is in May culminating with the Resident Essay Contest. Payment of dues in the Fall of the preceding year often led to confusion to the extent of dues coverage the following year especially when some members paid dues in the Spring prior to the final meeting.
Beginning January 2020, annual dues will be assessed for the calendar year January 1 through December 31. Dues notices will be emailed beginning December 1, 2019. Dues can be paid through the Society website by signing into the member portal, by the Society PayPal link, by check sent to the Society treasurer or at any of the Society meetings by credit card.
Click Here to Pay Dues
Cleveland Surgical Society is a 501(c)(6) organization. Dues payments are not tax deductible as a donation according to the IRS. However, dues may be deductible as a business expense. Please consult your tax advisor. If you have any questions about your membership status, please contact the Secretary/Treasurer at admin@clevelandsurgical.org
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Cleveland Surgical Society History
The Second President of the Society
Claude Beck, MD
Father of Defibrillation and CPR
Heart attack, or cardiac arrest, became a leading cause of death after the turn of the century. People had always suffered from cardiac problems, but they usually died from other causes, especially infectious diseases, long before reaching the age when heart problems threatened their well-being. As medicine advanced and people lived longer, heart disease became a serious health issue. Claude Beck (1894-1971) pioneered heart surgery, especially operations to improve circulation in damaged heart muscles. He also devised ways to revive heart attack victims, including the defibrillator and CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation). Beck had trained as a neurosurgeon at Harvard and Johns Hopkins before coming to University Hospitals of Cleveland in 1924 as resident and Crile Research Fellow in Surgery. He soon turned to cardiovascular research and surgery and devoted the remainder of his career to that field. Beck was associate surgeon from 1928 until he retired in 1965. Western Reserve University School of Medicine appointed him demonstrator of surgery in 1924-25; professor of neurosurgery in 1940; and the first professor of cardiovascular surgery in the U.S. from 1952 until 1965.
In the 1930s Claude Beck perfected operations to improve heart circulation. When he performed cardiac surgery, the heart sometimes went into ventricular fibrillation. (Heart muscles fibrillated, or twitched and contracted rapidly, disrupting the normal rhythmic heartbeat.) Beck could massage the heart, but this did not always stop the fibrillation and the patient would die on the operating table. Desperate for a remedy, he learned that a colleague at Western Reserve, the physiologist Carl J. Wiggers, had maintained circulation in laboratory animals by manual massage of the heart, followed by electrical defibrillation at a suitable time. Beck concluded that using electric shock to counteract fibrillation and restore normal heart rhythm would work for humans, too. In 1947 he successfully revived a patient for the first time. Subsequently, patients were resuscitated outside the operating room as well; and finally, massage and defibrillation across the intact chest have made cardiac resuscitation available at any place or time. Defibrillators have since been used daily in hospital emergency rooms and EMS units across the country.
Beck and his colleagues also developed cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques and beginning in 1950, with the help of the Cleveland Heart Society, they instructed medical professionals, in less than twenty years they trained more than 3,000 doctors and nurses, and in 1963, they added a course in closed-chest cardiopulmonary resuscitation for lay persons.
Retrieved from https://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/online-exhibits/explore-the-artifacts/claude-beck-defibrillation-and-cpr/
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CSS Member Milestones
~Congratulations!~
Dr. Megan Miller (UH) was inducted as a fellow of the ACS at the Clinical Congress 10/27/19.
Dr. Kristen Conrad-Schnetz (CCF South Pointe) was inducted as a fellow of the ACS at the Clinical Congress, 10/27/19
Dr. Matthew Allemang (CCF South Pointe) was inducted as a fellow of the ACS at the Clinical Congress, 10/27/19
Dr. Jordan Winter at UH received the inaugural John and Peggy Garson Family Endowed Chair in Pancreatic Cancer Research 11/26/19.
Please submit your celebrations and milestones to carnevalmary@gmail.com to be celebrated in our next newsletter!
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Thank you to our generous sponsors:
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prepared by: Mary Carneval, DO
carnevalmary@gmail.com