HeyJaredThe Surgery Room
Cut & Reconstruct is a plastic surgery podcast for medical students and surgical residents who want to walk into the OR actually prepared.
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Neurotization of the Reconstructed Breast — Restoring Sensation After Mastectomy, One Nerve at a Time (opens the original)
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The reconstructed breast looks like a breast. It feels like a foreign object. One intercostal nerve, one nerve coaptation, and 12 months of patience might give her back sensation — or might not. The intercostal nerve anatomy from T2 to T6, why mastectomy destroys sensation, the DIEP flap's thoracodorsal nerve and why it does not naturally innervate the breast, direct coaptation versus nerve graft versus nerve transfer, the sural nerve harvest and permanent calf numbness, the 3–6 month delay befo
Episode 50: Scar Revision — Timing, Technique, and the Scars That Cannot Be Fixed (opens the original)
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The scar looks terrible now. But give it 12 months and it may look acceptable. And if you revise it at 2 months, you will have two scars instead of one — the original and the revision.The healing timeline and collagen remodeling, red versus white scars, hypertrophic versus atrophic versus contracture scars, when conservative measures work and when they do not, silicone sheeting and steroid injection, pulsed dye laser for vascularity reduction, Z-plasty for contractures, W-plasty for long linear
Episode 49: Pressure Ulcers (Bedsores) — Prevention, Staging, and the Flap Selection That Determines Whether the Patient Ever Sits Again (opens the original)
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he ulcer is not just a wound — it is a symptom of a patient who cannot move. Closing it with a flap does not solve the mobility problem, so the patient gets another ulcer somewhere else unless something changes fundamentally about how they manage their pressure.Superior gluteal flap anatomy and pedicle, tensor fasciae latae as an alternative, why flap reconstruction must provide padding not just coverage, the recurrence that results from inadequate post-operative pressure relief, donor site morb
Episode 48: Fillers and Injectables — Anatomy of Injection, Product Selection, and the Vascular Occlusion That Blinds (opens the original)
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Filler is not a simple aesthetic injection — it is intravascular surgery without the operating room. One inadvertent arterial puncture in the wrong zone, and the patient loses her vision.The five danger zones where intra-arterial injection causes retinal occlusion and blindness, the supratrochlear artery in the glabella, the angular artery in the nasolabial fold, blunt cannulae versus sharp needles and why cannulae cannot pierce vessel walls, hyaluronic acid reversibility with hyaluronidase, cal
Episode 47: Browlift (Forehead Lift) — Temporal Branch Anatomy, Hairline Position, and Why This Operation Demands Precision (opens the original)
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The hairline is not where you think it is. The temporal branch is exactly where you forgot it was. And the brow that looked perfect in the OR is resting at the eyebrow level at one month.Brow ptosis patterns, frontalis muscle anatomy, temporal branch danger zones, the middle temporal vein as a depth guide, trichophytic versus coronal versus endoscopic techniques, the hairline elevation that devastates patients with hair loss, and the asymmetry that requires revision.
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