Surgery 101

  In this episode, Dr Jonathan White considers the surgical approach to inflammatory bowel disease. After listening to this podcast, learners will be able to:   ·      Describe the surgeon’s approach performing surgery on patients with IBD ·      List some of the challenges of operating on IBD ·      Differentiate between the surgical approach to CD and UC ·      Outline the goals of surgery in IBD, and discriminate between emergency, urgent and elective IBD surgery