Dr. Charles (Sarel) Vorster
13 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 23, 2019 by Dr. Charles (Sarel) Vorster · across every show →
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Dec 23, 2019 neutral
Vorster: Seasoned professionals cannot avoid or unlearn the adrenaline rush
“First of all, our emotions and our adrenaline rush and our adrenal glands and all of these things, the stress response, the fight and flight response, you can't avoid these things. So no matter who you are and how expert you are at what you do, you will feel i…”
Dec 23, 2019
Dec 23, 2019
Vorster reviews brain scans and equipment with patients before elective surgery
“My approach once again is to get everybody on the same page and, you know, review the scans. I like showing people, nobody's really seen a brain scan. So I show them on the scan. I point out the abnormality and I point out, you know, how we would get there and…”
Dec 23, 2019 positive
Vorster: Neurosurgery must blend "eminence-based" historical experience with emerging data
“I like calling that eminence-based medicine rather than evidence-based. So eminence-based in my mind means if somebody with a lot of experience and skill did something, we can learn from that. We would be foolish to ignore that. On the other hand, we have to m…”
Dec 23, 2019
Vorster talks to anesthetized patients during surgery to maintain focus
“Sometimes when I operate on people, I talk to them, even though they're asleep. So I'll say, come on, Ted, help me out here. Stop bleeding, or something. So it's just a, maybe a silly way, but to remind me that the patient that's there under all these drapes i…”
Dec 23, 2019
Vorster: Two colleagues committed suicide following adverse complications in elective surgery
“I've had two colleagues who've committed suicide over bad outcomes on elective surgery where somebody Goes in and has some type of complication. Unavoidable, there's no real malpractice involved, but things happen.”
Dec 23, 2019 neutral
Vorster: Brain surgery cannot use double-blind placebo trials to develop algorithms
“However, data isn't always available, especially in brain surgery, because you can't do double-blinded tests, for example, where somebody gets a placebo and some don't, and so then you can develop Kind of an algorithm or a plan for your blood pressure medicati…”
Dec 23, 2019
Vorster takes a five-second "mandatory walk around" to reset during surgery
“So I sometimes tell people, Okay, mandatory walk around. That's what I say, and then I step away from the microscope, and I walk around the room for what feels like an eternity, but it's maybe five seconds or something, you know, and then I just walk back.”
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Dec 23, 2019
Vorster: Preserving Quality of Life Must Precede Deploying Surgical Technology
“So for us, I think protection of function and maintaining quality of life is really the first thing. Before we unleash all the wonderful technology and machines and medications that we have on a person, we really want to just come back to basics and say, well,…”
Dec 23, 2019 positive
Dr. Vorster: Introductions during surgical timeouts drive team ownership
“So I think the ownership of actually knowing who the patient is and introducing in the beginning, some of the timeouts we introduce This is Sally, she's the scrub dick, and this is John, the rep from some company, and this is Doctor, whatever, from China, who'…”