2024 Canadian Surgery Forum01 The green thumb of endoscopy: switching from sterile water to tap water02 Comparing wait times for common elective general surgery procedures between immigrants and non-immigrants in British Columbia03 Dr. GPT will see you now: the ability of large language models to provide colorectal cancer screening recommendations04 Surgeon- and hospital-level variation in wait times for scheduled non-urgent surgery in Ontario, Canada: a cross-sectional population-based study05 Multicentre pan-Canadian experience of per oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) for the treatment of achalasia: a retrospective study06 Safety and efficacy of tranexamic acid use in general surgery patients: a sub-study of the POISE-3 randomized controlled trial07 Emergency department presentation following ERCP in Nova Scotia: high rebound rates related to progressive pancreaticobiliary pathologies demonstrates the need for alternative acute care strategies08 Maintaining rural and remote surgical skills: a needs assessment survey for a surgical virtual education platform09 Opioid prescribing following same-day general surgery procedures: a province-wide analysis10 Canadian survey of surgeons’ knowledge and attitudes toward opportunistic salpingectomy during nongynecologic surgery11 Postoperative outcomes following revision or conversion metabolic and bariatric surgery after primary sleeve gastrectomy: a retrospective cohort analysis12 Survival outcomes in the Canadian Merkel cell carcinoma population and descriptive comparison with the AJCC 8th edition staging system13 Postoperative pain is a preventable cause of early emergency department visits following appendectomy14 Testing the HoloHands model: a comprehensive holographic tutor for surgical hand ties15 Point-of-care hemoglobin accuracy in noncardiac surgery (PREMISE): a prospective diagnostic cohort study16 Enhancing access to semi-urgent cholecystectomy procedures: a retrospective observational study17 Cost savings associated with on-site surgical care in a remote Indigenous community in Northern Quebec18 Advancing health equity: unravelling disparities in preoperative health care utilization among immigrants undergoing elective surgery19 Surgical wait times in British Columbia: more of the same is not enough20 Clinical artificial intelligence: customizing a large language model to generate SAGES guideline recommendations for the surgical management of GERD01 The impact of preoperative nutritional intervention on postoperative morbidity among sarcopenic patients undergoing esophagectomy: a prospective cohort study02 ctDNA Lung DETECT: assessing ctDNA prospectively in resected early-stage non-small-cell lung cancers03 Same-day discharge after pulmonary wedge resection: a cost–utility analysis04 Understanding global perspectives in diaphragmatic reconstruction during hiatal hernia repair by geography, specialty training, and experience05 An evaluation of 986 consecutive endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration procedures for reflex biomarker testing for lung cancer: a single-centre retrospective review06 Endoscopic ultrasound-guided core needle biopsies (EUS-CNB): safe and effective approach for diagnosing lymphoma in patients with mediastinal lymphadenopathy07 Three-dimensional lung modelling improves the completion rate of segmental resection01 Propofol for sedation during colonoscopy: a systematic review and meta-analysis02 Development of the Low Anterior Resection Syndrome Impact and Consequences Assessment Tool (LARS ICAT)03 Postoperative recovery of colorectal patients enhanced with dexmedetomidine (PReCEDex): a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials04 Failure to rescue in colorectal surgery: a systematic review05 Robotic versus laparoscopic colorectal surgery for patients with obesity: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis06 Laparoscopically assisted colonoscopic polypectomy: a 7-year retrospective analysis07 Preoperative very-low-energy diets for patients with obesity undergoing intra-abdominal colorectal surgery: a single-centre retrospective cohort study (RetroPREPARE)08 Fragility of statistically significant outcomes in randomized controlled trials focused on surgical management of anal fissures: a systematic review09 The impact of preoperative stoma education on postoperative outcomes for patients with new stomas after colorectal surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis10 The impact of obesity on postoperative outcomes following surgery for colorectal cancer: analysis of the national inpatient sample 2015–201911 The association between preoperative anemia and health care resource use and outcomes after colorectal surgery: a population-based cohort study12 Effect of Kono-S anastomosis on reducing postoperative recurrence rates in Crohn disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis13 Assessing radiologic pathologic concordance in direct to surgery rectal cancer patients14 A comparison of hi