This video demonstrates a VATS left lower lobe lobectomy procedure, using the fissure last approach in a patient who had pulmonary sequestration with inflammatory lymph nodes in the hilum.
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Thoracic
May 11, 2021
This Beat episode, hosted by Dr. Brian Mitzman, invites Dr. Elliot Servais, general thoracic surgeon, to discuss training the next generation of thoracic surgeons.
May 5, 2021
The video shows intraoperative identification of anomalous pulmonary vein in subcarinal space in 2 cases and to emphasize dissection and preservation of such a vein to avoid a major intraoperative bleeding.
April 28, 2021
This video demonstrates a subxiphoid left S3 segmentectomy, as a day surgery radical oncological treatment of an early stage lung cancer in an elderly patient.
April 22, 2021
This video demonstrates robotic-assisted division of an aberrant retroesophageal right subclavian artery utilizing a right-sided approach.
April 21, 2021
This video demonstrates how to perform robotic right middle lobe lobectomy.
April 19, 2021
This video describes the Moffitt Technique for robotic surgery.
April 16, 2021
A most comprehensive practice guideline, relevant not only to surgeons involved in VA ECMO, but also all cardiac and thoracic colleagues and perioperative clinicians.
April 15, 2021
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons' most recent Practice Survey was executed in the fall of 2019, the results of which were discussed at their 2020 annual meeting. Women in Thoracic Surgery, in conjunction with STS, reviewed those results, with a focus on female respondents. Women remain a significantly small subset of the cardiothoracic workforce.
April 14, 2021
This video demonstrates how near infra-red imaging technology can be used to enhance visualization of anatomical lung segments for segmentectomy.