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In this extraordinary interview, Cristina Ruiz Segria, CTSNet Senior Editor—Clinical Care Providers, speaks with Dr. Tara Mastracci about social prescribing and the ramifications of social... More
February 19, 2018
This video demonstrates a subcostal biportal VATS right lower lobectomy performed as a day surgery.
February 12, 2018
This video demonstrates a laparoscopic total gastrectomy and omentectomy with roux-en-y reconstruction.
February 7, 2018
Filmed at the 2017 STS Annual Meeting, Blair Marshall, Virginia Litle, Andrea Wolf, and Mara Antonoff discuss the experience of motherhood as cardiothoracic surgeons.
February 5, 2018
This video demonstrates an open window thoracostomy, performed for a broncopleural fistula that occurred three months after a left pneumonectomy.
January 31, 2018
Filmed at the 2017 STS Annual Meeting, Joel Dunning, Moishe Liberman, and Eric Goudie discuss the division of pulmonary arteries using an energy device.
January 29, 2018
This video demonstrates the technique of transaxillary resection of the first and cervical ribs.
January 17, 2018
Find it here: The First International Conference on Sublobar Resections for Lung Cancer.
January 15, 2018
This video demonstrates the key steps of a right upper microlobectomy. The authors have performed microlobectomy for the last three years and the results of their experience were published in 2017.
December 21, 2017
As the year comes to a close, the CTSNet staff present the ten most popular roundtable discussions published in 2017.
December 18, 2017
In this video, the author performs a VATS right lower lobectomy for lung cancer using a posterior approach.