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Thoracic
October 16, 2018
September 26, 2018
Using the National Cancer Database, the effect of the timing of computed tomography (CT) surveillance after resection of non-small cell lung cancer on survival was investigated. Survival was similar for patients undergoing CTs every three months or every six months compared to those undergoing annual surveillance CTs. More frequent imaging also had
September 16, 2018
The highly respected Cochrane Collaboration is in crisis today at its 25th annual meeting in Edinburgh as one board member is expelled and six more resign. There are more links below but it seems to have been over a dispute regarding the independence of authors and members with regards to links to industry and pharmaceutical companies.
August 8, 2018
Know what reviewers and editors are looking for when evaluating your submission to their journals.
May 19, 2018
Enhanced recovery programs are very popular now, but their benefits have been mostly theoretical. This article describes challenges and outcomes after initiation of such a program, citing decreased costs, lower opioid usage, and shortened length of stay.
March 9, 2018
Patient Care
Carter Capps, a pitcher for professional baseball team the San Diego Padres, has made himself a necklace out of the rib surgeons removed during his thoracic outlet surgery.
January 22, 2018
A model analysis of a phase I surgical device trial. The readable editorial discusses the adoption of surgical innovation on the occasion of a harmonic sealing device for pulmonary resections, highlighting the problem of ligating small branches of the pulmonary artery in confined spaces.
December 13, 2017
Filmed at the STS 2017 Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas, Emily Farkas moderates a discussion on changing the perceptions of women in cardiothoracic surgery.
November 22, 2017
Filmed at the 2017 STS Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas, Joel Dunning of the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesborough, UK, interviews Betty Tong of Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, about her path to cardiothoracic surgery.
September 15, 2017
Dr Peyman Sardari Nia is a Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon in the department of cardiothoracic surgery at Maastricht University Medical Center, the Netherlands, where he specializes in minimally invasive cardiothoracic surgery.