The authors discuss the case of a 32-year-old man who was referred with a diagnosis of an extragonadal germ cell tumor in the anterior mediastinum.
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May 6, 2020
This article describes recommendations from the North American leadership in regards to the safe reintroduction of cardiovascular services during the COVID-19 pandemic including, but not limited to, ethical considerations, the importance of collaboration amongst public health officials and cardiovascular specialties, and protection of healthcare work
May 4, 2020
Mara Antonoff moderates a discussion on why wellness matters during crisis, strategies to achieve wellness, and obstacles to overcome.
May 3, 2020
This is a research letter the looks at the investment that CMS has made in developing quality measures. It points out the limited value of many of them and discusses recommendations for implementation and evaluation of these measures.
April 30, 2020
In this roundtable discussion, Brian Mitzman moderates a discussion on the challenges residents and fellows face in fulfilling specific requirements for their specialty education when they have been redeployed to work in other capacities due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
April 28, 2020
CTSNet has developed a resource to help share real time information about the COVID-19 pandemic for the cardiothoracic community.
April 28, 2020
This is a video of a patient with a thymoma and myasthenia gravis who also has a left SVC.
April 27, 2020
This manuscript outlines the difficulties of providing safe thoracic surgery during COVID-19 and details solutions for overcoming these challenges.
April 22, 2020
"We were all worried about the availability of ventilators but actually you've got to have enough people to run them." Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Joel Dunning, decided to do something about it by redeploying as an ICU Nurse for the NHS, setting a great example for all clinicians being asked to consider roles outside of the comfort zone.
April 21, 2020
Jessica Luc, Shanda Blackmon, Mahesh Ramchandani, and Nahush Mokadam discuss the topic of telemedicine for the cardiothoracic surgeon during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.