Joel Dunning
This video presents a case of an older patient with severe pectus who had only one Nuss bar. Over four months, the bar fractured the thin sternum and migrated over it, exiting the thoracic cavity....
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Luca Di Marco, a cardiac surgeon in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Bologna University Hospital, Italy, about...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with David Waller, Chair of the EACTS Emphysema Taskforce and Director of the EACTS Fundamentals Course in Thoracic Surgery, about...
This expert consensus document addresses lung volume reduction (LVR) for emphysema, including surgical and endobronchial approaches for appropriately selected patients. It provides guidance on patient selection, techniques, risks, transplantation considerations,...
This article summarizes the surgical treatment of Pope Leo XIV, who was recently diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma. Surgeons performed a uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lobectomy. The surgery team reported...
Professor Tristan D. Yan, a consultant cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon based at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia, prepared a series of twelve surgical videos on the technical...
This Beat episode, featuring Joel Dunning, cardiothoracic surgeon at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, UK, as the host, discusses: if the tide is turning on EXCEL and the...
In this video, the authors present the case of a 51-year-old man who suffered a high impact cyclist collision with a car. He suffered a severe right neck extension injury,...
This hard hitting article summarises the current situation with the Excel trial and the situation regarding the evidence of PCI vs CABG in left main stem disease. It exposes a...
This is a short video interview with Robin Sunley, a complementary therapist that started with Joel Dunning’s team in October of 2019. He routinely provides acupuncture, auriculotherapy, and mindfulness to...
In this episode, hosted by Joel Dunning, cardiothoracic surgeon at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, UK, news topics include the recent virtual EACTS conference, surgery after TAVR or...
In this interview with Joel Dunning, Joseph Bavaria reflects on his career and the initiatives advanced during his STS presidency, including collaboration with the wider cardiothoracic surgery community and advancing...
Joel Dunning and Shanda Blackmon discuss safety in minimally invasive general thoracic surgery. They focus on the importance of preparation, such that a surgical team knows its course of action...








