This study used a two-round Delphi consensus process with multidisciplinary experts, including thoracic surgeons, anesthetists, nurses, physiotherapists, and patients, to create a structured set of 62 enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) recommendations specific to thoracic surgery.
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Thoracic
March 12, 2026
In this episode of The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. John Forrest, a cardiologist and Director of both Interventional Cardiology and the Structural Heart Disease Program at Yale Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA, about a paper he authored titled “Six-Year Outcomes After Transcatheter vs Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Low-Risk Patients With Aortic Stenosis,” published by the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
March 12, 2026
This video demonstrates a case of left upper lobe apicoposterior segmentectomy in a patient with a prior history of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer who presented with an evolving, heterogeneous left upper lobe lesion.
March 11, 2026
This video demonstrates a robotic right upper sleeve lobectomy using a rotational azygos vein flap to repair the bronchial anastomosis defect after resecting the cancerous right upper lobe (RUL) and RUL bronchus.
March 11, 2026
This video highlights the usefulness of 3D reconstruction planning in video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery segmentectomies.
March 5, 2026
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Drs. Mateo Marin-Cuartas and Samuel Heuts about a paper they authored titled “Updated 5-Year Outcomes of Transcatheter Versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients With Severe Aortic Stenosis at Low- to Intermediate-Surgical Risk,” published in Heart, a journal produced by the British Medical Journal.
March 5, 2026
This video presents a left uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery left upper lobe trisegmentectomy (lingular-sparing S1–3 segmentectomy) performed through a 3 cm incision for a metastatic lung nodule in a 35-year-old woman.
March 5, 2026
This PRE-HIIT randomized controlled trial published in the Annals of Surgery evaluated whether a brief, high-intensity interval training (HIIT) program could improve preoperative cardiopulmonary fitness in patients awaiting complex surgery for lung or esophageal cancer.
February 27, 2026
This video shows the steps of mesh insertion via video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in a post-traumatic lung herniation.
February 26, 2026
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Niv Ad, Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Innovations: Technology and Techniques in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery" and professor of surgery at John Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, about the journal.