At the 2024 EACTS Annual Meeting, Dr. Alice Copperwheat spoke with Kathryn Hewitt and Kathryn Gill about the role and utility of advanced clinical practitioners.
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Thoracic
March 14, 2025
March 13, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning examines how to prevent adverse publicity by patients on social media.
March 13, 2025
This study compared the effects and complications of prone positioning (PP) in obese vs non-obese patients with moderate-to-severe acute respiratory distress syndrome after cardiothoracic surgery.
March 13, 2025
This study investigates the impact of tumor spread through air spaces (STAS) on surgical outcomes for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In a retrospective analysis of 785 patients, 19.2 percent were found to have STAS-positive NSCLC.
March 13, 2025
This study demonstrates a feasible approach to port catheter placement without imaging, offering a practical alternative for low-resource settings.
March 11, 2025
This video demonstrates a minimally invasive bilateral orthotopic lung transplant with robotic assistance.
March 7, 2025
At the 2025 STS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Emily Farkas spoke with Dr. Dominique Vervoort about global cardiac surgery workforce planning.
March 6, 2025
In this episode of The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning examines surgical staplers. He explores the history of surgical staplers, the evolution of surgical staplers, and discusses the company that created the first automated minimally invasive surgical stapler—United States Surgical Corporation (USSC).
March 6, 2025
Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related deaths, and low-dose computed tomography screening can reduce mortality for high-risk individuals.
March 6, 2025
This video demonstrates robotic thoracic truncal vagotomy for the treatment of recalcitrant marginal ulcers after gastric surgery.