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Thoracic

November 18, 2020
This video demonstrates the ubxiphoid approach combined with nonintubated opioid-free anesthesia for the excision of a large thymoma that required pericardial resection.
November 17, 2020
This Beat episode, featuring Dr Jessica Luc, cardiovascular surgery resident from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, as the host, discussing highlights from the CTSNet COVID-19 portal, including the subspecialty guidance statements on cardiac, thoracic, and congenital patient triage, followed by education and ethical considerations during the pandemic.
November 17, 2020
To introduce this video series, Tristan Yan takes you through a day of thoracic surgery at Chris O'Brien Lifehouse Cancer Centre in Sydney, Australia.
November 17, 2020
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 thoracic surgical oncology.
November 16, 2020
This article from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Virtual Conference Taskforce provides recommendations applicable to all virtual meetings and beyond with focused dicscussion on timezones, diversity/inclusion and how to optimize participant interactivity and networking. 
November 12, 2020
This article examines the use of lungs from older donors and associated survival of recipients.
November 12, 2020
The initial experience from Ann Arbor throughout a quarter of a century in malperfusion syndrome from type B (De Bakey III) aortic dissection is presented in this paper, juxtaposing early fenestrating and adjunct endovascular techniques to conservative treatments.
November 11, 2020
This video demonstrates the tension-free closure of a large Morgagni hernia utilizing laparoscopic-assisted transabdominal sutures.
November 9, 2020
In a press release early this morning, Pfizer and BioNTech accounced the results of their vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2 in the first interim efficacy analysis of its Phase 3 clinical study.
November 4, 2020
In this Beat podcast episode, Joel Dunning discusses the EXCEL trial and European guidelines, percutaneous interventions with coronary bypass surgery, management of aortic emergencies during COVID-19, and osimertinib in positive resected cancer.

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