Thoracic

Podcast
January 8, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Gavin Wright, thoracic surgeon and Director of Surgical Oncology at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, Australia, and thoracic surgeon...

JANS Article
January 8, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

A multidisciplinary panel of lung cancer experts, facilitated by the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the European Respiratory Society, developed practical recommendations for assessing patients’ fitness for curative intent...

JANS Article
January 8, 2026 | Vincent SierSilver Contributor

This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated whether preprocedural fasting reduces the risk of witnessed pulmonary aspiration. Across 2,105 patients, aspiration was rare and not influenced by liberal vs restrictive fasting...

JANS Article
January 8, 2026 | Vincent SierSilver Contributor

In this article from the British Medical Journal, the author examines AI-generated images of doctors using OpenAI’s ChatGPT, comparing these depictions with real-world medical workforce data. A total of 24...

Video
January 8, 2026 | Abdelrahman Elsayed

This video presents the case of a 65-year-old woman with a T2aN0M0 centrally located right upper lobe lung cancer. She had good performance status and excellent pulmonary function. Preoperative bronchoscopy...

Video
January 6, 2026 | Jebin Aaron D

The surgical approach to tumors in the left secondary carina is complex due to their close proximity to the great vessels and the heart. The authors propose that the tumors...

Podcast
January 2, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning reflects on the most popular content of 2025 on CTSNet. He discusses the top interview, the most popular webinar, and reveals...

Article
January 1, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

As 2025 comes to an end, the CTSNet editor team reflected on another year of incredible cardiothoracic content. The Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning and the senior editors handpicked a collection of...