Intensive Care
In this single-center retrospective review from the Toronto Lung Transplant Program, a two-surgeon donor-review system in which lungs declined by the primary on-call surgeon were reassessed by a second surgeon salvaged 34 transplants from initially...
In this retrospective study of 170 patients undergoing pulmonary thromboendarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension at a high-volume center, 25 percent developed recurrent moderate or greater tricuspid regurgitation. Reoccurrence was...
This editorial argues that climate-driven wildfires are an escalating respiratory-health emergency. Smoke containing high concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), ozone, and toxic gases can travel far beyond fire zones....
In this single-center retrospective review from the Toronto Lung Transplant Program, a two-surgeon donor-review system in which lungs declined by the primary on-call surgeon were reassessed by a second surgeon...
Mediastinal and intrathoracic germ cell tumors are rare in the pediatric population, and extragonadal yolk sac tumors presenting as giant thoracic masses are rarer still. These tumors pose a dual...
Patient Care and General Interest Despite being the leading cause of death in the US, heart disease was the most-Googled disease in only one state: Maine. A study that sought...
The manuscript summarizes evidenced-based perioperative guidelines for enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS).
...The debate over the utility of postoperative incentive spirometry continues. In this instance, the use of a high-tech incentive spirometer that included audible reminders and use tracking was associated with...
Though medical care has become ever more dependent on teamwork, the profession has devoted relatively little attention to what makes for a good team. In this roundtable discussion moderated by...
Patient Care and General Interest The Cardiac Surgery Advanced Life Support (CALS) protocol is expanding to India from the UK, as a cardiac surgical team at Sri Ramachandra Institute of...
A brief viewpoint article (by the savior of baby Esperanza) from a widely read non-surgical journal on the debate on ECMO/EOLIA. I assume ‘thoracotomy’ implies ‘sternotomy’ as the standard surgical...
Will await the full paper to test the titular preliminary assertion.
...Exciting debate on the EOLIA trial! https://www.ctsnet.org/jans/extracorporeal-membrane-oxygenation-severe-a…
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