Robotic Thoracic Surgery
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Traves Crabtree, Professor and Chair of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Medical Director of the Surgical Skills Laboratory at the Memorial Learning Center...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Traves Crabtree, Professor and Chair of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Medical Director of the Surgical Skills Laboratory...
A 27-year-old male previously underwent bilateral T2–T3 sympathicotomy for severe palmar hyperhidrosis. Compensatory hyperhidrosis involving the trunk developed one year after the initial procedure and progressively became debilitating. Seven years...
This study evaluated the Autonomous Blood Drawing Optimization and Performance Testing (ADOPT) trial, which assessed the performance, safety, and patient experience of an autonomous robotic phlebotomy device (ARPD) utilizing multimodal...
This video demonstrates the implantation of bilateral phrenic nerve pacing leads using a robotic subxiphoid approach without lung isolation. This approach was utilized because the patient presented with central hypoventilation...
This video demonstrates a robotic-assisted resection of the left fifth rib for oligometastatic melanoma involving the chest wall. An 83-year-old man with a history of cutaneous melanoma presented with progressive...
This clinical video demonstrates the preservation of a replaced left hepatic artery during the creation of a gastric conduit in a robotic-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (RAMIE) for post-neoadjuvant esophageal adenocarcinoma....
The clinical case presented in this video concerns a 67-year-old female patient who came to the authors’ attention in 2021 after undergoing a computed tomography (CT) scan that revealed the...
This video demonstrates the robotic resection of a giant superior mediastinal mass. The patient was a middle-aged male who had been referred to the authors’ clinic for evaluation of a...
At the 2026 American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Annual Meeting, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief, Joel Dunning, a cardiothoracic surgeon at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, UK, engaged in a discussion...
Robotic thoracic surgery provides superior precision and enhanced ergonomics compared to video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, primarily due to its three-dimensional visualization and wristed instruments. These advantages facilitate meticulous dissection and more...
In this video, the authors present the case of a 65-year-old female diagnosed with a central squamous cell carcinoma of the left upper lobe with nodal involvement in stations 5...
This video demonstrates a robotic left lower lobectomy using bedside stapling to improve efficiency and assist with the rapid flow of the operative procedure. Interestingly, with the Si system, this...









