In this international randomized trial involving 2,124 thoracic surgery patients requiring one-lung ventilation, the authors compared high positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) with recruitment maneuvers (10 cm H2O) to standard low PEEP without recruitment (5 cm H2O).
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November 20, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Randas Batista, cardiac surgeon and founder of Vilela Batista Heart Foundation, about the surgical treatment of Eisenmenger syndrome.
November 19, 2025
This video demonstrates the en bloc heart and lung donation after circulatory death rapid recovery protocol combined with abdominal normothermic regional perfusion, proving safe and feasible.
November 5, 2025
This video illustrates how teleproctoring allows the performance of complex robotic-assisted thoracic surgery lung resections, even in the early phases of a robotic program.
October 30, 2025
This article presents the first comparative analysis of outcomes after tracheobronchoplasty (TBP) for excessive dynamic airway collapse (EDAC) and tracheobronchomalacia (TBM), two distinct but often conflated causes of excessive central airway collapse (ECAC).
October 23, 2025
This retrospective study analyzed 35,038 U.S. lung transplant recipients, of which 526 also received kidney transplants for renal replacement or chronic kidney disease (CKD) stages 3b-5.
October 23, 2025
The NeoCOAST-2 trial, published in Nature Medicine, evaluates the efficacy and safety of neoadjuvant durvalumab-based combination regimens for resectable stage IIA–IIIB non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
October 21, 2025
This video demonstrates a robotic-assisted left upper lobe S1/2 bisegmentectomy for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer in a patient with a high body mass index and poor lung function.
October 7, 2025
This video demonstrates a robotic-assisted left upper lobe sleeve lobectomy for a carcinoid tumor, highlighting the technical aspects of bronchial reconstruction and the favorable postoperative outcome.
October 6, 2025
This video demonstrates the thoracoscopic resection of a giant right lower lobe tension bulla in a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex.