2020 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with European Association Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)

From the Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC. Disclosures: Author has nothing to disclose with regard to commercial support. Received for publication March 27, 2017; accepted for publication March 28, 2017. Address for reprints: Thomas A. D’Amico, MD, Section of General Thoracic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, DUMC Box 3496, D...

BACKGROUND Thoracic surgery may cause reduced respiratory function and pulmonary complications, with associated increased risk of mortality. Postoperative physiotherapy aims to reverse atelectasis and secretion retention, and may include incentive spirometry. OBJECTIVES To review the evidence for incentive spirometry, examining the physiological basis, equipment and its use following thoracic...

Surgical pneumothorax allows obtaining comfortable surgical space for minimally invasive thoracic surgery, under spontaneous ventilation and thoracic epidural anesthesia, without need to provide general anesthesia and neuromuscular blockade. One lung ventilation (OLV) by iatrogenic lung collapse, associated with spontaneous breathing and lateral position required for the surgery, involves patho...

Background: The thoracic surgery team at the Shanghai Chest Hospital has been publishing its annual report since 2018, summarizing services provided and major progress achieved over previous year.

Objectives- To provide a reference anatomy of the thoracic cavity vessels of the Rayini goat by using Computed tomography. Design- Experimented study. Animals- Five healthy Rayini goat. Procedures- Spiral CT images (with and without contrast media) were acquired from the thoracic region perpendicular to long axis of the body. CT windows were adjusted as necessary to have optimized images of ...