OBJECTIVE To assess the reliability of using a cloth tape measure to determine thoracic respiratory excursion as a measurement of chest expansion or mobility. METHODS Physicians and residents experienced in osteopathic manipulative treatment measured thoracic excursion with a cloth tape measure held around the circumference of healthy male subjects' chests at two levels. Upper thoracic excurs...

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña University Hospital and Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery Unit (UCTMI), Coruña, Spain; Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200433, China *These authors contributed equally to this work. Correspondence to: Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, MD, FECTS. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña Univers...

STUDY DESIGN Single-cohort laboratory-based study. OBJECTIVES To measure thoracic spine extension motion during bilateral arm elevation using functional radiography and photographic image analysis. BACKGROUND Impairment of thoracic spine extension motion may impact shoulder girdle function. Motion of the thoracic spine during arm movement has not been directly measured using functional radi...

Background and Objective: Thoracic surgical patients provide unique challenges which can make maintaining adequate ventilation difficult or impossible. Despite advances in anaesthetic technique there are situations where other methods must be employed. The aim of this review is to an overview extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) how it utilised thoracic patients.