Postoperative analgesia in patients undergoing robot-assisted thoracic surgery: a comparison between epidural and intercostal nerve block combined with intravenous patient-controlled

Cardiac surgery has been at the forefront of healthcare quality measurement and improvement for ore than 2 decades. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons STS) Adult Cardiac Surgery Database was introduced in 989 and now enrolls patients from approximately 95% of ardiac surgery programs in the United States. Robust eneral thoracic and congenital cardiac surgery dataases have also been developed and i...

BACKGROUND Thoracic procedures are currently performed by general and thoracic surgeons. Initial clinical outcome after training is a good measure of the quality of the surgical training received. METHODS We examined the morbidity and mortality for pneumonectomy, lobectomy and esophagectomy during one surgeon's first 2 years of practice; we collected data prospectively. The results were based...

To undertake a comprehensive review of such a massive subject as thoracic surgery during the Second World War is, indeed, a Herculean task. The sheer volume of material encompassed in such a study would tend to make the final result merely a list of statistical analyses so often encountered in the medical literature of today. Instead, the editors have accomplished a remarkable feat by interpret...

The article presents our own experience of organoprotection during thoracic aortic surgery under circulatory arrest and off ers concept for perfusion organs surgical interventions dissection aneurysms.

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

Summary Surgery for benign esophageal diseases may be complex, requiring specialist training, but currently, unlike oncologic surgery, it is not centralized. The aim of the study was to explore opinion European surgeons on centralization surgery diseases. A web-based questionnaire, developed through a modified Delphi process, administered general and thoracic 33 surgical societies. There were 7...

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...