Some of the videos are silly, cheesy even… But ugly track suits aside… The results are, in arguably, wonderful. Patients eating, drinking, walking, and relaxing just an hour after major lung surgery. […]
Act differently or watch thoracic surgery die
Dr. Eric Lim challenges thoracic surgeons to remain relevant with a call to action at the 3rd VATS International conference in London, England
Dr. Hung, Dr. Chen and nonintubated and awake thoracic surgery
Dr. Ming-Hui Hung & Dr. Jin-Shing Chen at National Taiwan University Hospital talk about their work in nonintubated and awake thoracic surgery.
Fast track thoracic surgery: Non-intubated minimally invasive surgery for complex procedures
Single port thoracoscopic surgery and awake anesthesia: the micro-invasive thoracic surgery? The current research and use of these state of the art techniques to bring minimally invasive surgery to complex surgery and high risk patients.
Interview with the Brazilian Society of Thoracic Surgery
Thoracics.org talks to the Brazilian Society of Thoracic Surgery and result isn’t what you might expect.
Welcome to Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital
Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital – Shanghai, China Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital is a dream come true for a thoracic surgery aficionado like myself. Twelve operating rooms, a 30 ICU beds, 30 to 40 operations […]
Dr. Ahmet F. Işık talks about pleural mesothelioma, HITHOC, and thoracic surgery in Gaziantep, Turkey
updates on the on-going HITHOC project, war surgery, foreign body obstructions and bronchoscopy for infants
HITHOC in 2018 – Where are we now?
We’ve come along way when discussing Mesothelioma and the use of hyperthermic intrathoracic chemotherapy (HITHOC) since this site was started back in 2010. In fact, for our first discussions about this technique, […]
International VATS 2018: Segmentectomies
Monza, Italy Dr. Scarci has returned to his native Italy, and his first-born child, the International VATS Symposium has come with him. Now the chief of thoracic surgery at the 1,000 bed […]
Are you ready for VATS International 2018?
Out of all of the topics covered here at Thoracics.org – one of the most popular topics among surgeons and surgical residents is minimally invasive surgery – uniportal, in particular. There is […]
Surgery for Tuberculosis – More than thoracoplasty?
Long time readers know that tuberculosis, and the surgical treatment of tuberculosis have been high on our interest list here at Thoracics.org. While surgery was once the mainstay of treatment for […]
The Best of VATS International 2017: Dr. Marco Scarci & Dr. Diego Gonzalez Rivas
The Best of VATS International 2017 Most helpful: Dr. Marco Scarci & Dr. Diego Gonzalez Rivas For less abstract, and more clinically relevant information, particularly for surgeons new to uniportal VATS, the […]
The best of VATS International 2017: Joel Dunning
In a day crammed full of lectures from internationally recognized experts – as part of a series of articles, here are our picks Best Orator: Dr. Joel Dunning – for overall […]
