Search Tag: thoracic surgery

ICU Management

Living-without-lungs-for-6-days-saves-a-mom-s-life

2017 31 Jan

In a challenging procedure never done before, thoracic surgeons at Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network removed severely infected lungs from a dying mom, keeping her alive without lungs for six days, so that she could recover enough to receive a life-saving lung transplant. A report of this case is published online in The Journal of...Read more

Cardiology Management

31st-eacts-2017-annual-meeting-european-association-for-cardio-thoracic-surgery

2017 07 Oct

EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR CARDIO-THORACIC SURGERY The Association was founded in 1986 and now represents over 3,000 surgeons, perfusionists and allied health professionals across the world. Find  European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery   on Social Media         Read more

Cardiology Management

30th-eacts-annual-meeting

2016 01 Oct

EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR CARDIO-THORACIC SURGERY The Association was founded in 1986 and now represents over 3,000 surgeons, perfusionists and allied health professionals across the world. Read more

Executive Health Management

Collaboration-for-better-lung-cancer-surgery-outcomes

2014 30 Dec

Collaboration between The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) and the European Society of Thoracic Surgery (ESTS) is expected to help improve the quality of patient care by linking outcomes data on chest procedures, beginning with lung cancer surgery. A draft manuscript and data have already been circulated and the outcomes are expected to be presented...Read more

Cardiology Management

New-guidelines-for-peri-and-postoperative-afib

2014 29 Sep

Evidence-based guidelines for the prevention and treatment of perioperative and postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) and flutter for thoracic surgical procedures have been released by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS). The new guidelines have been published in The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery . According...Read more