Friends and colleagues are mourning cardiothoracic surgeon Domenico Pagano, MD, the onetime secretary-general of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), who died October 10 ...
On a bright day in May 1953, American surgeon John Gibbon performed the first ever successful open-heart operation with a heart-lung machine, which he and his wife Mary had developed. This ...
A Black woman is breaking barriers for other minorities in surgical fields. Dr. Africa Wallace, director of Thoracic Surgery at Capital Health, was tapped as the president of the Eastern ...
Johannes R. Kratz, MD, has been named as the inaugural chief of UCSF’s Division of Thoracic Surgery, one of the leading academic robotic thoracic surgery programs in the western U.S. He brings a track ...
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Clinical trial offers strong evidence that nerve blocks can cut opioid use after cardiac surgery
A clinical trial led by St. Michael's Hospital researchers found that using nerve blocks, an anesthesia technique to numb ...
Patients needing thoracic surgery can benefit from a shorter hospital stay, less post-operative pain, smaller incisions, a lower chance of complications, and a decreased risk of mortality with robotic ...
Thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) is a group of conditions that occur when you have compressed nerves or blood vessels in the thoracic outlet. The thoracic outlet is the triangular space between your ...
A multidisciplinary approach and symptom management are both vital components of home care to provide continuity of care after cardiac surgery because they decrease symptoms and readmissions to the ...
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