Dr. Robert Sade has made it his personal mission to educate surgeons regarding ethics and to help truly establish the field of surgical ethics. The Ethics of Surgery: Conflicts and Controversies represents the latest of his efforts.
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Cardiac
June 11, 2015
Douglas Wood, Fawwaz Shaw, Emily Farkas, and Nahush Mokadam discuss work-life balance within the cardiothoracic surgery specialty.
June 10, 2015
Gianluigi Bisleri of University of Brescia Medical School, Brescia, Italy, discusses a hybrid treatment for atrial fibrillation using endoscopic ablation.
June 9, 2015
Alan Bond, a well known Australian tycoon died after redo triple valve surgery in perth.
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June 9, 2015
This insightful paper compares surgery for degenerative mitral valve disease over a number of different "eras." Interestingly, the most recent data in what the authors term "era 3" (2005-2011) demonstrates that patients are being operated on at an earlier stage in their disease- with less symptoms than historic eras.
June 4, 2015
This roundtable discussion, filmed at the 2015 STS Annual Meeting, focuses on the different training paths open to cardiothoracic surgery residents in the United States.
June 1, 2015
This video shows an aortic valve replacement in a patient with severe aortic stenosis through a minimally invasive right thoracotomy approach. The postoperative follow-up was uneventful and the patient was discharged on post-operative day six.
May 29, 2015
240 high risk patients undergoing cardiac surgery were randomized to remote ischemic preconditioning (3 5-min cycles of single upper extremity ischemia after anesthetic induction) or sham. Preconditioning reduced the incidence of acute kidney injury by one-third and the need for renal replacement therapy by two-thirds. These results were associated
May 28, 2015
A new cohort analysis looks at the use of functional imaging, in addition to coronary angiography, in preoperative planning for surgical revascularization.
May 27, 2015
In this manuscript the authors describe their finding after a systematic review and meta-analysis to explore the safety and efficacy of the Mitraclip procedure for patients with functional mitral regurgitation (FMR). Overall, 875 patients were included. Every patient underwent a follow-up of at least 6 months.