The authors describe a 22-year-old carpenter who presented two hours after a nail gun injury to the manubrium sterni without hemodynamic compromise.
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April 12, 2019
April 12, 2019
The debate over the utility of postoperative incentive spirometry continues. In this instance, the use of a high-tech incentive spirometer that included audible reminders and use tracking was associated with clinical benefit.
April 11, 2019
The culture of health care creates important challenges for health care professionals. In particular, this culture is 1) hierarchical, 2) competitive, and 3) perfectionistic. Unfortunately, the tendency of acquiescing to those demands is contrary to promoting resonant teamwork.
April 11, 2019
Cerfolio and colleagues applied lean and value stream mapping to operating room teams at their academic health center, creating a pilot approach to achieve more efficient operating room turnover.
April 11, 2019
The authors discuss an emergency lobectomy performed for an infant who presented with respiratory distress because of congenital lobar emphysema.
April 11, 2019
In this interview, Joel Dunning and Joel Cooper discuss lung volume reduction surgery, a technique that Dr Cooper pioneered and with which he has achieved consistently good results.
April 9, 2019
In this video, a huge anterior and middle mediastinal cyst was removed via median sternotomy from an 80-year-old patient who had very good recovery.
April 5, 2019
The author presents an unusual situation where a pneumonectomy was performed to treat symptomatic congenital pulmonary venous stenosis in an adult patient.
April 4, 2019
In this review, biomedical informatics experts explain what machine learning is with illustrative examples, and they discuss how machine learning can help the work of clinicians including diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, optimizing clinician workflow, and expanding the availability of clinical expertise.
Intraoperative Conversion During Video-Assisted Thoracoscopy Does Not Constitute a Treatment Failure
April 3, 2019
Intraoperative conversion may be necessary during video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) for lung cancer. In this study on 610 patients, Fourdrain and colleagues observed that conversion during a VATS procedure was not associated with worse outcomes than undergoing an up-front thoracotomy.