An alarming list of some crazy things our colleagues have done in the recent past.
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Thoracic
February 23, 2018
A comprehensive review of pleural diseases from the internists' viewpoint. Relevant to surgeons in the sense of referrals for empyema, pleural effusions, and other traditional surgical problems that are now often dealt with revitalised internist-led options such as office pleuroscopy/pleurodesis.
February 22, 2018
Konstantinos Papagiannopoulos of the St James University Hospital in Leeds, UK, reviews prostheses and adjuncts for chest wall reconstruction.
February 21, 2018
This video demonstrates a robotic excision of a parathyroid adenoma in the mediastinum sitting adjacent to a patent LIMA graft from a previous CABG.
February 21, 2018
A well-written, brief, pessimistic editorial on the loss of surgeon autonomy in innovation.
February 19, 2018
This video demonstrates a subcostal biportal VATS right lower lobectomy performed as a day surgery.
February 18, 2018
An interesting article describing the interface between medical 3D printing and art. It briefly outlines current and future applications, and it also describes constraints to the use of this technology.
February 17, 2018
An FDA advisory committee voted 6-4 against expanding approved indications for liposomal bupivicaine for regional pain control after surgery. This drug is a central element in many institutions' Enhanced Recovery After Surgery programs. They cited inconsistent results, failure to provide comparative results, and increased deaths associated with the
February 17, 2018
A balanced comment on the occasion of the latest retrospective nonrandomised Coselli report on redo thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms (TAAAs).
February 14, 2018
Interesting article commenting on the perception that some remedies in medicine are so obviously beneficial that testing their effectiveness is a waste of time. As it turns out, many of what physicians think are "slam dunk" remedies have mixed or negative results.