This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning discusses the latest salaries and conditions of cardiothoracic surgeons in the United States. He explores the highest versus lowest compensation areas, areas with the highest growth for compensation, and where cardiothoracic surgeons rank among other surgeons.
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Thoracic
December 5, 2024
December 5, 2024
This article provides a consensus-based approach for determining the resectability and optimal management strategies for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
December 5, 2024
This article assesses the outcomes of segmentectomy versus lobectomy in treating peripheral, early-stage lung adenocarcinoma. In a multicenter study involving 674 patients, the authors compared overall survival (OS), lung cancer-specific survival (LCSS), and disease-free survival (DFS) between the two groups.
December 5, 2024
This video demonstrates a single-port thoracoscopic RS3 segmentectomy via the periareolar approach in a 37-year-old female patient with a 7 mm pure ground-glass opacity in the anterior segment of the right upper lobe.
December 2, 2024
A step-by-step, innovative surgical tutorial on performing a robotic-assisted carinal reconstruction using only cross-table ventilation.
November 28, 2024
This video demonstrates a total robotic left pneumonectomy following neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy in a 70-year-old patient with Stage IIIA adenocarcinoma.
November 26, 2024
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning discusses how to be a better trainer. He explores tips for training people, the five levels of training, and sensory overload. Later in the podcast, he further explores the topic of training trainers with Professor Mark Coleman, co-founder of Lapco, an innovative training consultancy focused on safer surgeries.
November 22, 2024
In this episode of The Beat, CTSNet EIC Joel Dunning had the opportunity to speak with Professor Mark Redmond about the ROSS procedure at the 2024 Birmingham Review Course. They discuss the current status of the ROSS procedure, the evolution of this procedure, and its benefits.
November 21, 2024
This contemporary video demonstrates the step-by-step process of placing a pigtail catheter to treat both pneumothorax and effusion.
November 21, 2024
Current guidelines advocate for surgically placed intercoastal catheters (ICC) for pain optimization following minimally invasive anatomic lung resection. This double-blind, randomized study aimed to determine the efficacy of loco-regional continuous ropivacaine application through ICC as a method of providing analgesia postoperatively.