Penetrating thoracic injuries have high risks of morbidity and mortality, with severe pulmonary vascular and bronchial injuries sometimes necessitating post-traumatic pneumonectomy and perioperative ECMO support due to right ventricular and respiratory failure.
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Trauma
August 15, 2024
April 11, 2024
This video demonstrates the third redo slide tracheoplasty and esophagoplasty in a fifteen-month-old following button battery ingestion on VA-ECMO.
February 27, 2024
In this video, that authors demonstrate an emergency clamshell thoracotomy.
January 10, 2023
This video shows the authors’ method for treatment of a gunshot wound to the trachea robotically.
December 19, 2022
This video demonstrates how video assisted thoracoscopy surgery can be utilized for successful lung detorsion in symptomatic individuals.
November 15, 2022
This video shows a case of a large post-intubation tracheal laceration repair performed by robotic assisted thoracoscopic surgery with a veno-venous ECMO support. It demonstrates the enormous potential of these two technological tools when applied together for selected complex cases of tracheal diseases.
June 27, 2022
The case of median arcuate ligament (MAL) release in a patient who developed MAL syndrome following motorcycle trauma seventeen years prior.
June 23, 2022
It’s already halfway through 2022. To celebrate, we’ve rounded up the six most popular thoracic videos published so far this year.
January 20, 2022
This is a case video demonstrating traumatic right main bronchus transection following blunt thoracic injury with successful primary repair.
November 4, 2020
This is a video of the operative repair of a traumatic transection of the right main bronchus.