Latest papers

[The number of cardiovascular surgeons is decreasing in Nagano].

Patient safety is evolving: comment on "A novel method for reproducibly measuring the effects of interventions to improve emotional climate, indices of team skills and communication, and threat to patient outcome in a high-volume thoracic surgery center".

Care of the adult congenital heart disease patient in the United States: a summary of the current system.

A novel method for reproducibly measuring the effects of interventions to improve emotional climate, indices of team skills and communication, and threat to patient outcome in a high-volume thoracic surgery center.

[Obituary for Prof. Helmut Jenny]

Lipomodeling of Poland's syndrome: a new treatment of the thoracic deformity.

2010 ACCF/AHA/AATS/ACR/ASA/SCA/SCAI/SIR/STS/SVM guidelines for the diagnosis and management of patients with Thoracic Aortic Disease: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, American College of Radiology, American Stroke Association, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Interventional Radiology, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, and Society for Vascular Medicine.

Postoperative follow-up for patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

Comparison of cardiothoracic surgery training in USA and Germany.

Systemic administration of lidocaine reduces morphine requirements and postoperative pain of patients undergoing thoracic surgery after propofol-remifentanil-based anaesthesia.

Multi-Institutional Studies: Lessons Learned from the Pediatric Heart Network Single Ventricle Reconstruction Trial

Prevention and treatment of acute kidney injury in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: a systematic review.

Chance, Bias, and Confounding: Threats to Valid Measurement of Quality in the Context of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

Improving Pediatric Cardiac Surgical Care in Developing Countries: Matching Resources to Needs

[The role of physician assistant (PA) in cardiaothoracic surgery at Emory University Hospital]

The Congenital Heart Surgeons Society Datacenter: Unique Attributes as a Research Organization

History of cardiac surgery in Belgium. Part III: Evolution from 1960 to the present day.

Scientific teamwork--a particular approach.

A comparison of epidural vs. paravertebral blockade in thoracic surgery.

[Transparency of medical quality data. Ethical obligation to deliver or instrument to create unfair competitive advantage?].