Dr. Timothy Powell, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Cookeville Regional Medical Center, successfully completed his first coronary artery bypass graft surgery using the state-of-the-art da Vinci ...

Yuda Liu, MD, cardiothoracic surgeon, has joined Hamilton Physician Group – Cardiothoracic Surgery. A graduate of Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Dr. Liu completed residencies in ...

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) will keep its January 24 annual meeting start date at the Los Angeles Convention Center amid ongoing wildfire threats, the group’s President Jennifer C.

reduce length of hospital stay and improve quality of life after cancer and limb reconstruction surgery. However, there are minimal data on the impact of prehabilitation in patients undergoing cardiac ...

Thoracic surgeon compensation has increased across multiple specialties since 2023, according to a Jan. 26 news release from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Results from the society's second ...

In this era of increasingly procedural cardiology, many physicians regard the cognitive exercise of preoperative evaluation for non-cardiac surgery as an onerous task. In reality, the preoperative ...

OBJECTIVE--To evaluate the incidence, characteristics, and haemodynamic consequences of pericardial effusion after cardiac surgery. DESIGN--Clinical, echocardiographic, and Doppler evaluations before ...

Editor’s note: Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt is a urologist and robotic surgeon with Orlando Health and an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida’s College of Medicine. Contrary to ...

For many years, in the surgeon’s locker room (which actually has much in common with other kinds of locker rooms), cardiac surgeons would mention to each other a phenomenon they often referred to as ...

More than half the patients awaiting cardiac surgery have waited too long, the latest statistics show. People accepted for heart surgery are put in “urgency bands”. The most urgent should ...

Led by SLMC’s robotic cardiac surgeons, Dr. Ramiro Pablo and Dr. Marvin Martinez, the team performed a robotic minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass on a 40-year-old male patient.