Content Posted in 2021

A cost-minimisation analysis of lobectomy: thoracoscopic versus posterolateral thoracotomy, William R. Burfeind, Nikhil P. Jaik, Nestor Villamizar, Eric M. Toloza, David H. Harpole, and Thomas A. D'Amico

Celiac artery compression syndrome: Successful utilization of robotic-assisted laparoscopic approach, Nikhil P. Jaik, S. Peter Stawicki, Natalie S. Weger, and John J. Lukaszczyk

Commentary: Tube or no tube?, William R. Burfeind

Comparison of Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery and Robotic Approaches for Clinical Stage I and Stage II Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Using The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database, Brian E. Louie, Jennifer L. Wilson, Sunghee Kim, Robert J. Cerfolio, Bernard J. Park, Alexander S. Farivar, Eric Vallières, Ralph W. Aye, William R. Burfeind, and Mark I. Block

Defining Proficiency for The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Participants Performing Thoracoscopic Lobectomy, Varun Puri, Henning A. Gaissert, David W. Wormuth, Eric L. Grogan, William R. Burfeind, Andrew C. Chang, Christopher W. Seder, Felix G. Fernandez, Lisa Brown, Mitchell J. Magee, Andrzej S. Kosinski, Daniel P. Raymond, Stephen R. Broderick, Robert J. Welsh, Malcolm M. DeCamp, Farhood Farjah, Melanie A. Edwards, and Benjamin D. Kozower

Diltiazem Does Not Prevent Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation After Thoracoscopic Lobectomy, Madeline R. Lederer, Alexa Deemer, Franzes A. Liongson, Nicholas Roma, Charles T. Lee, Jill C. Stoltzfus, and William R. Burfeind

Evaluation of crowd-sourced assessment of the critical view of safety in laparoscopic cholecystectomy, Shanley B. Deal, Dimitrios Stefanidis, Dana Telem, Robert D. Fanelli, Marian McDonald, Michael Ujiki, L. Michael Brunt, and Adnan A. Alseidi

Evaluation of the reliability of clinical staging of T2 N0 esophageal cancer: A review of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons database, Traves D. Crabtree, Andrzej S. Kosinski, Varun Puri, William Burfeind, Ankit Bharat, G. Alexander Patterson, Wayne Hofstetter, and Bryan F. Meyers

Impacts and challenges to education in academic international medicine during a global pandemic, Annelies De Wulf, Christina Bloem, Marian McDonald, Lorenzo Paladino, Donald Jeanmonod, Nicole Kaban, Veronica Tucci, Manish Garg, Sona Garg, Stanislaw Stawicki, Vesta Anilus, Edgar Miranda, and Rebecca Jeanmonod

Incorporating research into thoracic surgery practice, Thomas A. D'Amico, Betty C. Tong, Mark F. Berry, William R. Burfeind, and Mark W. Onaitis

Informed consent: a shared decision-making process that creates a new professional obligation for care, Arthur Rawlings, Arthur Rawlings, Lelan Sillin, Lelan Sillin, Phillip Shadduck, Phillip Shadduck, Marian McDonald, Peter Crookes, Peter Crookes, Bruce MacFadyen, Bruce MacFadyen, John Mellinger, Limaris Barrios, R. Ivan Beretvas, Charles Cheng, Jerry Cheriyan, Alberto Ferreres, Duke Jaspal, Robert Josloff, Jason Keune, Thom Lobe, Paresh Mane, Marian McDonald, Marian K. Mishra, Dana Portenier, Tameka Scott, Paul Severson, Vivian Strong, David Tichansky, and Vimalraj Velayutham

Intradiaphragmatic Bronchogenic Cysts: Case Report and Systematic Review, Ronnie Mubang, John Joseph Brady, Melissa Mao, William Burfeind, and Matthew Puc

Invited commentary, William R. Burfeind

Invited commentary, William R. Burfeind

Invited commentary, William R. Burfeind

Invited commentary, William Burfeind

Invited Commentary, William Burfeind

Laparoscopy in trauma: An overview of complications and related topics, Tammy Kindel, Nicholas Latchana, Mamta Swaroop, Umer I. Chaudhry, Sabrena F. Noria, Rachel L. Choron, Mark J. Seamon, Maggie J. Lin, Melissa Mao, James Cipolla, Maher El Chaar, Dane Scantling, Niels D. Martin, David C. Evans, Thomas J. Papadimos, and Stanislaw P. Stawicki

Management of Primary Soft Tissue Tumors of the Chest Wall, Anthony Cipriano and William Burfeind

Mortality and Respiratory Failure After Thoracoscopic Lung Biopsy for Interstitial Lung Disease, Michael T. Durheim, Sunghee Kim, Brian C. Gulack, William R. Burfeind, Henning A. Gaissert, Andrzej S. Kosinski, and Matthew G. Hartwig

National Quality Forum Metrics for Thoracic Surgery, Anthony Cipriano and William R. Burfeind

Non-invasive early detection of malignant pulmonary nodules by FISH-based sputum test, Dekel Shlomi, Nir Peled, Yehuda A. Schwarz, Guy W. Soo Hoo, Raj K. Batra, Gershon Fink, Tal Kaplan, Lahav Cohen, Scott Mollan, and William R. Burfeind

Obesity increases operating room time for lobectomy in the society of thoracic surgeons database, Jamii B. St. Julien, Melinda C. Aldrich, Shubin Sheng, Stephen A. Deppen, William R. Burfeind, Joe B. Putnam, Eric S. Lambright, Jonathan C. Nesbitt, and Eric L. Grogan

Oncologic Equivalence of Minimally Invasive Lobectomy: The Scientific and Practical Arguments, Todd L. Demmy, Sai Yendamuri, Thomas A. D'Amico, and William R. Burfeind

Outcomes of Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Decortication, Betty C. Tong, Jennifer Hanna, Eric M. Toloza, Mark W. Onaitis, Thomas A. D'Amico, David H. Harpole, and William R. Burfeind

Predictors of Major Morbidity or Mortality after Resection for Esophageal Cancer: A Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database Risk Adjustment Model, Daniel P. Raymond, Christopher W. Seder, Cameron D. Wright, Mitchell J. Magee, Andrzej S. Kosinski, Stephen D. Cassivi, Eric L. Grogan, Shanda H. Blackmon, Mark S. Allen, Bernard J. Park, William R. Burfeind, Andrew C. Chang, Malcolm M. DeCamp, David W. Wormuth, Felix G. Fernandez, and Benjamin D. Kozower

Preoperative CHA 2 DS 2 -VASc Score Predicts Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation after Lobectomy, Charles T. Lee, David M. Strauss, Lauren E. Stone, Jill C. Stoltzfus, Matthew M. Puc, and William R. Burfeind

Professionalism of surgery, Arthur L. Rawlings, Phillip P. Shadduck, Lelan F. Sillin, Peter F. Crookes, Bruce V. MacFadyen, Marian P. McDonald, Kenneth A. Forde, and John D. Mellinger

Pulmonary Function Tests Do Not Predict Pulmonary Complications After Thoracoscopic Lobectomy, Mark F. Berry, Nestor R. Villamizar-Ortiz, Betty C. Tong, William R. Burfeind, David H. Harpole, Thomas A. D'Amico, and Mark W. Onaitis

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Lung Cancer Surgical Stage: An STS Database Study, Benny Weksler, Andrzej S. Kosinski, William R. Burfeind, Scott C. Silvestry, Jennifer Sullivan, and Thomas A. D'Amico

Safe Cholecystectomy Multi-society Practice Guideline and State of the Art Consensus Conference on Prevention of Bile Duct Injury During Cholecystectomy, L. Michael Brunt, Daniel J. Deziel, Dana A. Telem, Steven M. Strasberg, Rajesh Aggarwal, Horacio Asbun, Jaap Bonjer, Marian McDonald, Adnan Alseidi, Mike Ujiki, Taylor S. Riall, Chet Hammill, Carol Anne Moulton, Philip H. Pucher, Rowan W. Parks, Mohammed T. Ansari, Saxon Connor, Rebecca C. Dirks, Blaire Anderson, Maria S. Altieri, Levan Tsamalaidze, and Dimitrios Stefanidis

Safe cholecystectomy multi-society practice guideline and state-of-the-art consensus conference on prevention of bile duct injury during cholecystectomy, L. Michael Brunt, Daniel J. Deziel, Dana A. Telem, Steven M. Strasberg, Rajesh Aggarwal, Horacio Asbun, Jaap Bonjer, Marian McDonald, Adnan Alseidi, Mike Ujiki, Taylor S. Riall, Chet Hammill, Carol Anne Moulton, Philip H. Pucher, Rowan W. Parks, Mohammed T. Ansari, Saxon Connor, Rebecca C. Dirks, Blaire Anderson, Maria S. Altieri, Levan Tsamalaidze, Dimitrios Stefanidis, Domenech Asbun, Chantel den Baaker, Luigi Boni, Ryan Campagna, Eugene Ceppa, Marie Crandall, Chris Davis, Shanley Deal, Scott Dojels, Ismael Domiguez-Rosado, and Leonie van Gastel

Sex differences in early outcomes after lung cancer resection: Analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Database, Betty C. Tong, Andrzej S. Kosinski, William R. Burfeind, Mark W. Onaitis, Mark F. Berry, David H. Harpole, and Thomas A. D'Amico

The American College of Academic International Medicine 2017 Consensus Statement on International Medical Programs: Establishing a system of objective valuation and quantitative metrics to facilitate the recognition and incorporation of academic international medical efforts into existing promotion and tenure paradigms, Gregory Peck, Manish Garg, Bonnie Arquilla, Vicente Gracias, Harry Anderson, Andrew Miller, Bhakti Hansoti, Paula Ferrada, Michael Firstenberg, Sagar Galwankar, Ramon Gist, Donald Jeanmonod, Rebecca Jeanmonod, Elizabeth Krebs, Marian McDonald, Benedict Nwomeh, James Orlando, Lorenzo Paladino, Thomas Papadimos, Robert Ricca, Joseph Sakran, Richard Sharpe, Mamta Swaroop, and Stanislaw P. Stawicki

The impact of comprehensive air purification on patient duration of stay, discharge outcomes, and health care economics: A retrospective cohort study, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, Samantha Wolfe, Chad Brisendine, Sherrine Eid, Matthew Zangari, Frank Ford, Beverly Snyder, William Moyer, Lee Levicoff, and William R. Burfeind

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Composite Score for Evaluating Esophagectomy for Esophageal Cancer, Andrew C. Chang, Andrzej S. Kosinski, Daniel P. Raymond, Mitchell J. Magee, Malcolm M. DeCamp, Farhood Farjah, Eric L. Grogan, Christopher W. Seder, Mark S. Allen, Justin D. Blasberg, Shanda H. Blackmon, William R. Burfeind, Stephen D. Cassivi, Bernard J. Park, David M. Shahian, David W. Wormuth, Jane M. Han, Cameron D. Wright, Felix G. Fernandez, and Benjamin D. Kozower

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Composite Score Rating for Pulmonary Resection for Lung Cancer, Stephen R. Broderick, Maria Grau-Sepulveda, Andrzej S. Kosinski, Paul A. Kurlansky, David M. Shahian, Jeffrey P. Jacobs, Susan Becker, Malcolm M. DeCamp, Christopher W. Seder, Eric L. Grogan, Lisa M. Brown, William Burfeind, Mitchell Magee, Daniel P. Raymond, Varun Puri, Andrew C. Chang, and Benjamin D. Kozower

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database: 2016 Update on Research, Henning A. Gaissert, Felix G. Fernandez, Mark S. Allen, William R. Burfeind, Mark I. Block, James M. Donahue, John D. Mitchell, Paul H. Schipper, Mark W. Onaitis, Andrzej S. Kosinski, Jeffrey P. Jacobs, David M. Shahian, Benjamin D. Kozower, Fred H. Edwards, Emily A. Conrad, and G. Alexander Patterson

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database: 2017 Update on Research, Henning A. Gaissert, Felix G. Fernandez, Traves Crabtree, William R. Burfeind, Mark S. Allen, Mark I. Block, Paul H. Schipper, Jeffrey P. Jacobs, Robert H. Habib, David M. Shahian, Elizabeth A. David, James M. Donahue, John D. Mitchell, Mark W. Onaitis, Andrzej S. Kosinski, Kristin Mathis, and Benjamin D. Kzower

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database 2018 Update on Outcomes and Quality, Christopher W. Seder, Daniel Raymond, Cameron D. Wright, Henning A. Gaissert, Andrew C. Chang, Susan Becker, Varun Puri, Robert Welsh, William Burfeind, Felix G. Fernandez, Lisa M. Brown, and Benjamin D. Kozower

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database 2019 Update on Outcomes and Quality, Christopher W. Seder, Mitchell J. Magee, Stephen R. Broderick, Lisa M. Brown, Justin D. Blasberg, Benjamin D. Kozower, Felix G. Fernandez, Robert J. Welsh, Henning A. Gaissert, William R. Burfeind, Susan Becker, and Daniel P. Raymond

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database: 2020 Update on Outcomes and Research, Elliot L. Servais, Christopher W. Towe, Lisa M. Brown, Stephen R. Broderick, Mark I. Block, William R. Burfeind, John D. Mitchell, Paul H. Schipper, Daniel P. Raymond, and Elizabeth A. David

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database: 2021 Update on Outcomes and Research, Elliot L. Servais, Christopher W. Towe, Farhood Farjah, Lisa M. Brown, Stephen R. Broderick, Mark I. Block, William R. Burfeind, John D. Mitchell, Paul H. Schipper, Daniel P. Raymond, and Elizabeth A. David

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Lung Cancer Resection Risk Model: Higher Quality Data and Superior Outcomes, Felix G. Fernandez, Andrzej S. Kosinski, William Burfeind, Bernard Park, Malcolm M. DeCamp, Christopher Seder, Blair Marshall, Mitchell J. Magee, Cameron D. Wright, and Benjamin D. Kozower