Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons
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Management of Pericardial Effusions – When to Intervene, and How? Dhruvin H. Hirpara Najib Safieddine Background Pericardial effusions are often classified based on size, with small effusions (50-100mL) measuring less …
Management of Empyema Basil Nasir Najib Safieddine Background Empyema, or pus in the pleural space, in its various clinical manifestations and stages is a common occurrence that thoracic surgeons are …
Guidelines for Enhanced Recovery After Lung Surgery (ERAS) Armen Parajian1 1 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Lakeridge Health Oshawa and The Durham Regional Cancer Center, Oshawa ON, Canada Background Enhanced Recovery …
Preoperative Physiologic Assessment Prior to Pulmonary Resection Simon Turner1, Serena Shum2, Tim van Haaften2 1Thoracic Surgery, University of Alberta 2Anesthesiology, University of Alberta Background Anatomic lung resection is the gold …
ILD: Indications for Surgical Lung Biopsy and Risk Stratification Authors: Laura Donahoe & Sean McFadden Reviewer: Anne-Sophie Laliberte & Andrew Seely Recommendations: Surgical lung biopsy should only be performed in …
Follow Up and Surveillance of Esophageal Cancer Treated With Curative Intent Authors: Anne-Sophie Laliberté, MD. FRCSC Reviewers : Brian Johnston and Andrew Seely Society recommendations Based on society recommendations and expert …
Guideline on the Prescription and Management of Opioids After Elective Ambulatory Thoracic Surgery Background Although the extent of contribution of post-surgical opioid prescription to the opioid crisis in Canada (and …
Recommendation for the Management of Malignant Pleural Effusions Daniel Jones, Laura Donahoe, Najib Safieddine Background Malignant pleural effusions (MPE) is a common diagnosis in patients with late stage cancer. The …
Best Practice Recommendations on Enhanced Recovery after Thoracic Surgery (ERATS) for Esophagectomy N Seyednejad, B. Johnson, G. Darling, A. Seely Background Enhanced Recovery After Surgery aims to approach the care …
Intraoperative Mediastinal Lymphnode Sampling vs Dissection for Subsolid Lung Nodule, Invasive Lung Cancer and Metastatetomy Basil Nasir, Simon Turner, Gail Darling Summary of Recommendations* *For complete discussion, rationale, definitions and …