Safety of Air Travel Post Pneumothorax and Post Lung Resection
BACKGROUND As thoracic surgeons, our patients look to us to guide their safe recovery and return to normal activities. In this guideline we address the safety of commercial air travel …
Optimizing LOS after Lobectomy
Optimizing Length of Stay after Lobectomy Authors: Najib Safieddine, Sean McFadden Summary of Recommendations Preop Patient education that includes family members and social supports Council re smoking cessation and …
Guidelines for Enhanced Recovery After Lung Surgery (ERAS)
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
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 …
Indications for Surgical Lung Biopsy and Risk Stratification
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 …
Subsolid Lung Nodule, Invasive Lung Cancer & Metastatetomy
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 …
Position on E-cigarettes
CATS Position on E-cigarettes Background The major reason people will use e-cigarettes, or vape as it is commonly known, is for nicotine intake. The e-cigarette devices and the available products …
Brain Imaging in Lung Cancer Staging
Recommendation Regarding Brain Imaging in Lung Cancer Staging. Background: Brain imaging is an important component of the accurate staging of newly diagnosed patients with non-small cell and small cell lung …
Surgical Wait-Times for Resectable Lung Cancer
Surgical Wait-Times for Resectable Lung Cancer. Recommendations: For patients with lung cancer whose primary treatment modality is surgical resection, time from referral* for initial consultation to resection should not exceed …
Perioperative VTE Prophylaxis
Recommendation for Thoracic Surgery Perioperative VTE Prophylaxis. Background: It is now widely accepted that the true incidence of post-op VTE following lung and esophageal resection is largely under-reported. A large …