According to Newsweek, 13 of the top 20 hospitals for cardiac surgery in the entire world are located in the United States. The list includes 150 hospitals in total.

Peripheral nerve blocks are associated with modest reductions in pain and opioid use after cardiothoracic surgery, with few reported harms; however, the strength of evidence remains low.

On a bright day in May 1953, American surgeon John Gibbon performed the first ever successful open-heart operation with a heart-lung machine, which he and his wife Mary had developed. This ...

GREENBRAE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MarinHealth is proud to announce the launch of its new Cardiothoracic Surgery Program, as part of the MarinHealth Heart and Vascular Institute, to provide advanced ...

Michael Fischbein, MD, PhD, the Thelma and Henry Doelger Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at Stanford Medicine and the 2023-2024 President of the Western Thoracic Surgical Association (WTSA), took ...

A Black woman is breaking barriers for other minorities in surgical fields. Dr. Africa Wallace, director of Thoracic Surgery at Capital Health, was tapped as the president of the Eastern ...

Guwahati: The northeast witnessed its first robotic cardiac surgeries at Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), with three patients successfully undergoing procedures in the past two days.Get ...

Machine learning predicted postoperative delirium after cardiac surgery, with random forest showing the strongest performance ...

The Stanford Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery is sad to announce the passing of Louis "Lou" Capecci, MD, who died on March 11, 2024, at the age of 40, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Dr. Capecci, a dedicated ...

When heart surgery becomes necessary, patients and their families need confidence in both the surgeon and the team guiding ...

Johannes R. Kratz, MD, has been named as the inaugural chief of UCSF’s Division of Thoracic Surgery, one of the leading academic robotic thoracic surgery programs in the western U.S. He brings a track ...

Robert Binford, M.D.: atrial fibrillation, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, heart valve surgery, robotic cardiac surgery; Overlake Clinics – Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department Cardiothoracic ...