Management of Intra-operative Crises is reviewed extensively in this important Thoracic Surgery Clinics of North America issue. Articles include: Massive Airway Hemorrhage; Great Vessel Injury; Endotracheal Tube Management and Obstructed Airway; Perioperative or Operative Pulmonary Embolus; Acute Intraoperative Aspiration; Patent Mammary Disruption During Thoracic Surgery; Immediate Post-lobectomy Crisis Management; Cardiopulmonary Bypass, Rapid Pacing, and ECMO for Emergent Intraoperative Thoracic Situations; Unexplained Intraoperative Hypotension; Coagulopathy & Anticoagulation during Thoracic Surgery; Perioperative Pneumonectomy Management; Pulmonary Artery Bleeding during VATS; Tracheal Repair and Airway Management; and more!

This issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics, guest edited by Drs. Vincenzo Ambrogi and Tommaso Mineo, is devoted to Nonintubated Thoracic Surgery. Drs. Ambrogi and Mineo have assembled expert authors to review the following topics: Technical issues and patient safety in nonintubated thoracic anesthesia; Management of primary and secondary pneumothorax in nonintubated VATS; Treatment of pleural effusions with nonintubated VATS; Nonintubated VATS for chest infections; Nonintubated VATS lung biopsy for interstitial lung disease; Nonintubated VATS wedge resection of peripheral early lung cancer; Anatomical segmentectomy in nonintubated VATS; VATS lobectomy for lung cancer in nonintubated anesthesia; Nonintubated VATS tracheal and bronchial sleeve resection for lung cancer; Nonintubated tracheal surgery; Management of intraoperative crisis during nonintubated thoracic surgery; Team training for nonintubated thoracic surgery; and more!

This issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Pier Luigi Filosso, is devoted to Clinical Management of Chest Tubes. Dr. Filosso has assembled expert authors to review the following topics: Chest Tubes Throughout the Centuries: An Overview of Pleural Space Drainage Across History; Generalities of Chest Tubes; Chest Tube Placement After Pulmonary Resection; Thoracic Trauma: Which Chest Tube?; Chest Tube Placement in Pleural Effusions and Pneumothorax; Modern Techniques to Insert Chest Tubes; Suction or Non-suction?: How to Manage a Chest Tube After Pulmonary Resection; When to Remove a Chest Tube?; Indwelling Pleural Catheters: A Clinical Option in Trapped Lung; Errors in Chest Tube Placement; and more!

Prevention and Management of Post-Operative Complications is reviewed extensively in this important Thoracic Surgery Clinics of North America issue. Articles include: Cardiovascular complications following thoracic surgery; Pain management following thoracic surgery; Persistent air leak and pleural space management following pulmonary resection; Bronchopleural fistula and empyema after anatomic lung resection; Postoperative respiratory failure; Complications following carinal surgery and bronchial sleeve resection; Anastomotic leak following esophagectomy; Management of conduit necrosis following esophagectomy; Functional conduit disorders complicating esophagectomy; Complications following surgery for achalasia and anti-reflux disease; Complications following tracheal and laryngotracheal resection; Management of thoracic nerve injury; Chest wall resection and reconstruction: management of complications; Management of chylothorax; and more!

This issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics of North America focuses on Innovations in Thoracic Surgery. Articles will include: Advances in Image Guided Thoracic Surgery; Evolving Applications of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) in Thoracic Surgery; Novel Technologies for Isolated Lung Perfusion – Beyond Lung Transplant; Peroral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM) for Achalasia; Bioengineered Organs: Dream or a Reality?; Credentialing for New Technology; Endoscopic Resection and Ablation for Early Stage Esophageal Cancer; Novel Technologies in Bronchoscopic Lung Volume Reduction; Advances in Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery: Pushing the Envelope; Guided Bronchoscopy for Peripheral Pulmonary Nodules; Nanotechnology: Applications in Thoracic Surgery?; Present and Future Application of Energy Devices in Thoracic Surgery; and more!

This issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics is devoted to "Advanced Lung Cancer: Radical Surgical Therapy" and is edited by Dr. Raja M. Flores. Articles in this outstanding issue include: Surgical Resection of Lung Cancer in the Elderly; Extended Chest Wall Resection and Reconstruction in the Setting of Lung Cancer; The Management of Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer with Oligometastases; Lung Resection in Patients with Marginal Pulmonary Function; Surgery for Small Cell Lung Cancer; Bronchial and Arterial Sleeve Resection after Induction Therapy for Lung Cancer; Advanced Lung Cancer: Aggressive Surgical Therapy Vertebral Body Involvement; Pulmonary Resection after Pneumonectomy; Superior Vena Caval Resection in Lung Cancer; Surgical Resection of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer with N2 Disease; Lung Transplantation for Multifocal Lung Adenocarcinoma; Extended Resections of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancers Invading the Aorta, Pulmonary Artery, Left Atrium or Esophagus: Can They Be Justified?; VATS Lobectomy after Induction Therapy; Extrapleural Pneumonectomy for Pleural Disease; Carinal Resection, and more!

Lung Cancer Screening is reviewed extensively in this important Thoracic Surgery Clinics of North America issue. Articles include: CT screening: The Early Lung Cancer Action Program Experience; Lung Cancer Screening: The Mayo Experience; National Lung Screening Trial; Health Risks from CT Lung Cancer Screening; The European Perspective of Lung Cancer Screening; Surgeons and Lung Cancer Screening: Rules of Engagement; The National Comprehensive Cancer Network Recommendations for Lung Cancer Screening; The United States Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations for Lung Cancer Screening; Current Estimate of Costs of Lung Cancer Screening in the US; Refining Strategies to Identify Population to be Screened for Lung Cancer; Long-term Oncologic and Financial Implications of Lung Cancer Screening; and more!

Lung Transplantation is covered in detail in this important issue of the Thoracic Surgery Clinics. Articles include: Candidacy for Lung Transplant and Lung Allocation; ECMO as Bridge to Lung Transplant; Single Versus Double Lung Transplant: Do Guidelines Exist?; Extending the Donor Pool: Donation After Cardiac Death; Extending the Donor Pool: Rehabilitation of Poor Organs; Bronchial Artery Revascularization; Anastomotic Airway Complications Following Lung Transplantation: Implications and Interventions; Pleural Space Complications Associated with Lung Transplantation; Reflux and Allograft Dysfunction, Is there a Connection?; Artificial Lungs: Are We There Yet?; and more.

This issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics of North America focuses on Pulmonary Metastasectomy. Articles will include: Biology of Pulmonary Metastases; Preoperative Evaluations and Indications for Metastasectomy; Open Approaches to Pulmonary Metastases: Thoracotomy and Sternotomy; Ablative Approaches for Pulmonary Metastases: RFA, microwave, SBRT; Role of Lymphadenectomy with Pulmonary Metastasectomy; Results of Pulmonary Resection: Colorectal Carcinoma; Results of Pulmonary Resection: Sarcoma and Germ Cell Tumors; Isolated Lung Perfusion; Immunotherapy; Medical Management of Pulmonary Metastases: Is There a Role for Surgery?; Thoracoscopic Management of Pulmonary Metastases; Results of Pulmonary Resection: Other Epithelial Malignancies; Thoracoscopic Lung Suffusion; and more!

This issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Gaetano Rocco, is devoted to Single-port/Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery. Dr. Rocco has assembled expert authors to review the following topics: The Geometric and Ergonomic Appeal of Uniportal VATS; Management of Intraoperative Difficulties During Uniportal VATS; Hybrid Theatre and Uniportal VATS: the Perfect Match for Lung Nodule Localization; Important Technical Details in Uniportal VATS Standard Major Pulmonary Resections; When Uniportal VATS is Contraindicated; Subxyphoid Uniportal VATS Procedures; Uniportal VATS Segmentectomy; The Case for Non Intubated/Awake Anesthesia for Uniportal VATS Procedures; Uniportal VATS Esophagectomy; Complex Pulmonary Resections Through Uniportal VATS; Training in Uniportal VATS; Fast-tracking Patients Through the Diagnostic and Therapeutic Pathways of Intrathoracic Conditions: the Role of Uniportal VATS; and more!