Thoracic Surgery Subscription-Based Review

This comprehensive review is designed to enhance your clinical knowledge base and help you pass your Thoracic Surgery exams. Emphasis is on evidence-based medicine and board-relevant standards of care, incorporating current best practice concepts, surgical approaches, and clinical follow-up strategies.

As a result, this course provides a good review for your ABTS exams and a thorough review for physicians in practice. In addition, many of our previous participants found the course provided them with:

• Improved diagnostic and planning strategies
• A better understanding of the best surgical and non-surgical treatment approaches for the principal areas covered by Thoracic Surgeons
• Helped them recognize areas of weakness for further study

Objectives

After this review, each participant will be able to:

1. Describe the fundamentals of the basic science underpinnings of the thoracic surgical technique
2. Discuss evidence-based diagnostic procedures and therapeutic techniques
3. Describe preoperative, operative, and postoperative patient care procedures
4. Summarize the principles of surgical technique for the principal areas covered by Thoracic Surgeons
5. Discuss the appropriate application of non-operative management options

Faculty and Topics

Bassem Mora, MD, MBA

Congenital Heart Disease I-III

Cardiomyopathy

Syed S. Razi, MD

Benign Esophageal Diseases

Esophageal Neoplasms

Lung Neoplasms

Pulmonary Surgery

Veronica Shuyin Liang, MD

Pleura Diseases

Chest Wall

Diaphragmatic Hernias

Pulmonary Infections

Peter I. Tsai MD

Cardiac and Thoracic Trauma

Aortic Valve Disease

Mitral Valve Disease

Amit Pawale, MD, FACS

Heart Transplantation

Coronary Artery Disease and Bypass Grafting

Mechanical Assist Devices

Extracorporeal Perfusion

Cardiac Tumors

Vahram Ornekian, MD

Transfusion and Coagulation Disorders

Trachea and Pericardium

Mediastinum