robotic cardiac and general thoracic surgery, heart and lung transplantation, mechanical circulatory support, and structural heart trans-catheter interventions. In addition to institutional, faculty, ...

whereas catheters placed in a high position (between the 5th and 10th thoracic vertebrae) had a 39% incidence of complications. Independent of catheter position, the administration of ampicillin ...

Research by Boston Children's validates an innovative approach to mapping the heart's invisible conduction tissue during surgery.

The pleura, a single layer of mesothelial cells, lines the entire thoracic cavity ... thought to be less reactive than the red rubber of catheters commonly (and acceptably) employed in thoracostomy.