Under Armour - Use of personal protective equipment for simulated CPR of COVID-19 patients: an observational study.

Background: Personal protective equipment (PPE) protects healthcare workers and patients. Data on guideline compliance on how to dress (donning) or remove (doffing) PPE and the assistance among multiple participants (buddying) are limited. This study assesses the quality of donning, doffing, and buddying of PPE in a simulated medical emergency.

Reoperative laparoscopic fundoplication for the treatment of failed fundoplication.

Objective: This study was undertaken to determine the safety and efficacy of reoperative laparoscopic fundoplication for patients with failed fundoplication.

Methods: Thirty-nine of 612 consecutive patients who had undergone fundoplication underwent laparoscopic reoperative fundoplication for recurrent symptoms, persistent dysphagia, or gas bloat. An additional 15 patients were referred from outside facilities for reoperation.

Segmental resection spares pulmonary function in patients with stage I lung cancer.

Background: Segmental resection for stage I non-small cell lung cancer remains controversial. Reports suggest that segmentectomy confers no advantage in preserving lung function and compromises survival. This study was undertaken to assess the validity of those assertions.

Comparison between sublobar resection and 125Iodine brachytherapy after sublobar resection in high-risk patients with Stage I non-small-cell lung cancer.

Background: Sublobar resection (SR) can be performed in high-risk non-small-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) patients but is associated with an increased local recurrence. This abstract reviews our intraoperative (125)Iodine brachytherapy experience after SR in high-risk Stage I NSCLC patients and compares these results with our previous series of SR alone in similar patients.

Methods: One hundred two Stage I NSCLC patients who underwent SR alone were compared with 101 Stage I patients who underwent SR and intraoperative (125)Iodine brachytherapy placed over the SR staple line.

Bilateral anterior minithoracotomy with video assistance for lung volume reduction surgery and pulmonary metastasectomy.

Incisional access to pulmonary pathology involving both lungs has often involved bilateral standard thoracotomies, median sternotomy, and, recently, sequential lateral video-assisted thoracic surgical approaches. Significant problems are inherent to each of these approaches. We introduce a hybrid technique of bilateral simultaneous minithoracotomy with video assistance as an alternative to these other surgical approaches.