Thoracic Surgery: Where ’s the Controversy?

What ’s controversial in our field? Aren’t we all on the same page when it comes to patient care? No, we’re not; thus, Drs Lana Schumacher and David Griffin have offered up 12 areas where management may differ between thoracic surgeons or between surgeons and their medical specialty colleagues. The evidence doesn’t always support one consensus, and (apparently) there can be more than one way to skin a cat, so they say. With relevance to us, however, in the operating room and clinic is that there may be several ways to approach esophageal, lung, airway, and mediastinal disease, but robust ev idence lends guidance for best clinical practice.
Source: Thoracic Surgery Clinics - Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Tags: Foreword Source Type: research