http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Cardiothoracic surgeons and endocrinologists from Boston Medical Center (BMC) have found that among patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, achieving Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) benchmarks for glycemic control may be irrelevant when perioperative continuous insulin infusion protocols are implemented. These findings appear on-line in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-relevance-scip-benchmarks-cabg-patients.html Surgery Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:17:47 EST news271689458 A lung screening and surveillance task force, established by the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) and led by medical professionals from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), is strongly recommending new guidelines for lung cancer screening. The guidelines were published this week in the online edition of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (JTCVS). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-task-lung-cancer-screening-guidelines.html Surgery Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:21:39 EST news259507257 A recent study conducted by Northwestern Medicine® researchers published in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, reveals that patients with an abnormal heart rhythm known as atrial fibrillation (A-fib) who are undergoing cardiac surgery, have a lower long-term survival rate compared with patients who are in sinus rhythm, which is the normal beating of the heart. The data also suggests that when surgeons successfully treat A-fib during the previously planned cardiac surgery, the patients' survival rate levels out and becomes the same as someone who never had A-fib. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-atrial-fibrillation-surgically-cardiac-surgery.html Cardiology Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:41:54 EST news254652090 Two-year-old Owen Stark came to St. Louis Children's Hospital in the summer of 2010 near death from heart failure and dangerously high blood pressure in his lungs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-washington-university-surgeons-successfully-artificial.html Other Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:11:24 EST news227455856