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A specialist in cardiothoracic surgery is a physician who conducts operations on chest organs, including the heart, lungs, and esophagus. The heart and lungs are crucial bodily organs, supplying blood…

General anesthesia is a medical treatment that uses drugs to put a patient into a state of controlled unconsciousness. It's used to keep patients from feeling pain and moving during…

General anesthesia is a medical treatment that uses drugs to put a patient into a state of controlled unconsciousness. It's used to keep patients from feeling pain and moving during…

A local muscle flap is a surgical procedure that involves moving muscle tissue from one part of the body to another, typically to cover a wound or defect.

Local tissue rearrangement, also known as adjacent tissue transfer (ATT/R), is a medical procedure that involves moving healthy tissue from one part of the body to cover a skin defect…

A local tissue transfer, also known as an adjacent tissue transfer (ATT/R) or rearrangement procedure, is a medical procedure that moves healthy tissue from one part of the body to…

Local anesthesia combined with monitored anesthesia care (MAC) is a type of anesthesia that involves a combination of sedation, pain control, and local numbing of the surgical site.

A multi-staged procedure is a series of medical procedures performed over multiple sessions or days.

Sternal reconstruction is a surgical procedure that stabilizes the chest wall to reduce the risk of respiratory complications and prolonged mechanical ventilation. The goal is also to protect the mediastinum…