Researchers from an international collaborative team have found that prehospital resuscitative thoracotomy (RT) is feasible and associated with improved survival for traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA) ...

Once asleep, they’ll carefully position you on the operating table for your surgery. A thoracotomy is an open surgery that helps your surgeon reach your lungs. It also helps them see other ...

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The 63-year-old physiotherapist needed a rare and complex procedure called a Clamshell Thoracotomy to relieve a cardiac tamponade, a condition where blood builds up around the heart, preventing it ...

The procedure used for this - known as "clamshell thoracotomy" - is still relatively new in this country. However, this procedure often gives the patient a far greater chance of survival.