Doctors performing emergency heart surgery in Australia were not expecting this type of complication – a flash fire that broke out in the patient’s exposed chest cavity. The rare incident was made ...

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At this year's Euroanaesthesia Congress (the annual meeting of the European Society of Anaesthesiology) in Vienna, Austria (1-3 June), doctors present the unique case of a man who suffered a flash ...

A fire raged through the chest cavity of a man during heart surgery in a rare incident, according to doctors. Surgeons were performing emergency heart surgery on an unnamed 60-year-old patient, when ...

Johns Hopkins students have devised a better way to close up the chest cavity after open-heart surgery. What surprised me the most about this news is that for a half-century, this is what we've been ...

A less painful treatment strategy for Pneumothorax treatment has been created by scientists. By analyzing the partial pressure of oxygen and carbon dioxide in thoracic cavity gas during Pneumothorax ...

Hemothorax is bleeding and blood accumulating around your lung. This usually happens after an injury to the chest area. Some underlying health conditions can lead to bleeding in the chest cavity, as ...

Mechanical engineers and surgeons from the University of Magdeburg jointly develop a training model for operations in the thoracic cavity Engineers and physicians at Otto von Guericke University ...

A few hours delay in reaching the hospital would have cost 20-year-old Santosh Rabat, who works in a brick kiln his life. Santosh was living with a 17-cm-long rapidly growing tumour in his chest ...

The symptoms: For 10 days, pus oozed from an opening in the man's chest below his right nipple, prompting him to visit the emergency room. He told doctors he had no pain or difficulty breathing. He ...

Thoracic endometriosis is endometriosis that grows in the lungs or chest. It is an uncommon complication of this disease. Because it is rare, thoracic endometriosis is often misdiagnosed or diagnosed ...

At this year's Euroanaesthesia Congress (the annual meeting of the European Society of Anaesthesiology) in Vienna, Austria (1-3 June), doctors present the unique case of a man who suffered a flash ...