Background This review aims to examine the existing literature to address currently used
virtual, augmented, and mixed reality modalities in the areas of preoperative surgical …

We are in a “Brave New World” that is unchartered and open for progress and potential
paradigm shifts. What was supposed to be a memorable year for the American Association …

A multidisciplinary care team model, or Heart Team approach, has become a central tenet of
cardiovascular care. Though initially applied to the management of heart transplantation and …

Virtual reality (VR) is an emerging technology that enables creation of digital objects and
virtual animations in a digital immersive environment that can be visualised and interacted …

Effective teamwork in the online environment is essential to patient care and safety. The
need for training health professionals to work together on a virtual interprofessional team …

The first quarter of 2020 saw unprecedented global, national, and local changes as the
world adapted to a pandemic that swept the world at an alarming rate and prompted a policy …

OBJECTIVES When surgical resection is indicated for a congenital lung abnormality (CLA),
lobectomy is often preferred over segmentectomy, mostly because the latter is associated …

Objectives The current report describes a single operator's experience of the first use of
smartglass technology as a facilitator of virtual support during TAVR proctoring. Background …

Background In their latest guidelines for infective endocarditis (IE)(2015), the European
Society of Cardiology (ESC) introduced the implementation of the Endocarditis Team (ET) to …

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges
to the world's health care systems and society at large. In addition, the cardiothoracic …