Thoracic surgical history and examination
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Practicals · THOR
156 practical items from the NBEMS DrNB curriculum, grouped by the curriculum's own sections.
Links point to videos and pages published by others; SolvedPGSS does not host them. Check any technique against your department's protocol before you use it on a patient.
Top education resources
Video libraries, simulators and animations that residents and published reviews rate highly. We opened every link and checked it plays (8 Oct 2026). Ranked best first.
Adult cardiac, congenital, thoracic and aortic operative videos, techniques, step-by-step series, AI oral-board practice
Largest CT video library; plays on ctsnet.org without login, while many of the same videos on YouTube are age-gated
Core skills, cardiac (CABG, valve, mitral repair), congenital, thoracic (VATS/robotic), aortic; Penn Box home-simulation modules for sternotomy, cannulation and coronary anastomosis
About 500 peer-reviewed narrated step-by-step tutorials, re-reviewed about every 3 years; named in three CT training papers
Cardiac and aortic operations, CV fellows' boot camp (anastomosis), ACHD and conference webcasts, Aortic Surgery Video Textbook
3000+ faculty-reviewed CV videos with no age gate on the ones tested; cited in two JTCVS training papers
20 standard ASE/SCA TEE views on a rotatable 3D heart with matched echo loops; alternative views, colour Doppler, pathology
Free in-browser probe/plane simulator for intra-op TEE; creators' study in anaesthesia, cardiology and cardiac surgery fellows showed a 31% test-score gain
Uniportal VATS lobectomy, segmentectomy, sleeve and bronchoplastic resections, including unedited full-length cases
Channel of the surgeon who developed uniportal VATS; 600 videos, many unedited start-to-finish
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