ThorSurg was designed for surgeons, or any health care provider, who treats patients with diseases of the chest. Although the primary focus of the ThorSurg DB is lung and esophageal cancer, patients with benign or other malignancies of the chest can be tracked using this program.

ThorSurg provides busy surgeons with faster more accurate method for entering patient records. The result is an electronic file containing patient information, what was done, where it was done, and the diagnoses for which it was done.

Andy Kiser, MD, intuitively designed the ThorSurg system so that even a beginning Palm user would be proficient at adding new records! One of the unique features to the program are the pre-populated popup menus and linked databases which minimizes the need for graffiti, resulting in a more accurate and quicker means for entering patient records. Patient records can be easily managed using the built-in options for sorting, filtering, and searching.

Along with the ThorSurg application, your software includes a copy of the HanDBase desktop, which is the database engine running ThorSurg. The desktop program offers an easy and efficient means to manage your patient data, such as exporting, printing, archiving, data entry, and more.

ThorSurg Handheld Features:

• Filter, sort, and search features makes managing your data fast and efficient
• Print, beam, copy, export, delete, and copy template directly from your Palm.
• Note fields can be expanded to a full screen view, resulting in easier data that is easier to view and enter.
• Export your records directly to your Palm Memo Pad
• Resizable column drag-and-drop feature makes optimizing the list view screen a snap.

• Ability to add, edit field & records in ThorSurg
• Exporting directly to Excel (MS-Excel 97, 2000, 2002(XP)), CSV, Word, HTML, or XML formats
• Plug-In-Architecture for 3rd party add-ons
• Multiple database merging
• Tabular and detailed printing options

• Name
• Medical Record Number
• Address
• Date of Birth
• Gender
• Referring MD with phone and fax numbers as a linked database
• Date of admission, operation, and discharge

• Surgeon?s Name
• Weight
• Physical Disability (Zubrod Score)
• Past Medical History
• Past Surgical History
• Tobacco Use
• Risk Factors for Cancer
• Sign and Symptoms
• Pulmonary Function Tests
• Arterial Blood Gases
• Ventilation/Perfusion Scan
• Record of Imaging
• Location of lesion
• Physical Exam Findings
• Clinical Stage of Cancer

• Bronchoscopy
• Needle Biopsy
• Mediastinoscopy
• Esophagoscopy
• Thoracoscopy

• Date
• Surgeon
• Assistant
• Incision
• Side
• Description of Operation
• Chest Wall resection and reconstruction
• Bronchial stump coverage and closure
• Pleural Disease

• PreOp Chemotherapy
• Surgeon
• Assistant
• Description of Operation
• Type of conduit used
• Location of anastamosis
• Location of conduit
• Findings at repeat esophagoscopy

Pathology:

• Histology
• Tumor Size
• Nodes sampled
• Nodes positive
• Margins
• Closest margin
• Pathologic Staging

• Oncologist
• Chemotherapy used
• Date of administration and termination
• Toxicity

• Date of first treatment
• Rads administered per day
• Running total Rads administered during treatment
• Date of completion

• Type of complication
• Date of complication
• Cause of death
• Date of death

• Pathologic stage
• Date of visit
• Date of operation
• Weight
• Amount of pain at visit
• Signs and symptoms
• Physical exam
• CXR findings
• CT findings
• New complications
• Recurrence data

• Date of Surgery
• Date of airleak
• Number of chest tubes
• Date air leak stopped
• Date chest tubes removed
• Calculated number of days with air leak and chest tubes
• Type of sealent used
• Mechanism of air leak control at operation