In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Samer Nashef, a consultant cardiac surgeon at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, about complications in cardiothoracic surgery.
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December 12, 2025
The recent webinar, "Optimizing Myocardial Protection in Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery: Contemporary Strategies and Emerging Techniques," brought together three leading experts in robotic cardiac surgery to share practical insights and review emerging evidence supporting myocardial protection in less invasive procedures.
December 12, 2025
In this second episode of the Case of the Month, thoracic surgeon and CTSNet Senior Editor Leanne Ashrafian is joined by CTSNet Senior Editor Lorena Montes, CTSNet Senior Editor Cristina Ruiz Segria, and nurse educator Jill Ley to discuss “Cardiac Complications.”
December 12, 2025
This video demonstrates a complex case involving a double valve repair and anomalous pulmonary venous return with atrial septal defect repair managed endoscopically.
December 11, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Laurens Ceulemans, thoracic surgeon at the University Hospitals Leuven in Belgium, about lung volume reduction.
December 11, 2025
Fifty-seven US organizations representing the Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) signed a letter of support for Advanced Practice Nursing professionals in response to the US Department of Education’s recently proposed change that would exclude postbaccalaureate nursing programs from the official regulatory definition of a "professional degree program."
December 11, 2025
This video demonstrates an endoscopic approach to a high-risk operation for a deteriorating tricuspid valve bioprosthesis (high attenuating leaflet thickening).
December 10, 2025
This video demonstrates an approach to robotic surgery with fibrillatory arrest.
December 9, 2025
This video demonstrates a clinical case report and accompanying intraoperative footage of a laparoscopic transgastric resection of surgical mesh that was previously placed for hiatal hernia repair and had eroded through the gastroesophageal junction.
December 5, 2025
At the 2025 EACTS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Cristina Ruiz Segria spoke with Karin Hinterbuchner, a registered nurse at Tirol Kliniken GmbH in Austria, about EACTS fellowships.
December 5, 2025
This video shows an endoscopic complex left ventricular post-infarction aneurysm repair with concomitant mitral valve repair.