#13: CTSNet Beat Podcast: Interview With Umberto Benedetto, Study on NHS and Private Hospitals, and ISMICS Guidelines

This Beat episode, hosted by Joel Dunning, focuses on the new ISMICS guidelines on TAVI versus SAVR, STS podcasts, the Mitral Foundation website, a new study on atezolizumab, and a UK National database comparison of outcomes between NHS hospitals and private hospitals and an interview with the comparison's author Umberto Benedetto. For more information on this episode's topics, links are provided:

1. Thourani VH, Edelman JJ, Holmes SD, Nguyen TC, Carroll J, Mack MJ, et al. The International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Expert Consensus Statement on Transcatheter and Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Low- and Intermediate-Risk Patients: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized and Propensity-Matched Studies. Innovations. First Published January 25, 2021.
2. STS Podcasts
3. The Mitral Foundation
4. Atezolizumab in addition to surgery in patients with lung cancer
5. Disparity in clinical outcomes after cardiac surgery between private and public (NHS) payers in England