CTSNet Summarized—Top Cardiac Procedure Videos of 2024

Variety and innovation were abundant in this year’s cardiac surgery clinical videos. The most popular videos focused on a range of cardiac procedures, from tips and tricks for cardiopulmonary bypass to the world’s first robotic heart transplant. Read on for a glance at each procedure and check out the full CTSNet catalog of cardiac surgical videos. 

1.) Tips, Tricks, and Pitfalls for Cardiopulmonary Bypass 

By Stephen Spindel, Reginald Du, Jasmine Su, Autumn Stevenson

The most popular cardiac video this year describes the set up and pitfalls for cardiopulmonary bypass, including common types of arterial and venous access, as well as cardioplegia routes and venting strategies. 

2.) Breaking Dogma in Aortic Valve Replacement: The Nine Suture AVR Technique 

By Stephen Spindel, Katrina Jiang, Luis Castro

Another popular video from this year demonstrates a suture placement technique for aortic valve replacement that breaks with tradition. 

3.) Total Arch Replacement With the Frozen Elephant Trunk Technique 

By German Fortunato, Ricardo Posatini, Ana Cases, Catalina Pezzoto, Vadim Kotowicz

The authors of this case typically prefer to use a hybrid approach for total arch replacement, however, in this case they decided to go in a different direction. This video demonstrates a frozen elephant trunk (FET) using an E-vita Open Neo. 

4.) The World's First Robotic Heart Transplant at King Faisal Hospital in Riyadh 

By Feras Khaliel, Joel Dunning 

Next on the list is a video that shows the first-ever robotic heart transplant in full resolution. The video of this groundbreaking procedure was shared by lead surgeon Dr. Feras Khaliel. 

5.) Commando Procedure in a Patient With Aortic and Mitral Valve Prostheses: Fourth Intervention for Bacterial Endocarditis 

By Domenico Mangino, Paolo Magagna, Stefano Cisico

Finally, the authors of this video present the case of a thirty-year-old woman who underwent a commando procedure to treat bacterial endocarditis.  

View the top cardiac videos from 2023 here.  

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