Fostering the Cardiothoracic Team: An International Perspective

Filmed at the 2018 STS Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Jill Ley of the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, California, USA, moderates a discussion on developing and fostering cardiothoracic surgical teams. She is joined by Patricia Keegan of the Emory Structural Heart Team in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Tara Bartley of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, UK, Joel Dunning of the James Cook University in Middlesbrough, UK, and Richard Van Valen of Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands. They discuss the evolution of their structural heart teams, the importance of collaboration for nursing education curriculums, and strategies to promote communication and patient safety.