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The Beat Podcast Series
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This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning discusses how to be a better trainer. He explores tips for training people, the five levels of training, and sensory overload. Later in the... More
March 23, 2021
This Beat episode discusses CT training models, postop day 1 discharge after lobectomy, and an overview of anatomy for robotic lobectomy.
March 9, 2021
This Beat episode discusses 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 with the author Umberto Benedetto.
February 23, 2021
This Beat episode discusses the latest on robotic diaphragm plication and "robotic-alternative" instrumentation, decreasing overutilization of postoperative chest X-rays, and the current CT surgery job market.
February 16, 2021
This Beat episode, hosted by Jessica Luc, MD, covers part two of a two-part discussion on vaccines.
February 10, 2021
This week's episode: the status of COVID-19 survivors after ECMO, trial on advanced reperfusion strategies, decrease in adult surgeries, and analysis of robotically-assisted congenital cardiac surgery.
January 26, 2021
Brian Mitzman presents the latest Beat podcast, focusing on the STS 2021 virtual meeting, as well as recent submissions to CTSNet and the European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery.
January 13, 2021
This Beat episode, hosted by Joel Dunning, MD, covers part one of a two-part discussion on vaccines. Dr Dunning reviews three papers on the three COVID-19 vaccines currently available.
December 28, 2020
CTSNet published over 60 podcast episodes in 2020. As the year comes to a close, the CTSNet staff present the five most popular podcast episodes published in 2020.
December 15, 2020
This Beat episode, hosted by Joel Dunning, MD, and joined by Enoch Akowuah, MD, both of the James Cook University Hospital, UK, discusses lawsuits against surgical stapler manufactures; MAVRIC and the UK mini mitral trials; and mitraclip MR repair, Easy-AS, and segmentectomy vs. lobectomy studies.
November 23, 2020
This Beat episode, featuring Brian Mitzman, general thoracic surgeon with the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, as the host, discusses recent highlights submitted to CTSNet, along with a look at a new esophagogastric anastomosis simulator in this month's JTCVS.