At the 2025 STS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Emily Farkas spoke with Dr. Dominique Vervoort about global cardiac surgery workforce planning.
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Cardiac
March 7, 2025
March 7, 2025
Dr. Christopher Lau delivered a presentation on “How to Do a Quick, Safe Posterior Pericardiotomy in Every Case,” examining the factors to consider when performing a pericardiotomy.
March 6, 2025
In this episode of The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning examines surgical staplers. He explores the history of surgical staplers, the evolution of surgical staplers, and discusses the company that created the first automated minimally invasive surgical stapler—United States Surgical Corporation (USSC).
March 6, 2025
This study investigated the impact of nighttime intensive staffing and failure to rescue (FTR) after cardiac surgery. This study compared two eras that were characterized by the presence and absence of nighttime intensivists staffing.
March 6, 2025
This study compared teenaged and adult patients with Down syndrome (DS) who underwent cardiac surgery with those without DS. Patients with DS had longer hospital stays, more mechanical ventilation, higher rates of postoperative complications, and greater need for respiratory support, but no increased mortality.
March 6, 2025
The debate continues over long-term outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) vs. coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) and multivessel disease.
March 5, 2025
At the 2024 EACTS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes spoke with Dr. Diyar Saeed about the guidelines for mechanical circulatory support and ventricular assist devices (VADs).
March 4, 2025
Off-pump aortic arch debranching via upper ministernotomy, combined with endovascular procedures, offers a minimally invasive alternative to full sternotomy and cardiopulmonary bypass for treating aortic arch aneurysms, as demonstrated in a 72-year-old patient who underwent successful same-day interventions and experienced an uneventful recovery.
March 3, 2025
Direct ascending aorta true lumen cannulation, demonstrated in this video, is a fast, safe, and reproducible technique that provides adequate central antegrade flow through the true aortic lumen within two minutes of circulatory arrest.
February 28, 2025
At the 2025 STS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Emily Farkas spoke with Dr. Marcelo Cardarelli about the costs of cardiac surgery around the world.