When compared to population-based models, a machine learning-based model improved prediction of mortality risk for cardiac surgery patients. The team used electronic health record data and machine learning methods to demonstrate how institutions can build their own mortality prediction models.
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Cardiac
May 19, 2023
May 16, 2023
This video demonstrates the use of the NeoChord DS1000 system, which is an innovative device that implants multiple sets of Gortex neochords onto the prolapsing segment of the posterior mitral valve leaflet through a minimally invasive approach without cardiopulmonary bypass.
May 15, 2023
Prof. Otsyula is a highly accomplished surgeon and academic leader in Kenya. In this interview, he tells the story of how he became a cardiac surgeon, runs through a few of his many accomplishments, and some of the challenges he has faced in his career.
May 11, 2023
Between 2011 and 2020, 14,704 isolated tricuspid operations were reported in The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database, and 6,507 cases were identified after excluding emergencies, endocarditis, stenosis, and prior heart transplants.
May 8, 2023
This article presents a tier-based framework with proposed benchmarks for the development of quality pediatric and congenital heart disease care in resource-limited settings. This was achieved by identifying the most common barriers to care and using a literature review method to determine the most effective solutions.
May 4, 2023
A team of surgeons at National Heart Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia collaborated with a team from the University of Michigan to complete the first total aortic arch replacement in the country. Despite the patient’s 8 cm aortic dissection, the procedure was uneventful with no complications.
May 4, 2023
This is episode 5 of The Beat podcast with Joel Dunning.
May 4, 2023
A forty-six-year-old male with a history of bicuspid aortic valve and failed previous transcatheter aortic valve replacement for symptomatic aortic stenosis underwent surgical explantation of the failed transcatheter aortic valve followed by the Ross procedure using a pulmonary autograft-in-conduit technique with a 30 mm Gelweave graft and reconstruction with a 29 mm pulmonary homograft.
May 2, 2023
An interview with the winner of the 2022 Resident Video Competition.