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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March 7, 2025
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 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.
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.
February 28, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Mujtaba Mubashir, CTSNet JANS editor and surgical resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, about being a JANS editor.
February 27, 2025
In this official statement, the European Society of Cardiology advocates for the evolution of the Medical Device Regulation (MDR) system to facilitate priority access for innovative devices addressing unmet needs and orphan cardiovascular medical devices in the European Union.
February 27, 2025
Heart transplants from donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors are well-established for adults in the United Kingdom, but extending this practice to pediatric heart transplants has been slow and difficult despite a severe donor shortage. Barriers include ethical concerns, technology gaps, and logistical challenges.
February 20, 2025
In this episode of The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Husam Balkhy, Professor of Surgery and the Director of Robotic and Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery at University of Chicago Medicine and President of ISMICS, about robotic totally endoscopic cardiac surgery procedures.
February 19, 2025
At the 2025 STS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Mara Antonoff spoke with Dr. J. W. Awori Hayanga about the importance of evidence-based surgery.
February 13, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Tom D’Amico, professor and vice chairman of surgery and chief medical officer of the Duke Cancer Institute, about oligometastatic disease.