A most comprehensive practice guideline, relevant not only to surgeons involved in VA ECMO, but also all cardiac and thoracic colleagues and perioperative clinicians.
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Vascular
April 16, 2021
April 12, 2021
In this video, we show in a step-by-step fashion how we could perform what is, to the best of our knowledge, the first total arch replacement with Frozen Elephant Trunk (FET) without circulatory arrest (CA) in a patient with type A acute dissection.
April 5, 2021
The authors present a modified sleeve operation. Since 2006, they have performed 180 procedure valve sparing procedures in this way.
February 26, 2021
This article describes midterm results of the Dissected Aorta Repair Through Stent Implantation trial.
February 26, 2021
This study looks at the relationship between failure to rescue and patient frailty after cardiovascular surgery.
January 27, 2021
In this CTSNet To Go podcast episode, Guest Editor Konstadinos A. Plestis and his panelists discuss the clinical videos of his recent Guest Editor Series: Surgical Management of Acute Aortic Dissections.
January 16, 2021
A recent European consensus paper. Relatively easily read, and favouring meta-analyses over randomised trials. The bulk of the manuscript is of interest to all healthcare providers. The chapters 2.8.1 and 3.1.2 are of additional relevance to the ctsnet readership, as they summarise guidance on interventions.
January 16, 2021
Advances in neuromonitoring and related screening by imaging constitute an expanding field of cardiovascular perioperative care, attracting the readership of interventional and conventional surgical providers.
January 10, 2021
An interesting retrospective study on the efficacy of the the US screening program for aortic aneurysmal disease in the abdomen. The discussion on the detective importance of clinical examination being complementary to sonography is pertinent.
December 20, 2020
A scholarly metanalytic review on training by surgical simulators. The authors submit that low-fidelity is acceptable, balancing affordable basic inanimate models against the higher cost (and ethics) of zootomy and cadaceric dissection.