A succinct comment with a wealth of up-to-date references vis-a-vis the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
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Cardiac
March 22, 2020
Shanda Blackmon, Brendon Stiles, Vinay Badhwar, and Robert Cerfolio discuss maximizing efficiency in a cardiothoracic surgery practice.
March 22, 2020
Joel Dunning, Aaron Morton, Jill Ley, Rick Bell, and John Whitlock discuss STS protocol for the management of cardiac arrest after cardiac surgery, an expert consensus statement that was published in January of 2017.
March 22, 2020
A panel of experts debates the threshold for aortic replacement in bicuspid aortic valve-related aortopathy.
March 20, 2020
Interesting input from a Stanford expert on the hottest topic on the planet at the moment.
March 18, 2020
Filmed March 18, 2020, Brian Mitzman moderates a discussion on the COVID-19 pandemic with an international group of physicians currently on the front lines.
March 18, 2020
The authors describe a thoughtful process for resource utilization in the setting of competing needs that optimizes survival for a popultion. Examples of existing guidelines are provided.
March 18, 2020
This important paper is the modeling that the UK has based its advice on.
March 17, 2020
The authors present a minimally invasive approach to surgical pulmonary embolectomy through a left anterior minithoracotomy using peripheral cardiopulmonary bypass that they have found to be safe and reproducible for surgeons around the world.
March 13, 2020
Suture techniques were compared for prosthesis-patient mismatch among groups who underwent aortic valve replacement and had a small annulus. Nonpledget mattress sutures performed better than pledget mattress sutures and figure-of-8 nonpledget sutures.