This article outlines best practice for achieving safe on-table extubation following cardiac surgery. It focuses on optimizing patient fitness postoperatively and emphasizes the importance of multidisciplinary coordination.
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August 7, 2025
August 7, 2025
This study examines the impact of the 2018 United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) heart transplant allocation criteria change on posttransplant stroke rates.
August 7, 2025
Frozen elephant trunk (FET) is an established surgical option for the single-stage treatment of acute type A aortic dissection. The authors studied 222 patients who underwent FET and compared outcomes and reintervention rates.
August 6, 2025
This video demonstrates a successful valve-sparing aortic root replacement (the David procedure) combined with two-vessel coronary artery bypass grafting. It highlights the importance of preserving the native aortic valve to avoid prosthesis-related complications and ensure long-term durability.
August 5, 2025
This video demonstrates a stepwise surgical approach for inverted Y annular enlargement (the Bo Yang technique) in the bicuspid aortic valve.
August 4, 2025
In this video, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Anthony Zaki, a cardiac surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic, about his winning video, “Direct Aortic Impella 5.5 in Post-Cardiotomy Shock.”
August 4, 2025
This video describes a bedside cannulation technique in an awake patient on veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
August 1, 2025
In this fascinating interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Joseph Zacharias, a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at the Lancashire Cardiac Center in Blackpool, England, discussing lifetime management of heart valve disease.
August 1, 2025
At the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2025, Dr. Jacques Marescaux delivered a presentation titled “How AI Will Revolutionize Minimally Invasive Surgery.”
August 1, 2025
In this video, Drs. Svetozar Putnik and Milos Matkovic describe their experiences developing an endoscopic cardiac surgery program in Serbia.