Shruti Jayakumar
In this interview, Shruti Jayakumar and Martin Elliott discuss his path to and experience in congenital heart surgery. Professor Elliott describes the importance of recognizing the patient, safety and outcomes, leadership and teamwork, and challenges...
Shruti Jayakumar interviews Martin Elliott about the changes in cardiac surgery that have been most interesting and impactful during the course of their respective careers.
...Shruti Jayakumar of St George’s University Hospital in London, UK, interviews Martin Elliott of the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London and John McKenna of Edinburgh, UK, about...
This video demonstrates a proximal anastomosis, attaching a graft vessel to the aorta in a coronary artery bypass graft procedure. The authors break the anastomosis into five steps: preparation, creating...
In the case shown in this video, a midline sternotomy was used, which is ideal for multiple procedures. However, a right thoracotomy can be done as a minimally invasive approach...
In this Giants of Cardiothoracic Surgery interview, Shruti Jayakumar of King’s College London School of Medicine in the UK speaks with Kumud Dhital of St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, Australia,...
At the end of a cardiac procedure, two or three chest tubes are placed in the mediastinal space to continuously monitor postoperative blood loss and to prevent undesirable blood collection,...
This video demonstrates a posterolateral thoracotomy. The authors detail the procedure in a step-by-step fashion, using diagrams and surgical video to illustrate key technical elements. This video also shows a...
In the acute postoperative period after cardiac surgery, pacing wires can be inserted into the atria or ventricles to form an external artificial cardiac conductive system controlled by an external...
In this interview, Shruti Jayakumar of King’s College London School of Medicine in the UK and Martin Elliott of the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, UK, discuss...
This video demonstrates the steps of an acute type A aortic dissection repair. The authors used a stented E-vita graft to replace the descending aorta and the arch. An aortic...
This video demonstrates a central cannulation in a step-by-step fashion, using diagrams and surgical video to illustrate key technical elements. Step 1 Aortic cannulation is always done prior to atrial...
This video demonstrates the closure of a median sternotomy using stainless steel wires in a step-by-step fashion. The authors include both diagrams and surgical video to illustrate key technical elements....













