Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club | Lifetime Achievement Award

The Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club is dedicated to raising global awareness of the benefits of endoscopic cardiac surgery among patients, surgeons, and industry partners. Stay tuned for more ECSC videos in the coming weeks.      

At the Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club Meeting 2024, Dr. Ludwig Mueller, a consultant cardiac surgeon at the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria, delivered his acceptance speech for the Lifetime Achievement Award.  

In his presentation, he emphasized the importance of teaching and outlined the foundations of his teaching program. He highlighted the essence of teaching surgery, which encompasses sharing theoretical knowledge, demonstrating techniques, proctoring, and transferring experiential insights. Dr. Mueller also addressed the development of less invasive valve surgery and the imitations associated with learning minimally invasive valve surgery (MIMVS). He discussed the challenges in implementing MIMVS, mirror neurons, and the positive impacts of 3D video-endoscopic cameras.  

The Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club promotes global awareness of the advantages of endoscopic cardiac surgery among patients, surgeons, and industry partners. A primary goal is to increase the safe and widespread adoption of endoscopic techniques in cardiac surgery, ultimately driving improvements in both short- and long-term outcomes for cardiac patients.      

The Club vision is to establish cardiac surgery as a specialty in which endoscopic methods are utilized more widely, improving surgical performance and patient outcomes. The Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club operates as a not-for-profit organization.      

The annual meeting is a highly technical event featuring live cases and live in a box presentations of both endoscopic and robotic cardiac operations. The meeting is filled with discussions and participation of younger surgeons, who present their endoscopic work from around the world in the Endoscopic Video Competition.      

This year, for the first time, the meeting will take place in the United States from September 4-6, 2025, in Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky.      

All are invited to attend the meeting and learn more about the Club.  

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