Congenital & Pediatric
In this episode of the CTSNet podcast, The Lifeline, host and nurse educator Jill Ley, Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco School of Nursing, Founder of the Essentials of Cardiac Surgical Resuscitation,...
Diaphragmatic paralysis following congenital cardiac surgery is an important cause of postoperative respiratory morbidity in neonates and infants. Prompt recognition and appropriate management are essential to reduce ventilator dependence and...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with James Cox, Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, USA,...
An 8-year-old male (24 kg) presented with intermittent fever for 45 days. Echocardiography demonstrated infective endocarditis of a bicuspid aortic valve with multiple vegetations (largest 8 × 6 mm), severe...
This video demonstrates the modified trapdoor technique for direct reimplantation of an anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery. Case Presentation Following cardiopulmonary resuscitation, a three-month-old, 4.7 kg infant,...
Objective Whether the moderator band should always be preserved or cut during the relief of the pulmonary subvalvar obstruction in the repair of tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is a controversial...
This is a case presentation of a 9-day-old female infant born at 38 weeks with a postnatal diagnosis of interrupted aortic arch type B, two large posterior malaligned ventricular septal...
The strategies and approaches to cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) access have evolved as surgeons gain experience in minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS) procedures. Femoral artery cannulation is convenient but carries risks...
This video submission is from the 2025 CTSNet Instructional Video Competition. Watch all entries from the competition, including the winning videos. This video illustrates the approach for closing an atrial...
This video submission is from the 2025 CTSNet Instructional Video Competition. Watch all entries from the competition, including the winning videos. This video shows the authors’ technique for atrial septal...
A 44-year-old male with a complex cardiac history presented to the hospital with persistent abdominal contractions that interfered with both breathing and speech. His cardiac history dated back to the...
This video submission is from the 2025 CTSNet Instructional Video Competition. Watch all entries from the competition, including the winning videos. The anomalous origin of the right coronary artery (RCA)...
The video details a surgical technique for permanent pacemaker implantation in a pediatric patient diagnosed with congenital complete heart block (CCHB) of maternal lupus origin. A left posterolateral thoracotomy with...











