Perioperative & Critical Care
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,...
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...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Traves Crabtree, Professor and Chair of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Medical Director of the Surgical Skills Laboratory...
In this episode of The Cardiac Recovery Room, moderator Subhasis Chatterjee, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas, USA, spoke with J. W. Awori Hayanga, Professor of...
This study evaluated the Autonomous Blood Drawing Optimization and Performance Testing (ADOPT) trial, which assessed the performance, safety, and patient experience of an autonomous robotic phlebotomy device (ARPD) utilizing multimodal...
This ex vivo study examined human internal thoracic artery (ITA) rings from 94 coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) patients to assess whether perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT), preserved in pedicled but...
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Expert Consensus Document (2026) on Addressing Definition and Practices of Sublobar Resection in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) provides evidence-based recommendations to guide the...
This multisociety European Society of Cardiology (ESC)/European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) consensus statement addresses three mechanical complications of acute myocardial infarction: ventricular free-wall rupture, pseudoaneurysm, and papillary muscle rupture....
This interview highlights safer sternotomies and reducing wound complications. At the 2026 American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Annual Meeting, thoracic surgeon and CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr....
This multicenter registry assessed long-term outcomes of thoracoscopic atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation using a bipolar irrigated radiofrequency clamp across 13 years. Among 678 patients (predominantly longstanding persistent AF), freedom from...
This 20-year single-center study examined the impact of socioeconomic deprivation on outcomes after major aortic surgery in 2,010 patients within the UK’s publicly funded healthcare system. Among those undergoing emergency...
This systematic review of 80 studies (7,517 patients; 10,375 imaging examinations) examined how success is assessed after surgical left atrial appendage closure. Transesophageal echocardiography dominated intraoperative assessment (83 percent), while...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Chris Malaisrie, a Professor of Surgery in the Division of Cardiac Surgery at Northwestern University and an Attending...

