In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Samer Nashef, a consultant cardiac surgeon at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, about complications in cardiothoracic surgery.
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Critical Care
December 11, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Laurens Ceulemans, thoracic surgeon at the University Hospitals Leuven in Belgium, about lung volume reduction.
December 11, 2025
Fifty-seven US organizations representing the Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) signed a letter of support for Advanced Practice Nursing professionals in response to the US Department of Education’s recently proposed change that would exclude postbaccalaureate nursing programs from the official regulatory definition of a "professional degree program."
December 5, 2025
At the 2025 EACTS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Cristina Ruiz Segria spoke with Karin Hinterbuchner, a registered nurse at Tirol Kliniken GmbH in Austria, about EACTS fellowships.
December 4, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Christopher McGregor about the current state of cardiac and kidney xenotransplantation.
November 28, 2025
At the 2025 European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Cristina Ruiz Segria spoke with Dr. Edris A. F. Mahtab and Laurent Coopmans about optimizing operation planning.
November 25, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Evgenij Potapov about the guidelines on temporary mechanical circulatory support in adult cardiac surgery.
November 21, 2025
At the 2025 EACTS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Cristina Ruiz Segria spoke with Dr. Ivy Susanne Modrau and Marianne Saugbjerg about their presentation on taking a clinical question and turning it into research.
November 20, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Randas Batista, cardiac surgeon and founder of Vilela Batista Heart Foundation, about the surgical treatment of Eisenmenger syndrome.
November 20, 2025
This 10-year, single institution propensity-matched study investigated the outcomes of supervised resident-led emergency cardiac surgery compared to consultant-led procedures. Among 1,241 emergency cases, 364 matched pairs were analyzed, and overall outcomes were noted to be similar.