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.
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Guidelines
November 25, 2025
November 19, 2025
This video demonstrates the en bloc heart and lung donation after circulatory death rapid recovery protocol combined with abdominal normothermic regional perfusion, proving safe and feasible.
November 6, 2025
The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), and The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) recently released joint consensus guidelines on use of temporary mechanical circulatory support (tMCS). This field has evolved significantly during the past decade.
October 31, 2025
At the 2025 EACTS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes spoke with Professor Michael A. Borger and Dr. Mateo Marin-Cuartas about the 2025 ESC/EACTS guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease.
October 30, 2025
The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) has developed a unified Core Curriculum for cardiac surgical training to address variations in training standards across Europe.
October 16, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Marc Pelletier, division chief of cardiac surgery for the Department of Surgery at Yale School of Medicine, about patient blood management.
October 16, 2025
In this article, the author reflects on 60 years of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), outlining its origins, the role of early surgical-cardiology collaboration, and its place alongside advances in medical therapy. Despite improvements in guideline-directed treatment, patients with extensive coronary disease still rely on CABG.
October 9, 2025
The 2025 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease (VHD) are an update to the 2021 version of this document.
September 29, 2025
On September 25, 2025, a group of esteemed cardiac surgeons gathered for a live webinar titled “Data-Driven Valve Selection for Younger AVR Patients,” presented by Artivion in collaboration with CTSNet.
September 25, 2025
This article argues that emergency resternotomy should be routinely practiced in all cardiac surgery centers, as it is a critical procedure for managing cardiac arrest such as tamponade or refractory bleeding.