CTSNet Podcasts

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Ari Wes, Partner at Peninsula Plastic Surgery and CEO and Cofounder of Orchid Surgical, about clinical surgery video production.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:46 Interview Preview

02:16 No Chest-Open Heart Transplant

05:07 NSCLC Time to Surgery

07:55 Impact of Preop Invasive Nodal Staging

11:04 Air Space Spread Impacts Adenocarcinoma

14:26 Intrapericard Pneum w Br...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. David Kalfa, the incoming Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Co-Director of the Heart Institute at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami, about allogeneic mitral valve transplants.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:46 Interview Preview

02:54 MV Surgery After Failed Intervention

07:46 Tears Predict Outcomes After Hemi-Arch

10:32 Pain Catastrophizing Scale

14:27 ARR...

In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Faisal Bakaeen, Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Director of the Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Center at the Cleveland Clinic, about radial artery harvesting.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction

01:45 Dr. Bakaeen Background

05:26 Historical Timeline

06:40 Radial Artery Advantages

08:58 Anatomy

14:31 Patient Preparation &...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with CTSNet Board Member Dr. Keith Naunheim, Vallee L. and Melba Willman Professor and Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, about artificial intelligence (AI) in cardiothoracic (CT) surgery.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:31 Guest Preview, Dr. Naunheim

02:34 Clinic Notes via AI

04:41 Congenital Challenging Anatomy

06:47 Exposing Intr...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with CTSNet JANS Editor Dr. Mateo Marin-Cuartas, a cardiac surgeon in the University Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Leipzig Heart Center, Germany, about surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) vs transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).

Chapters

00:00 Intro

00:57 Dr. Marin-Cuartas Feature

02:28 SHURUI Robot Feasability

05:09 Touching as Diagnostic Test

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This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning recaps the 33rd European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) annual meeting in Budapest.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:30 ESTS 2025 Conference

09:11 SHURUI Robot Study

10:04 Willard A. Fry

12:44 Transplant Recipient Pregnancy Outcomes

15:25 Low-Flow, Low-Gradient Aortic Stenosis

17:12 Warm Ischemic Intervals Effect

19:16 Extracorp Circulation vs Conventional

23:23 Femoral Cannula...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with cofounders Courtney Maxey-Jones and Connor Wasilnak about their charity, Global Outreach for Medical Equity and Development (GOMED), which exists to deliver essential medical supplies to underresourced regions.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:33 Surgical Instrument Donations

02:43 Adverse Outcomes in Surgery

10:05 Lymph Node NSCLC Study

12:45 Pleural Invasion by AI Anal...

In this special one-year anniversary episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Michael Mack, medical director of cardiothoracic surgery at Baylor Scott and White Health System and chairman of the Baylor Plano Research Center in Texas, about the future of valve surgery.

Chapters

00:00 Introductions

01:18 Dr. Mack Background

03:41 Becoming a CT Surgeon

07:53 Path to Academic Surgery

10:19 Unconventional Thinki...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Nina Fuller-Shavel, co-chair of the British Society for Integrative Oncology (BSIO) from 2021 to 2023 and current co-chair of the BSIO Clinical Practice and Education Committee, about integrative oncology.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:29 Integrative Medicine

09:13 Bar Dislocation, Pectus

10:53 Effective Circulating Volume Fraction

13:14 Repair vs Replacement, Edg...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Dibin Mohammed, a consultant at Government Medical College, Kozhikode, Kerala, India, about his WhatsApp group, Young CVTS Surgeons Kerala.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:22 CTSNet Updates

03:44 Dr. Mohammed Guest

05:20 Allogeneic Mitral Valve Transplant

08:45 Multiple vs Single Arterial Grafting

11:50 AI & Machine Learning in CT Surgery

17:57 3-Port vs 4-Port ...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning celebrates two years of the podcast and speaks with Dr. Joseph F. Sabik III, president of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) and chair of the Department of Surgery at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, about the future of cardiothoracic surgery.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:16 Dr. Sabik Guest

04:13 AATS 2025

20:26 Extended Sleeve Lobectomy Study

23:55 SQUAT Trial...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Cristiano Spadaccio, an attending cardiac surgeon and associate professor of surgery at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Ohio, USA, about totally tissue-engineered valves for tricuspid replacement.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:48 Tissue-Engineered Valves

05:48 Compensatory Sweating After BETS

10:05 5Y Outcomes TAVR vs SAVR

13:34 ChatGPT CT Surger...

In this month’s episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Jose Fernandes from the Department of Clinical Perfusion at Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK, about extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).

Chapters

00:00 Introduction

01:47 History

04:46 Basics

09:58 Circuit

14:09 Cannulation

22:44 Indications for Use

28:14 VV ECMO

32:18 VA ECMO

36:44 Monitoring

42:31 Complications

47:03 ECMO CPR

49:17 Trai...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Mario Castillo-Sang, the Surgical Director of Mitral Valve and Heart Failure Therapies at St. Elizabeth Healthcare, Edgewood, Kentucky, USA, about totally endoscopic cardiac surgery.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:17 Minimal Access Bedside Cardiac

04:37 Lung Cancer, Histological Subtype

09:29 TAVR vs SAVR, AS & CAD

12:22 Biopros TVR Outcomes

15:48 Mitral Annula...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning examines the first-ever transcontinental uniportal thoracic surgery.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:26 100th Episode, Future

03:01 Transcontinental Uniportal Robotics

09:52 Infective Endo in Octogenerians

12:39 Kidney Replacement Therapy, Cardiac Outcomes

15:50 Stenotic Lesions Simulation

18:59 One-Lung Ventilation, Difficult Airway

21:06 Simplified Approach to Bentall Procedure

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This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Professor Robert Sneyd, Vice Chair of Aortic Dissection Awareness UK & Ireland, about the charity’s dedication to promoting awareness of aortic dissection.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

03:52 RLAAO Isolated MR Study

09:07 Early Outcomes Reop Aortic Root

11:39 Fallot and Its Variants

16:55 Low-Dose Warfarin, Mech AV

22:02 AVR w LIMA-LAD & AAR

23:40 Pulm Thromboend...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Salim Aziz, thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon and clinical professor at George Washington University, about computed tomography (CT) scan-negative type A dissection.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

00:57 Dr. Aziz Preview

02:01 Bringing International Colleagues to Centers

07:01 Ambulation Protocol ECMO

09:12 COPD Severity, Aortic Aneurysm

11:37 Robotic Mitral Repair L...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning recaps two presentations delivered at the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting 2025.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

02:57 "Teamship," Sir Woodward

09:23 Virtual Surgery Training, Dr. Ahmed

12:55 Upcoming Lung Surgery Trials

14:48 Needle Aspiration & Forceps Biopsy

17:26 Approaches to Clinical Trial Designs

22:10 Noninvasive Ventilation Ca...

In this month’s episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Thomas D'Amico about VATS lobectomy.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction

01:47 Background

04:11 Indications

04:51 Preoperative Assessment

07:12 Setup

08:21 Patient Positioning

11:26 Basics

13:36 D'Amico's Port Placement

16:46 Uniportal

22:03 Steps

22:44 Anterior-Posterior Order

25:45 Anatomy

26:45 Instruments

30:54 Pleural Dissection

31:33 Inferior Pulmonary ...