CTSNet Podcasts

In this episode of CTSNet’s flagship podcast, editor in chief Joel Dunning runs through the latest, most popular content on ctsnet.org—the largest online community of CT surgeons and source of CT surgery information—and breaking cardiothoracic surgery news and research from around the world. Joel discusses the updated aortic aneurysm and dissection guidelines, a new device for intraoperative evaluation of aortic valve repair proce...

In this episode of CTSNet’s flagship podcast, editor in chief Joel Dunning runs through the latest, most popular content on ctsnet.org—the largest online community of CT surgeons and source of CT surgery information—and breaking cardiothoracic surgery news and research from around the world. Joel discusses donor-transmitted coronary artery disease in heart transplant recipients, multiple arterial grafting in diabetic populations, ...

In this episode of CTSNet’s flagship podcast, editor in chief Joel Dunning runs through the latest, most popular content on ctsnet.org—the largest online community of CT surgeons and source of CT surgery information—and breaking cardiothoracic surgery news and research from around the world. Joel discusses the first autoregulated total artificial heart implant in the United States, a study of on-table chest drain removals, and the...

In this episode of CTSNet’s flagship podcast, editor in chief Joel Dunning runs through the latest, most popular content on ctsnet.org—the largest online community of CT surgeons and source of CT surgery information—and breaking cardiothoracic surgery news and research from around the world. Joel discusses the first in-human transapical beating-heart septal myectomy, machine learning prediction of mortality following cardiac surge...

In this episode of CTSNet’s flagship podcast, editor in chief Joel Dunning runs through the latest, most popular content on ctsnet.org—the largest online community of CT surgeons and source of CT surgery information—and breaking cardiothoracic surgery news and research from around the world. Joel discusses the EACTS and STS review on conduits for CABG, a groundbreaking domino surgery in infants, and coronary plaque sampling to gai...

In this episode of CTSNet’s flagship podcast, editor in chief Joel Dunning runs through the latest, most popular content on ctsnet.org—the largest online community of CT surgeons and source of CT surgery information—and breaking cardiothoracic surgery news and research from around the world. Joel discusses the STS and AATS rebuttal to the 2023 Chronic Coronary Disease Guideline, the development of an adult congenital mortality ris...

In this episode of CTSNet’s flagship podcast, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning interviews cardiac surgeon and Chairman of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Guidelines Committee Faisal Bakaeen. The update to the guidelines on chronic coronary disease has been an important topic of discussion among surgeons since they were released, and Joel and Faisal discuss their implications. Joel also discusses the latest CTSNet content, including a...

In this episode of CTSNet’s flagship podcast, editor in chief Joel Dunning runs through the latest, most popular content on ctsnet.org—the largest online community of CT surgeons and source of CT surgery information—and breaking cardiothoracic surgery news and research from around the world. Joel discusses safe duration of hypothermic circulatory arrest, racial disparities in survival after lung transplant, and pulmonary dysfuncti...

In this epsiode, Joel discusses new dissolving cardiac monitors used to treat heart disease, an initiative in Côte d’Ivoire leading the way for CT surgery in Africa, and a simple technique for mitral valve repair using running sutures. He also talks about videos demonstrating the Nikaidoh operation, right gastroepiploic artery harvesting in CABG, and a VATS right pneumectomy. After discussing upcoming events in the CT surgery worl...

In this episode of CTSNet’s flagship podcast, editor in chief Joel Dunning runs through the latest, most popular content on ctsnet.org—the largest online community of CT surgeons and source of CT surgery information—and breaking cardiothoracic surgery news and research from around the world. Joel discusses lessons learned from the first successful pig heart transplant, transmitral septal myectomy and mitral valve surgery via right...

In this episode of CTSNet’s flagship podcast, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning interviews Nursing and Allied Health Senior Editor Jill Ley. Joel and Jill discussed her more than forty-year career as a nurse working alongside cardiac surgeons, working together as a multidisciplinary community, and her plans for her new role with CTSNet. Make sure to view Jill Ley’s Guest Editor Series, a curated collection of presentations on timely t...

In this episode of CTSNet’s flagship podcast, editor in chief Joel Dunning runs through CT surgery videos and breaking news all the way from Buckingham Palace! Joel discusses whether to repair or replace the aortic root in type A dissection, prolapse repair for aortic regurgitation in tricuspid aortic valves, and the first in cardiac catheterization procedures in a Ghanaian hospital. He also talks about TAPVC in a neonate, a rapi...

In this episode of CTSNet’s flagship podcast, editor in chief Joel Dunning runs through the latest, most popular content on ctsnet.org—the largest online community of CT surgeons and source of CT surgery information—and breaking cardiothoracic surgery news and research from around the world. Joel discusses minithoracotomy versus sternotomy for mitral valve repair, an AATS consensus on management of patients with early-stage non-sm...

In this episode of CTSNet’s flagship podcast, editor in chief Joel Dunning is joined by new senior editor of congenital content, Dr. Sameh Said. Together, they run through the latest, most popular content on ctsnet.org—the largest online community of CT surgeons and source of CT surgery information—and breaking cardiothoracic surgery news and research from around the world. After a short introduction, Joel and Sameh begin their di...

In CTSNet’s flagship podcast, editor in chief Joel Dunning runs through the latest, most popular content on ctsnet.org—the largest online community of CT surgeons and source of CT surgery information—and breaking cardiothoracic surgery news and research from around the world.

In this episode, Joel addresses new guidelines for mechanical circulatory support, a five-year follow-up after transcatheter repair of secondary mitral regurg...

The Beat with Joel Dunning Ep. 9

In this episode, Joel addresses the viability of redo TAVR, simluation-based training in thoracic surgery, and pectus excavatum in cardiac surgery patients.

He also talks VATS resection of a mediastinal cyst, a grand round discussion from Metronic, and a webinar on advances in valve tissue technology. After discussing upcoming events in the CT surgery world, Joel closes with a shoutout to Tristan Ya...

The Beat with Joel Dunning Ep. 8

In this episode, Joel addresses a machine learning model improving mortality risk prediction for cardiac surgery patients, the efficacy of thoracoscopic surgery for descending necrotizing mediastinitis, and a study examining diversity and compensation among cardiothoracic surgeons.

He also talks about a minimally invasive mitral valve repair, repair by translocation of anomalous origin of the left c...

CTSNet editor in chief Joel Dunning runs through the latest, most popular content on the website and breaking cardiothoracic surgery news and research from around the world. In Episode 7, Joel talks about an STS analysis on isolated tricuspid operations, a framework to developing pediatric and congenital heart disease services in low/middle-income countries, and usage of ChatGPT to process thoracic surgery data. He also reflects ...

Joel runs through some of his favorite presentations from last week’s AATS annual meeting. Then, he addresses a new hybrid device to treat patients with thoracoabdominal aortic disease, Zambia's first total aortic arch replacement, and albumin infusion and blood loss after cardiac surgery. He also talks about the winning video in the Resident Video Competition, a step-by-step single-ventricle palliative procedure from the late Jam...