CTSNet Podcasts

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Nasser Altorki, thoracic surgeon at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, and thoracic surgeon and CTSNet Senior Editor Leanne Ashrafian about the 10-year results from the JCOG0802 trial.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

02:56 JANS 1, Re-Repair vs Replacement

05:07 JANS 2, Mini Mitral Multicentre RCT

07:01 JANS 3, PERSEVERE Study

08:54 JANS 4, Parietal Pleurectomy vs Pleu...

In this episode of The Cardiac Recovery Room, moderator Vicki Morton, Director of Clinical and Quality Outcomes at Providence Anesthesiology Associates in North Carolina, USA, spoke with Alexander Gregory, a cardiovascular anesthesiologist and assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, and the Libin Cardiovascular Institute at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Cana...

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.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

00:34 Dr. Nashef Background

04:06 Results Monitoring

08:55 Common Complications

14:40 Mentality

19:18 Identifying Room for Improvement

21:25 Pattern of Response

22:47 Long-Term Complications

26:08 Mortality/Morbidit...

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.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

02:41 Right to Repair, Robotics Re-Use

04:53 REPEAT Trial

06:30 JANS 1, PCI After CABG Randomized Trial

08:01 JANS 2, No-Touch vs Conventional Saph Veins

11:04 JANS 3, Sir Terence English & Keyvyn Mohagissi

12:09 CTSNet Recr...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Christopher McGregor, professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, about the current state of cardiac and kidney xenotransplantation.

Chapters

00:00 Intro 

03:10 Sir Terence English 

08:00 JANS 1, Cardiac Xenotransplantation 

09:13 JANS 2, Coffee Consumption on AF 

11:06 JANS 3, Environmental Factors Acute AD 

12:49 JANS ...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Evgenij Potapov, a consultant senior surgeon and co-chairman of the mechanical circulatory support program in the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the German Heart Center in Berlin, about the guidelines on temporary mechanical circulatory support (tCMS) in adult cardiac surgery.

Chapters

00:00 Intro 01:56 Segmentectomy vs Lobectomy News 18...

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.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

02:51 JANS 1, DAMSUN-HF Study

05:41 JANS 2, TAVR vs SAVR Guidelines

07:45 JANS 3, Myocardial Infarction After CABG

10:31 JANS 4, VAD Bridge-to-Transplant

12:27 New Recruitment Guide

13:54 Video 1, Anomalous...

In this inaugural episode of CTSNet’s new podcast, The Cardiac Recovery Room, moderator Dr. Daniel Engelman, Medical Director of the Cardiac Surgical Critical Care & Inpatient Services at Baystate Health, Professor of Surgery at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School—Baystate, and President of the ERAS Cardiac Society, spoke with Drs. Rakesh Arora, Director of Perioperative and Cardiac Critical Care and Research Di...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Zara Shirazi, a congenital cardiac surgery post-fellow at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, about advancing pediatric cardiac surgery in Pakistan using what she learned from her fellowship in Austria.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

02:28 Vince TAVR Roundtables

03:05 Foreign Body, Case of the Month

03:49 JANS 1, Temporary MCS Guidelines

13:50 JANS 2, Parent...

In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Marc Moon, Chief of Adult Cardiac Surgery at Texas Heart Institute, Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, and Chief of Adult Cardiac Surgery section at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, about aortic dissection.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

00:33 About Dr. Moon

02:51 Overview

03:33 History

05:27 Pathophysiology & Clinical Prese...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Liam Burns, CEO of Qaelon Medical, about turning ideas into companies.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

02:26 JANS 1, Ross Procedure Consensus Statement

13:59 JANS 2, Novel Anastomotic Device

16:03 JANS 3, Tracheobronchoplasty Disorders Analysis

18:32 JANS 4, Revasc Strategies Non-Acute Myocardial

20:22 JANS 5, EACTS Core Curriculum for Cardiac Surgeon

21:51 Video 1, Giant R...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning explores the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in writing medical articles.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:56 Using AI in Medical Writing

09:07 JANS 1, AI-Writing Article

14:53 JANS 2, Kidney vs Lung Transplant Outcomes

17:04 JANS 3, Harvesting Tech on ITAG

18:56 JANS 4, Phase 2 NeoCOAST-2 Trial

23:01 Career Center

23:41 Video 1, TAVR Explant After CABG w MVR

25:28 Video...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Fraser Sutherland, a consultant cardiac surgeon at Ross Hall Hospital and the Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Scotland, about the world’s first transcervical robotic aortic valve replacement (AVR) procedures.

Chapters

00:00 Intro 

02:30 JANS 1, CABG After 60 Years 

13:53 JANS 2, Endovascular Arch Repair 

16:45 JANS 3, Impact of Age on ARR 

18:47 JANS 4, An...

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.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:45 EACTS 2025

07:19 JANS 1, HVD Management Guidelines

16:26 JANS 2, Low-Risk AVR Evidence

19:21 JANS 3, Warden Procedure Selection

20:36 JANS 4, Primary Repair of CAT

21:48 JANS 5, NEWTON-CABG Car...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning shares insights from his recent trip to Ghana.

Chapters

00:00 Intro 

02:18 Ghana Mission Trip 

04:35 Failures of a Heart Surgeon  

09:27 JANS 1, Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity  

12:57 JANS 2, Utility of GERAADA Score  

14:41 JANS 3, Aortic Valve Neocuspidization  

17:33 JANS 4, Procedural Planning in Thoracoscopic Segmentectomy 

19:09 JANS 5, The Outlet Orifice Di...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Anders Jeppsson, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden, about his paper on “Ticagrelor and Aspirin or Aspirin Alone After Coronary Surgery for Acute Coronary Syndrome,” published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Chapters

00:00 Intro 

01:54 Ghana Mission Trip 

06:23 JANS 1, Pig-to-Human Transplant 

08:08 JANS...

In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. John Puskas, professor of surgery at Emory University, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Emory University Hospital Midtown, and Wilton Looney Director at the Emory Carlyle Fraser Heart Center in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, about proximal coronary anastomosis.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

00:44 About Dr. Puskas

03:35 Background & History

06:56 10 Commandments for PA

1...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Drs. Daniel Brockman, Professor of Small Animal Surgery at The Royal Veterinary College, London, England, and Matteo Rossanese, Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery at The Royal Veterinary College, about performing cardiothoracic surgery in animals.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:44 Innovation Competition Results

07:18 JANS 1, Modified Bio-Bentall

08:45 JANS 2, Exte...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Alexis Shafii, professor of surgery and surgical director of heart transplantation at The Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine, about the first in-human BiVACOR total artificial heart implantation.

Chapters

00:00 Intro 01:54 JANS 1, Validation of SYNTAX 04:58 JANS 2, Long-Distance ECMO Bridge 09:05 JANS 3, Segmentectomies Made Easy 10:49 JANS 4, M...