Discussions about the most relevant topics in cardiothoracic surgery from CTSNet, the Cardiothoracic Surgery Network.
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Jay Pal, Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Washington, about AI-assisted screening for rheumatic heart disease.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:17 JANS 1, Cardiac
05:15 JANS 2, Thoracic
07:01 JANS 3, Thoracic
09:41 JANS 4, Cardiac
12:14 JANS 5, Thoracic
13:37 Subvalvular Ring Excision, AVR
15:30 SCORE Technique, Rheu M Stenosis
18:43 VATS Intraperi L Pne...
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
2...
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 ...
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