Simple things surg regs should practice #1. One-handed suturing. This has come in super handy for me in tricky situations when one hand is either retracting something, plugging a hole in a blood vx or just holding the thread. 1/5

My boy!! ⁦abodz⁩ I’m tearing up a little here, pal (and the camera didn’t add 25lbs at all!). Surgeon sprints through marathon to deliver lifesaving organ donation - Good Morning America goodmorningamerica.com/gma3/video/sur…

With patient permission. Yes, that beautiful lung is going in that 2” incision. The team is doing 2 bilateral 🫁, 2🫀transplants and a type A tonight…thank you 🙏 thank you to the donors, their families, this awesome team and all the other folk working miracles overnight.

THE PATIENT WHO DEVISED HIS OWN SURGERY! The patient Dr. Michael DeBakey (seated), himself benefited from heart surgery he had devised. In 2005, DeBakey suffered from aortic dissection. Years prior, he had pioneered surgical treatment to treat this condition.

TSRA, TSMA, and JTCVS (AATS ED) have created a 7-part primer series to introduce cardiothoracic surgery to students. We hope that surgeons and residents will share these articles with rotating students and those interested in cardiothoracic surgery.