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Join Grand Rounds with Dr. Pedro del Nido tomorrow Wednesday 15th November 7am PT/ 10am ET 👇 DM me for link

🫁How safe is discharging patients without chest tubes <18h after lung resection? annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-… 👉The authors describe experience with 200 lobectomies and 230 segmentectomies 162 patients (37%) went home <18h post-op: with no difference in readmissions and no deaths

🚸Are we training congenital cardiac surgeons well? 86% of program directors and 41% of recent graduates responded to a national survey covering training experience, mentorship, case volume and job satisfaction.

Rereading this superb review - so many pearls

Woohoo! FINALLY!!! Hopefully this makes life easier for authors! THANK YOU to the other editors and managers of Annals, JTCVS and EJCTS!!!!

Talking Ross on a 3-Ross week with a master congenital surgeon - 10am ET 7am PT today! DM for link

Top reads 🫀 HCM surgery review -Schaff 🫀992 Crawford I repairs -Coselli 🫀750 Redo mitrals -Glower 🫁Home discharge 18h >lobectomy -Kim 🚸Congenital work survey 👉STS Presidential address

⚔️Why we need RCTs 📈EHJ analysis of mitral TEER vs surgery in administrative data shows better 1 yr outcomes with TEER (but doesn’t separate out functional from degenerative, or repair from replacement) 📉👇JTCVS analysis of US Medicare data shows better 1y and 3y survival with

March’s issue now online 👇 annalsthoracicsurgery.org/current

Severe, symptomatic TR from a flail anterior leaflet caused by chordal rupture (no risk factors) - repaired by reattaching chordae to RV, ring annuloplasty and anteroseptal commmisural suture. With permission.

Wednesday September 18th 10am ET/7am PT - DM me for link

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8am PT, 11am ET Today, Tuesday 22nd October DM for link

Final call for your ideas and session proposals for AHA Scientific Sessions 2025 November 7-11 New Orleans!👇 professional.heart.org/en/meetings/sc…

Thank you to all first responders, especially the fire crews. Didn’t expect this while rounding last night. Thank you to all the amazing team of people that came into work again today to look after patients, even though many are without power, drinking water or homes

Robotic lung transplant - link to resident video on CTSnet showing Cedars-Sinai robotic mini-thoracotony technique (illustration below from the Barcelona group describing their robotic subxiphoid approach Ascanio F et al EJCTS 2025; doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/…

Our program matched great - we’re excited! But today hits different for some. Every main character has a plot twist . Mine still haunts me. DM if it helps - no promises, just advice and shared existential dread #MatchDay2025