Contrary to popular belief the demise of mechanical valve usage is greatly exaggerated!!

With great sadness we announced today BHVS Spring Meeting that Prof John Chambers, BHVS Founder has passed away. We celebrate his enormous contribution to the field by delivering the Core Knowledge Day today which he set up to improve care for patients with #HVD.

BHVS Spring Meeting - excellent talk including echo assessment to plan mitral valve repair and check result with Max Baghai, minimal invasive mitral surgeon. ⁦BHVS⁩ ⁦BISMICS⁩

A further graphic that makes the powerful point that we have to think differently about "failure" if we want to build psychological safety for high performance in our teams & organisations. It's inspired by Amy Edmondson. The ideas are further developed in her latest book "Right

Finally it’s live!! We are looking for a “few good men and women”!! Associate Application | Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club ecsclub.org/associate-appl…

Excited to welcome 12 doctors, nurses and AHP from the cardiac surgery team University of Ghana Medical Centre LTD (UGMC) to South Tees Hospitals. We are working and learning together to build a second cardiac surgery unit in Ghana 🇬🇭 CardioStart SCTS UK and make our November mission a success

One year since publication. Has this changed practice where you are? Minithoracotomy vs Conventional Sternotomy for Mitral Valve Repair: A Randomized Clinical Trial | Valvular Heart Disease | JAMA | JAMA Network jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Thank you for asking me this question I generally refrain from comparing medical scandals because they are all tragedies in their own way. The Bristol heart scandal arose because the unit had demonstrably worse results for paediatric cardiac surgery than other units, but was

linkedin.com/posts/tommaso-…

How about “pathology specific” tariffs rather than “device specific” ones. So one tariff for aortic stenosis or mitral regurgitation treatment, rather than differential reimbursement for surgical procedures vs TAVI or Mitraclip!! If the device is good so should the costs 🤔

It's official, the annual BISMICS meeting is open for registration! 📆2-3 December 2024 📍The Midland Hotel Manchester 🛤️Return of the SCP parallel session 📝Now accepting clinical abstract and case submissions 👉Learn more: bit.ly/467kKwj

ICYMI: Registration for the annual BISMICS meeting is now open! 📆2-3 December 2024 📍The Midland Hotel Manchester 🛤️Return of the SCP parallel session 📝Now accepting clinical abstract and case submissions 👉Learn more: millbrook-events.co.uk/BISMICS2024

Mr Toufan bahrami, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon and BISMICS President, is confirmed as a panelist for Tricuspid Intervention UK on Friday 20 Sept at the Royal College of Physicians, London Join #Tricuspid2024 to hear his insights: bit.ly/4c96K7O Royal Brompton and Harefield thomas modine

Good to hear the story of how the “Periareolar approach” to heart valve surgery was envisioned by Dr Poffo in Brazil.

Good to hear ⁦Torsten Doenst⁩ explain that the “WHY” is the first challenge to overcome in moving away from sternotomy!!

Check out our sexual misconduct paper written for SCTS just this year - you are right Andrew Goodwin it is not acceptable

Looking forward to the third MIS cardiac surgery workshop based in Sussex- using the new medical school facility Guildford campus. Oversubscribed but please look out for the next one if interested

The BISMICS programme is now live! Check out our packed schedule, featuring a live-in-a-box, parallel sessions on Enhanced Recovery and Imaging, SCP, a multimedia competition, and a complications session And that's just the beginning—explore all the details here: