Bleeding is red Prolene is blue The light could be better The suctioning too #ValentinesDay #SurgicalPoetry #DidntBlameAnesthesia

Have you always wanted to implant an LVAD? Come join CCS Trainee Committee & expert MCS cardiac surgeons for our annual CSCS wet lab: CCC-143 – Surgical Skills: Durable LVAD, Fri Oct 27 @ 0830 #VASC23 #CCCongress

#VASC23 will feature many CCS Early Career (Year 1-3) members! Watch for these members involved in "SURGICAL SKILLS: DURABLE LVAD" & "ADVANCED SURGICAL SKILLS: AORTIC ROOT SURGERY" & other surgery-focused sessions. Browse the full #CCCongress program here: ow.ly/OptS50PWOZw

Extremely grateful to learn about LVAD implantation from Carly Lodewyks today at this morning’s CCS Trainee Committee Surgical Skills session. It was incredible to be in the room with expert cardiac surgeons from across the country. CSCS #CCC23 #VASC23

It's a wrap! Our 5th annual @StanfordCTSurg Pumpkin Carving Contest was awesome! Congrats to everyone who participated this year! We had some very impressive pumpkins! 🎃 #PumpkinCarveContest2023 #CTSWinners

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Asher's Story: The domino #hearttransplant is an innovation built on the Duke Health-pioneered world’s first partial heart transplant. Duke Surgery | Duke Heart | Duke Anesthesiology | Duke Children's | Duke University School of Medicine | #DominoHeartTransplant

Exciting delivery today- Call me old fashioned, but there’s nothing like reading a real textbook. #DtC

Best aHF team in the world. Supported by the best Tx ID team in the world. Couldn’t imagine doing what we do without camwolfe and company!

Manitoba makes it official, declaring #HeartFailureWeekCAN in a provincial proclamation! Pictured L-R are: H&S MB Director Christine Houde, Minister Uzoma Asagwara Uzoma Asagwara, Dr. Shelley Zieroth, Ray Souque, Estrellita Estrella-Holder & Mona Souque. CHFS

Super fun afternoon teaching this great group about one of my favourite operations! Thanks to Abbott for the support.

Our 🫀 team at Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation is excited to share our #ECMO distal perfusion catheter experience in asaiojournal! With a strict protocol for limb ischemia monitoring, selective rather than prophylactic DPC use was: ⚕️safe 🩸had a low complication rate ⚠️obviated the need for an

Just out in JACC Journals: Early US experience with DCD heart transplantation using NRP 🔹Of 918 DCD hearts transplanted, 32% used NRP 🔹Early survival outcomes appear to favor NRP over DPP sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Congrats Abby Benkert and the Duke Heart team!

Thanks to WCCO | CBS News Minnesota and Susie Jones for inviting us to talk about our recent study and #HeartHealth- such a great experience! Listen here!👉 audacy.com/podcasts/wcco-… Retu Saxena #WIC #ACCFIT #GoRedForWomen JAHA AmericanHeartAssocMN American Heart Association Kevin Harris Michelle Carlson

Next week, our #CV Grand Rounds series continues with a joint presentation from Drs. Benjamin Sun and Frank Moga on “Complex Congenital Case: The New Era”. 🩺 Access additional speaker details and the webinar link here: buff.ly/43oOCTD

Duke has always been known as "a university in the forest," but wait until you see this amazing aerial shot captured by drone pilot and photographer Bill Snead! Get ready to be blown away by the beauty of our campus from above. 🌲🚁

Add being a visible minority and having a name from the global south and you find yourself reduced to nicknames with no titles in the very same communications (referrals, talks) where your colleagues are called Dr Lastname. And you’re asked / expected not to mind. #SayOurNames

I look at this screen everyday and it took me until now to realize the continent is actually a cow.

🔥 Prothrombin Complex Concentrate vs Frozen Plasma for Coagulopathic Bleeding in Cardiac Surgery: The FARES-II Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial | Bleeding and Transfusion | @JAMA | ⁦JAMA Network⁩ | #ACC25 🫀 jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Congratulations to Dr. Lodewyks on being the first female surgeon to perform a case for the IMPACT study! 🎉💕