“Washkansky’s heart was then removed, [and] for the first time in my life, I stared into an empty chest... At that moment, the full impact of what I was attempting became abundantly clear to me." ~Christiaan Barnard on the first successful human heart Tx Tinyurl.com/yyvjxtpg

I'm incredibly thankful for all of our excellent camp staff this year, but there was one in particular who made this summer extra special. After years of working camps for my dad, this Fathers Day he flew out for a couple weeks and returned the favor 😁: katv.com/sports/content…

Congrats to my guy Logan Dahms !!! Big time

José Díaz-Balart See the full report from José Díaz-Balart: A basketball star turns in his NBA jersey for an Army uniform. nbcnews.com/nightly-news/v…

Jackie K. Olive, MD Ian McCurry, MD Krish Dewan Aravind Krishnan, MD @ASuarezPierre Thais Faggion Vinholo Rolando D Calderon-Rojas William Frankel Hiba Ghandour Lena E. Trager, MD Jessica G.Y. Luc, MD, LLM, FRCSC would love your help in connecting with those interested in CT!

What cannulation strategy do you guys prefer for DeBekay II dissection with aberrant right subclavian? Have seen two of these this week and am curious what others are doing.

Congrats to the newest integrated cardiac surgery residents at PennSurgery! Can't wait for Andrew Acker and Nick Goel to join the team.

Today is the day! Please join CTSurgSocMedNetwork team, Dr. Mara Antonoff, MD, FACS and I in a #COVID19 #Covid_19 #COVID2019 #TweetChat March 29, 2020 at 9pmEST! Chat hashtag-> #TSSMN Ping The Society of Thoracic Surgeons AATS The Annals of Thoracic Surgery AATS Journals RAS-ACS WomenInThoracicSurg WomenSurgeons American College of Surgeons

How good are our #COVID19 tests? Nasal swabs good enough? Jason Han Benjamin Smood Aspiring CT Surgeons

Very interesting take homes from an excellent webinar from Japan. Hypercoagulable state, timeline of patient deterioration , longer ECMO increases risk to personnel through plasma leak and need further circuit change being high, and no prone prior to ECMO to safeguard personnel !

#COVID19 #COVID #COVID_ECMO Please DM me if you'd be willing to contribute to a distributed database for the US that mirrors what ELSO has been doing in Europe for ECMO use in COVID. Open-source. Anyone who contributes can use all data to help patients. Aspiring CT Surgeons

#COVID #ECMO_COVID Japan interim data on 32 cases. 67% weaned off successfully! longest course on ECMO 21 days, shortest 9 days.

The ELSO Real-Time Data Reporting Platform on #COVID19 is now live! Check out the link here: bit.ly/2R0vPKr check #ECMO Statistics, for all cases including those still on run cases that have completed their run, and discharged pts Thank you The ELSO Registry

Our EPIC EHRs are capturing mountains of data on COVID patients - info that could help drive clinical decision making and resource utilization. Are we maximizing on this information at a national level? How can we get access to national level real-time data? Harlan Krumholz #covid19

Are you an aspiring CT surgeon planning on applying or have already matched into residency in the US? This survey hopes to shed insight into who we are, so we can best serve our interests. Please share! forms.gle/FiJtjaKKk3QiNE…

New FREE CTSNet app available CTSurgSocMedNetwork ctsnet.org/news/ctsnet-la…

Everyone who's interested in applying to an I-6 CT surgery program this year, Penn will be hosting our virtual information session on Sunday, Sept 20th at 7 PM! Please register at this link and come meet the attending surgeons and the residents at Penn! bit.ly/2Rkpucp

Reminder for this session tonight! Hope to see you all there!!

Meet our newest, incredible Donald R. Laub fellow 超级无敌暴龙战神. We are so lucky to have her during her research year from Johns Hopkins Medicine while she also serves Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Curtis National Hand Center Research. Learn about her amazing career and her plans! resurge.org/blog/story/an-…

Don't miss the virtual #Cardiovascular Grand Rounds from Drs Joe Bavaria (@BavariaMD) & Nimesh Desai MD PhD Thurs 11/12 at 7:30 AM on a New Comprehensive Model of Care for Patients with #Aortic Diseases. On Zoom at bit.ly/2IknyQb. Meeting ID: 827 5135 4279 | Passcode: 580142