Cardiothoracic
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Promoting yourself and building your practice
Training in cardiothoracic surgery is long and arduous. Through it all, one’s chief concerns are generally limited to becoming a proficient physician and surgeon while attending to the basic necessities of life (i.e., sleep and the occasional meal). Then, mercifully, it ends, and you take that first job, typically move to a new city, and, if you’re lucky, get right to work with a full clinic and caseload. On the other hand, as is common for many, you now have an ample amount of time and very few patients or cases. At this point you have two options: Sit and wait, or get out there and do what comes least naturally to most of us; promote yourself.
Full disclosure, I’ve done a lot of…
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Hospitals printing 3-D hearts to help in surgeries
Though the practice still isn't widespread, some doctors and hospitals are printing 3-D models of patients' hearts to help prepare for operations. With use of 3-D printed heart models expected to grow...
How to Build Your Academic Career
Four esteemed cardiothoracic surgeons and mentors discuss how they were influenced, important things to look for and consider, the value of having good mentors, and more.
Managing Controversial Issues in Thoracic Surgery
This issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics depicts the contemporary controversies around the management of both benign and malignant conditions in Thoracic Surgery. The discussions are very relevant to the daily practice of surgeons and provide an organized summary and interpretation of the latest published literature relevant to each topic.
Michael DeBakey: What I've Learned
One of the rarest things that we do is think. I don't know why people don't do it more often. It doesn't cost anything. Think about that...
More than half a million heart surgery patients at risk of deadly infection
More than half a million patients who had open-heart surgery in the United States in the past several years could be at risk for a deadly bacterial infection linked to a device used during their operations, federal health officials said Thursday.
Promoting yourself and building your practice
Training in cardiothoracic surgery is long and arduous. Through it all, one’s chief concerns are generally limited to becoming a proficient physician and surgeon while attending to the basic necessities of life (i.e., sleep and the occasional meal). Then, mercifully, it ends, and you take that first job...
10 Things We Can Learn From the World’s Greatest Surgeon
On July 12, 2008, the world lost an incredible talent. A renegade physician, a pioneer, the father of open-heart surgery, and perhaps the best surgeon who ever lived, Dr. Michael DeBakey died of natural causes at 99. Because of his groundbreaking research, cutting-edge medical devices and maverick approach to cardiac surgery, DeBakey literally changed the rules of the game and thousands of lives are saved each day.
CTSNet
CTSNet's organizational vision is to "Leverage Internet connectivity to facilitate communication, collaboration, education, and interaction amongst cardiothoracic surgeons and their teams across the globe."
EuroSCORE
Operative mortality is a good measure of quality of cardiac surgical care, as long as patient risk factors are taken into consideration. EuroSCORE is a method of calculating predicted operative mortality for patients undergoing cardiac surgery.
Multimedia Manual of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
The Multimedia Manual of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery is the premier online video manual of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery tutorials.
Resources for Residents
The Thoracic Surgery Residents Association (TSRA) offers various resources for medical students, general surgery residents, and cardiothoracic surgery residents and fellows interested cardiothoracic surgery education.
The Patient Guide to Heart, Lung, and Esophageal Surgery
A website presented by cardiothoracic surgeons committed to improving patient care.
Best Hospitals for Cardiology & Heart Surgery
The 50 top-scoring hospitals are ranked. The rest are listed alphabetically.
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