Cardiothoracic Surgery

Knowledge

• Anti-fibrinolytics
• Atrial Septal Defect
• Cardiac vent
• Cardiopulmonary Bypass
• Cardiothoracic Reading List
• Cardiotomy Suction
• EuroSCORE Calculator
• Intra-operative Cell Salvage
• Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring
• Mental Rehearsal
• Myocardial protection
• Needle-holders
• Rib Fractures
• Suction in cardiac surgery
• Temperature control
• Trials

Skills

• Aorta – Ascending Aorta Replacement
• Aorta – Type A dissection
• Arterial Switch
• ASD closure
• Coarctation repair
• Coronary – CABG overview
• Coronary – Distal coronary anastomosis – single-ended
• Coronary – Great Saphenous vein harvest – Mayo Vein Stripper
• Coronary – Great Saphenous vein open harvest v1
• Coronary – Great Saphenous Vein open harvest v2
• Coronary – Internal Mammary Harvest
• Coronary – Internal thoracic artery harvest
• Coronary – Proximal anastomosis – single-ended
• Coronary – Proximal coronary anastomosis – double-ended
• CP shunt
• Delayed sternal closure
• ECMO
• Lines – Arterial cannulation
• Lines – Internal Jugular Venous Cannulation
• Lines – Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump Insertion
• PDA ligation
• Pulmonary valve replacement
• Ross
• Setup – Bypass Wean & Closure
• Setup – Instituting CPB
• Setup – Median sternotomy close
• Setup – Median sternotomy open
• Setup – Prep and Drape
• Setup – Thoracotomy open
• Surgical chest drain
• Surgical tracheostomy
• VAD chamber change
• Valve – mini-AVR
• Valve – Mitral Valve Repair
• VSD Closure

Congenital

• Arterial Switch
• ASD closure
• Coarctation repair
• CP shunt
• Delayed sternal closure
• ECMO
• PDA ligation
• Pulmonary valve replacement
• Ross
• TGA
• UK Training Pathway for Congenital Cardiac Surgery
• VAD chamber change
• VSD Closure

Surgery

Specialty Training

• Anatomy Demonstrating in the UK
• Cardiothoracic Surgery UK Training pathway (2014)
• Core Surgery 2013
• FRCS Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Ideas for Improving Process of Cardiac Surgery
• Ideas for Improving Specialty Training Application Process
• Scotland Trauma and Orthopaedics ST1 2013
• Study Budget across UK Deaneries
• UK Specialty Training Index
• UK Training Pathway for Congenital Cardiac Surgery

MRCS

• Limb Anatomy Revision
• MRCS Part B Tips (2013)
• MRCS Results statistics (updated Apr 2014)

Interesting

• Abstract indexer
• Anatomy Demonstrating in the UK
• Cardiothoracic Surgery UK Training pathway (2014)
• Core Surgery 2013
• Cranial nerves
• Einstein’s aneurysm
• FRCS Cardiothoracic Surgery
• History of Trauma Surgery
• Ideas for Improving Process of Cardiac Surgery
• Ideas for Improving Specialty Training Application Process
• Ideas from Kennedy Review 2013
• Larynx
• Limb Anatomy Revision
• MRCS Part B Tips (2013)
• MRCS Results statistics (updated Apr 2014)
• Scotland Trauma and Orthopaedics ST1 2013
• Study Budget across UK Deaneries
• UK Specialty Training Index
• UK Training Pathway for Congenital Cardiac Surgery