CV Now

In recent years, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, or MICS, has revolutionized the cardiac surgery field, offering opportunities to minimize patient trauma and speed up recovery times for a variety of cardiac interventions. We gathered a group of MICS experts to give us a primer on MICS for cardiovascular healthcare professionals. They’ll go into what qualifies as minimally invasive cardiac surgery, how MICS has evolved over time, differences from traditional cardiac surgery, training considerations, the role of professional societies, and more.

Although COVID-19 is primarily an upper respiratory infection, there is increasing evidence of cardiovascular complications, and cardiac patients are particularly susceptible to severe infection. On today’s podcast, Dr. Mouaz Al-Mallah, cardiologist from Houston Methodist Hospital, delves into the cardiovascular considerations for COVID-19 infections and best practices for managing these complex patients.

This week, we’re sharing part two of our series on critical care for COVID-19 patients. Our critical care panel covers pathophysiology and emerging treatment options as well as innovations to keep patients and healthcare professionals safe.

This week, we’re bringing you part 1 of our series on critical care during the COVID-19 era, starting with early experiences and lessons from critical care physicians in the COVID-19 pandemic. Together they sort through some of the early information and misinformation in the early months of the pandemic. This conversation was recorded on March 31, 2020.

On this week’s show, we’re looking at a different aspect of how healthcare professionals are impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. The pandemic has turned everyone’s lives, professional and personal, upside down, and we wanted to know, how does this new normal affect surgeons’ careers, family, and even pregnancies? Working with the International Society of Endovascular Specialists, we brought together a panel of physicians from around the United States to discuss.

Patients with congenital heart disease are living longer than ever, making adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) a growing specialty. ACHD experts Dr. Ari Cedars and Dr. Hani Najm join Houston Methodist physicians to discuss opportunities and challenges for physicians in the ACHD space.

A timely discussion on ECMO during the coronavirus pandemic.

In the premiere of CV Now, we’re discussing technological innovations and collaborations that have the potential to revolutionize cardiovascular medicine. Listen to interviews with Drs. Sanjiv Narayan and Elliot Chaikof, experts in translational medicine, as they discuss new mapping techniques for atrial fibrillation and training a new generation of surgeon-innovators.