16/03/2025 - 18/03/2025, 6:00 am-6:00 pm - Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
The SCTS Annual Conference 2025, organized by the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland (SCTS), will be held on March 16-18, 2025. The society’s yearly gathering remains dedicated to the exchange of the latest concepts, learnings, and best practices for the cardiothoracic surgical community’s continuous growth.
Exhibition Booth: At SCTS Annual Meeting 2025, attendees can meet AtriCure’s teams at booth #46 to get more insights into the latest advances in AF treatment and post-operative pain management.
High-level Program:
University Day Session: The SCTS University day takes place on Sunday, March 16th from 09:00-17:00. We invite you to join the Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery session taking place in the FINTRY room at 15:30. In this session Professor Thorsten Hanke will share the new 2024 ESC/EACTS AF Surgical Guidelines.
Program
-Patient Selection Criteria for Minimal Access Cardiac Surgery: The Role of Imaging
Giulia Benedetti, MD – St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK
-MICS and ERAS: Advancing Beyond Minimal Incision
Marco Di Eusanio, MD – Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy
– Do Sutureless and Rapid Deployment Prostheses Facilitate the Adoption of Minimal Access Cardiac Surgery?
Ruggero De Paulis, MD – European Hospital, Rome, Italy
-Anything New in AF in Europe? The New 2024 ESC/EACTS AF Surgical Guidelines
Thorsten Hanke, MD – Asklepios Clinic Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
Cryo Nerve Block Lunchbox Session: Cryo Nerve Block (cryoNB) Therapy: Outcomes and Patient Benefits in Cardiothoracic Surgery After 4 Years of Usage in the UK.
On Sunday, March 16 at 12:30, we will host a Lunchbox session focusing on Cryo Nerve Block (cryoNB) Therapy in room PETLAND. CryoNB is an innovative solution that helps relieve the pain the patient takes home after thoracic surgical procedures. The session will feature expert faculty on cryoanalgesia.
Program:
-Postoperative Pain after Thoracic Surgery: Incidence and the Role of Cryoanalgesia as Part of Multimodality Management.
Edward J. Caruana, MD – Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
-Evaluation Of Efficacy Of Intercostal Cryo-analgesia: Early Single- Centre Experience
Kandadai Rammohan, MD – Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK
-Pectus Excavatum Surgery – Application of cryoNB in Chest Wall Deformity and Clinical Outcomes
Joel Dunning, MD – James Cook University Hospital Middlesbrough, UK
You can download the flyer here
Evening Symposium: We will organize an SCTS Evening Symposium titled “Shifting the Paradigm in AFib Surgery: Why Sinus Rhythm Matters” on Monday 17 March at 17:00 in room TINTO.
Moderator: Cha Rajakaruna, MD – Bristol Heart Institute, Bristol, United Kingdom
Program:
-Benefits of Sinus Rhythm in CABG & Aortic Patients with AF
Cha Rajakaruna, MD – Bristol Heart Institute, Bristol, UK
-Detect and Protect: a Patient-Centric Approach
Syed Ahsan, MD – Barts Heart Centre, London, UK
-Understanding LAA Exclusion
Thorsten Hanke, MD – Asklepios Clinic Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
-The BOXX Procedure: Posterior Wall and AtriClip®
John Yap, MD – Barts Heart Centre, London, UK
You can download the flyer here
*Speakers are subject to change.
Click here to visit the official SCTS website for full program information.