Minimally invasive cardiac surgery(MICS) is an integral component of every future cardiac surgeon’s training. There continues to be a growing global demand towards less invasive surgical techniques. Both cardiologist and cardiac surgeon form “heart teams” to provide patients with novel, minimally invasive procedures, with all their benefits.

Less invasive techniques are often complex and require special knowhow and skills. This book offers an innovative approach to learning, utilizing QR code technology, which refers the reader to essential audio-visual material, which, along with the didactic text, focuses on practical aspects of minimally invasive cardiac surgery. In modern Heart Teams, and with the advent of the hybrid era, surgeons will only be able to survive if they have state-of-the-art skills in less invasive technologies, which can be incorporated in the hybrid theatre and/or trans-catheter arena. This text accompanies the surgeon along this path, and provides clinical advice and practical solutions, beyond the necessary basic knowledge. Which courses to visit, which videos to watch, which centres to join for serious training? How best to exploit public and multimedia? How to consent a patient into a MICS procedure? How to set up a MICS program or practice? In the era of value driven outcomes, and a shift towards shorter and better patient journeys, MICS is a skill that no heart surgeon can be without.

Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery: A Practical Guide is a teaching resource, reference book and manual written by surgeons who both operate and teach the procedures described within.

• • Provides access to online resources via QR codes

• • Includes links to videos and the e-version of the text

• Acts as a gateway to a huge choice of minimally invasive cardiac surgery materials

Review

Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword/Introduction
Chapter 2 History of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
Chapter 3 Howto Set up a Minimally Invasive Program
Chapter 4 Instrumentation and Operating Theater Set up in Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
Chapter 5 Anesthesia for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
Chapter 6 Surgical Approaches in Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
Chapter 7.1 The Aortic Valve: Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement. The Right Anterior Minithoracotomy
Chapter 7.2 Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement: Upper ‘T Sternotomy
Chapter 7.3 The Aortic ‘Valve: Sutureless Valves in the Setting of MICS AVR
Chapter 7.4 The Aortic Valve: Endoscopic Aortic Valve Surgery
Chapter 8.1 Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI): Transapical Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
Chapter 8.2 Transfemoral Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
Chapter 8.3 Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI): Alternative Approaches for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
Chapter 9.1 The Mitral Valve: Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery
Chapter 9.2 The Mitral Valve: Alternative Approaches to Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery
Chapter 9.3 The Mitral Valve: Robotic Mitral Valve Surgery
Chapter 9.4 The Mitral Valve: Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair: MitraClip®
Chapter 10 Minimally Invasive Tricuspid Valve Surgery
Chapter 11 Minimally Invasive Combined Heart Valve Surgery
Chapter 12.1 The Coronaries: Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery
Chapter 12.2 The Coronaries: Robot Facilitated Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
Chapter 12.3 Anaorticr Off-Pump, Total-Arterial Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery: The Coronaries
Chapter 12.4 The Coronaries: Hybrid Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery
Chapter 13 Minimally Invasive Atrial Ablation Surgery
Chapter 14.1 Aortic Surgery: Minimally Invasive Ascending Aortic Surgery
Chapter 14.2 Aortic Surgery: Endovascular and Hybrid Approaches for Distal Arch and Descending Thoracic Aorta
Chapter 15 Minimally Invasive Heart Failure Surgery
Chapter 16 EPILOGUE