Syllabus
Introduction to adult cardiac surgery. Operations for ischaemic heart disease (with the use of cardiopulmonary bypass, "beating heart / off-pump" surgery).
Less invasive / minimally invasive cardiac surgery. Valvular procedures (mechanical heart valve prostheses, bioprostheses, valvular plasty).
Peri-operative management. Aneurysms of thoracic aorta, dissections.
Cardiac trauma.
Annotation
A part of surgical discipline modulus.