SCTS Foundation Doctor Academy | Session 1: Coronary Heart Disease

This national cardiothoracic teaching programme is brought to you by Dr Hanad Ahmed, on behalf of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland (SCTS) Education and Trainee Committees. It is the first centralised teaching programme specifically targeting foundation doctors. We hope this programme provides you with an insight into the specialty and a grounding in many of the core disease processes and their management at foundation (intern) and core training level.

Session 1 covers Coronary Heart Disease with our guest speaker Mr Yassir Iqbal, an ST8 Cardiothoracic Registrar in the West Midlands.

00:00 Introduction
00:56 Coronary anatomy
04:41 Pathophysiology of coronary heart disease
11:28 Clinical presentation and assessment
21:38 Importance of patient assessment
25:14 Surgical considerations
26:21 Pre-operative investigations & case triage
36:16 Coronary angiogram
41:21 Cardiac stress test
43:48 Risk stratification
45:05 Guidelines on myocardial revascularisation & the heart team
49:11 Coronary artery bypass surgery
01:01:27 Clinical scenarios
01:03:22 Closing