Does Timing Matter? The Effect of Intensive Care Unit Arrival Timing on Elective Cardiac Surgery

Authors: Wisniewski, Alex M. ^{1, ∗∗}, Challa, Sanjana ¹, Strobel, Raymond J. ¹, Norman, Anthony V. ¹, Yarboro, Leora T. ¹, Yount, Kenan ¹, Kern, John ¹, Mazzeffi, Michael ², Teman, Nicholas R. ¹

Source: In The Annals of Thoracic Surgery February 2025 119(2):451-459

Cardiac donation after circulatory death in adult congenital heart disease: Early national experiences and outcomes

Authors: Wisniewski, Alex M., Weber, Matthew P., Kareddy, Abhinav, Teman, Nicholas R., Beller, Jared P., Yarboro, Leora T. ^∗

Source: In JTCVS Open December 2024

Cardiac Surgical Unit-Advanced Life Support–certified centers are associated with improved failure to rescue after cardiac arrest: A propensity score–matched analysis

Authors: Weber, Matthew P. ^a, Strobel, Raymond J. ^a, Norman, Anthony V. ^a, Kareddy, Abhinav ^a, Young, Andrew ^a, Young, Steven ^a, El Moheb, Mohamad ^a, Noona, Sean W.W. ^a, Wisniewski, Alexander M. ^a, Quader, Mohammed ^c, Mazzeffi, Michael ^b, Yarboro, Leora T. ^a, Teman, Nicholas R. ^{a, ∗}

Source: In The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery April 2025 169(4):1271-1281

Machine Learning on 50,000 Manuscripts Shows Increased Clinical Research by Academic Cardiac Surgeons

Authors: Chandrabhatla, Anirudha S., Narahari, Adishesh K., Qiu, Kevin T., Vasiliadis, Theodore, Nguyen, Joseph D., Singh, Aditya, Gray, Kennedy, Strobel, Raymond J., Yount, Kenan W., Yarboro, Leora T., Kron, Irving L., Mehaffey, J. Hunter, Preventza, Ourania A., Kern, John A., Teman, Nicholas R.

Source: In Journal of Surgical Research November 2024 303:71-80

Renal recovery in cardiac surgery patients requiring postoperative renal-replacement therapy

Authors: Ahmad, Raza M., Strobel, Raymond J., Young, Andrew M., Wisniewski, Alex, Zhang, Ashley, Kaplan, Emily, Yarboro, Leora T., Yount, Kenan W., Beller, Jared, Teman, Nicholas R.

Source: In The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery October 2024 168(4):1132-1139

Operating Room Extubation for Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery: A National Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database Analysis

Authors: Teman, Nicholas R., Strobel, Raymond J., Bonnell, Levi N., Preventza, Ourania, Yarboro, Leora T., Badhwar, Vinay, Kaneko, Tsuyoshi, Habib, Robert H., Mehaffey, J. Hunter, Beller, Jared P.

Source: In The Annals of Thoracic Surgery September 2024 118(3):692-699

Center case volume is associated with Society of Thoracic Surgeons–defined failure to rescue in cardiac surgery

Authors: Strobel, Raymond J., Young, Andrew M., Rotar, Evan P., Kaplan, Emily F., Hawkins, Robert B., Norman, Anthony V., Ahmad, Raza M., Joseph, Mark, Quader, Mohammed, Rich, Jeffrey B., Speir, Alan M., Yarboro, Leora T., Mehaffey, J. Hunter, Teman, Nicholas R.

Source: In The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery July 2024 168(1):165-174

Extracorporeal Life Support Organization Center of Excellence recognition is associated with improved failure to rescue after cardiac arrest

Authors: Strobel, Raymond J., Money, Dustin T., Young, Andrew M., Wisniewski, Alex M., Norman, Anthony V., Ahmad, Raza M., Kaplan, Emily F., Joseph, Mark, Quader, Mohammed, Mazzeffi, Michael, Yarboro, Leora T., Teman, Nicholas R.

Source: In The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery May 2024 167(5):1866-1877

Socioeconomic distress is associated with failure to rescue in cardiac surgery

Authors: Strobel, Raymond J., Kaplan, Emily F., Young, Andrew M., Rotar, Evan P., Mehaffey, J. Hunter, Hawkins, Robert B., Joseph, Mark, Quader, Mohammed A., Yarboro, Leora T., Teman, Nicholas R.

Source: In The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery March 2024 167(3):1100-1114

Appropriateness of Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement for Severe Aortic Stenosis Is Increasing

Authors: Strobel, Raymond J., Sahli, Zeyad T., Mehaffey, J. Hunter, Hawkins, Robert B., Young, Andrew M., Quader, Mohammed, Dehmer, Gregory J., Teman, Nicholas R., Yarboro, Leora T., Likosky, Donald S., Badhwar, Vinay, Kron, Irving L., Ailawadi, Gorav

Source: In The Annals of Thoracic Surgery February 2024 117(2):361-368

Operating Room Versus Intensive Care Unit Extubation Within 6 Hours After On-Pump Cardiac Surgery: Early Results and Hospital Costs

Authors: Hawkins, Andrew D. ^*, Strobel, Raymond J. ^*, Mehaffey, J. Hunter ^*, Hawkins, Robert B., Rotar, Evan P. ^*, Young, Andrew M. ^*, Yarboro, Leora T. ^*, Yount, Kenan ^*, Ailawadi, Gorav, Joseph, Mark, Quader, Mohammed, Teman, Nicholas R. ^*

Source: In Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Summer 2024 36(2):195-208

Prophylactic left atrial appendage ligation during coronary artery bypass grafting: A propensity score–matched analysis

Authors: Noona, Sean W.W., Young, Steven D., Weber, Matthew P., El Moheb, Mohamad, Norman, Anthony V., Wisniewski, Alex M., Strobel, Raymond J., Quader, Mohammed, Mazzeffi, Michael A., Yarboro, Leora T., Beller, Jared P., Teman, Nicholas R.

Source: In The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery August 2024

The influence of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery on clinical trial development by cardiothoracic surgeons

Authors: Narahari, Adishesh K., Horgan, Taylor M., Chandrabhatla, Anirudha S., Kareddy, Abhinav, Gikandi, Ajami, Zenati, Marco A., Harpole, David, Jones, David, Yarboro, Leora T., Burt, Bryan, Krupnick, A. Sasha, Mehaffey, J. Hunter

Source: In The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery September 2024

COMPETENCE Trial: The EVAHEART 2 continuous flow left ventricular assist device

Authors: Allen, Steven R., Slaughter, Mark S., Ahmed, Mustafa M., Bartoli, Carlo R., Dhingra, Ravi, Egnaczyk, Gregory F., Gulati, Sanjeev K., Kiernan, Michael S., Mahr, Claudius, Meyer, Dan M., Motomura, Tadashi, Ono, Masahiro, Ravichandran, Ashwin, Shafii, Alexis, Smith, Jason, Soleimani, Behzad, Toyoda, Yoshiya, Yarboro, Leora T., Dowling, Robert D.

Source: Journal of heart and lung transplantation. 42(1):33-39

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Long term employment following heart transplantation in the United States

Authors: Cramer, Christopher L., Marsh, Katherine, Krebs, Elizabeth D., Mehaffey, J. Hunter, Beller, Jared P., Chancellor, W. Zachary, Teman, Nicholas R., Yarboro, Leora T.

Source: Journal of heart and lung transplantation. 42(7):880-887

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Cardiac Surgery Outcomes During the COVID-19 Pandemic Worsened Across All Socioeconomic Statuses

Authors: Kaplan, Emily F., Strobel, Raymond J., Young, Andrew M., Wisniewski, Alex M., Ahmad, Raza M., Mehaffey, J. Hunter, Hawkins, Robert B., Yarboro, Leora T., Quader, Mohammad, Teman, Nicholas R.

Source: Annals of thoracic surgery. 115(6):1511-1518

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Pulmonary Hypertension and Operative Risk in Mitral Valve and Coronary Surgery

Authors: Hawkins, Robert B., Strobel, Raymond J., Mehaffey, J. Hunter, Quader, Mohammed A., Joseph, Mark, Speir, Alan M., Yarboro, Leora T., Ailawadi, Gorav

Source: Journal of surgical research. 286:49-56

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Temporal Cluster Analysis of Deep Sternal Wound Infection in a Regional Quality Collaborative

Authors: Hawkins, Andrew D., Scott, Erik J., De Guzman, Jeison, Ratcliffe, Sarah J., Mehaffey, J. Hunter, Hawkins, Robert B., Strobel, Raymond J., Speir, Alan, Joseph, Mark, Yarboro, Leora T., Teman, Nicholas R.

Source: In Journal of Surgical Research November 2023 291:67-72

Socioeconomic Distress Associated With Increased Use of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Over Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

Authors: Strobel, Raymond J., Mehaffey, J. Hunter, Hawkins, Robert B., Young, Andrew M., Scott, Erik J., Quader, Mohammed, Dehmer, Gregory J., Rich, Jeffrey B., Ailawadi, Gorav, Kron, Irving L., Ragosta, Michael, Yarboro, Leora T., Teman, Nicholas R.

Source: In The Annals of Thoracic Surgery April 2023 115(4):914-921

Changes in Controllable Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Practice for White and Black Americans

Authors: Rotar, Evan P., Scott, Erik J., Hawkins, Robert B., Mehaffey, J. Hunter, Strobel, Raymond J., Charles, Eric J., Quader, Mohammed A., Joseph, Mark, Teman, Nicholas R., Yarboro, Leora T., Ailawadi, Gorav

Source: In The Annals of Thoracic Surgery April 2023 115(4):922-928