This session highlights the top rated Critical Care/Mechanical Circulatory Support abstracts submitted to STS2021.

*Unless otherwise noted, speakers have nothing to disclose.

Moderators

Francis Pagani

Ahmet Kilic

Digital Moderators

Amy Fiedler

Presentations:

1. Failure to Rescue: A New STS Quality Metric for Cardiac Surgery - Paul Kurlansky, David Shahian

2. Discussant for the J. Maxwell Chamberlain Memorial Paper for Perioperative and Critical Care Surgery - Glenn Whitman

(Commercial Relationships: Cellphire: Research Grant; GWBN LLC, Ownership interest)

3. Progression to Transplant Under the New UNOS Allocation System: Analysis of the STS INTERMACS Database - Leora Yarboro

4. Discussant for the Richard E. Clark Memorial Paper for Critical Care Surgery - Scott Silvestry

(Commercial Relationships: Abbott, Abiomed, Medtronic, SynCardia: Consultant/Advisory Board)

5. A Nationwide Analysis of Mechanical Circulatory Support for Right Ventricular Failure at time of Left Ventricular Assist Device Placement - Jared Beller

6. Discussant - Vivek Rao

(Commercial Relationships: Abbott Vascular: Consultant Advisory/Board, Speaker Honoraria Medtronic: Consultant Advisory/Board, Ownership Interest, Speaker Honoraria, Non-remunerative positions of influence)

7. Generalizability of MOMENTUM 3 Clinical Trial Findings to Real-World Practice: An Analysis of the STS INTERMACS Database - Alexander Brescia

8. Discussant - Ashish Shah