Evaluate and Claim Credit
To receive continuing education credit, access the online evaluation at corexcel.com/sts. To receive a certificate or claim CE credit for any session(s), you must complete an evaluation. The evaluation must be completed in one sitting; if you do not do so, your progress will be lost.
Participants may choose to claim nursing contact hours, perfusionist CEUs, or a certificate of attendance. Your certificate will be sent as a PDF to the email address provided during the evaluation process. Certificates will be processed once a month based on the prior month's completions, through Friday, December 13, 2024.
Hot Topics Webinars
Each registry will host an AQO Hot Topics webinar in October 2024; we will bring back meeting speakers and give virtual attendees a chance to ask questions. The meeting includes valuable research and best practices from STS National Database professionals, all to improve data collection and patient outcomes.
Congenital Heart Surgery Database
Tuesday, Oct. 22, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. ET
Welcome
CHSD Database Update (Diana Hersey and Angie Ebel)
More on Post-Op Events (Cassandra Davidson)
Driving Patient Outcomes Using STS Data (Amanda McGlinchey, Timothe L'Heureux, Erin Hunter-McPhan, and Susana Reid)
ACHD (Dr. Jen Nelson)
Single Ventricle (Dr. John Mayer)
Coding Complex Congenital Cases (Chasity Wellnitz and Leslie Wacker)
AV Canal (Dr. Subi Shashidharan and Ruthie Lemus)
Coding Valves (Becky Sam)
Adult Cardiac Surgery Database
Thursday, Oct. 24, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. ET
Adult Cardiac High-Level Overview (Michael Bowdish)
Post-Op Events (Amy Lantzy and Meetali Machendrakar)
Annular Enlargement (Amy Geltz)
Anonymous Anomalous (Glenn Whitman)
Anatomy & Dissection of the Op Note (Dawn Hui)
Gridding the Graft Grid (Guy Paone and Patty Theurer)
Get to the Root: Anatomy of Root Operations (Karen Kim)
Aorta Q&A (Karen Kim, Dawn Hui, Kali Carroll, and Nancy Honeycutt)
General Thoracic Surgery Database
Monday, Oct. 28, 1 - 5 p.m. ET
Welcome (Leigh Ann Jones)
Lung Cancer (Dr. Justin Blasber and Katie Lothrop)
Division of Responsibility: Data Manager vs. Surgeon (Brian Green)
Achieving Commission on Cancer Operative Standard 5.8 for Primary Lung Cancer (Dr. Stephen Broderick
GTSD REvised Risk Models and Risk Calculators (Dr. Chris Seder)
Esophageal Cancer PFTs (Ruth Raleigh)
How to Use My Data for Quality Improvement (Dr. Kiran Lagisetty and Elise Hollenbeck)
General Q&A (Core group being the scenes panel members)
Intermacs/Pedimacs
Tuesday, Oct. 29. 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. ET
Welcome (Nancy Honeycutt)
Quality Improvement How to Use Your Intermacs/Pedimacs Data (Marie Wilson)
Dashboard/Kaplan-Meier Tool (Brandon Singletary)
Live Data Download: Tips & Tricks (Devin Koehl)
Data Quality Report Verification Process (Sheila Bailey)
Death, Explant, and Transfer Oh My! (Sylvia Laundun)
Temporary Mechanical Support for the Treatment of Right Heart Failure and Case Scenarios (Aniket Rali, Sylvia Laundun)
General Q&A (Patricia Potter, Nancy Honeycutt, Jeanne Anne Love, James Kirklin, and John Pennington)