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Society Reports, Protocols and Guidelines

Working Group Reports

Report from the Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons and the British Cardiac Society on models of care for the delivery of cardiac surgery

Report on the conflict between service and training in cardiothoracic surgery

Report on the critical under provision of surgery for lung cancer in the UK

Report on common waiting lists for coronary surgery

Report on surgical cross cover arrangements

Specialist Advisory Committee Report on training requirements for thoracic surgery in the United Kingdom.

Clinical Guidelines

Video assisted thoracic surgery guidelines for practice, training and procedure development (PDF format)

Guidelines for good audit practice in cardiothoracic surgery

Recommendations for Standards of Monitoring and Alarms during Cardiopulmonary Bypass from a joint working party of the Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons, The Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthetists and the Society of perfusionists. Click to download as a PDF document or a Word document.

International guidelines for anticoagulation following heart valve replacement

Recommendations on the workload of cardiothoracic surgeons

European Society of Cardiology Taskforce Report: The legal implications of medical guidelines. (PDF format)

European Society of Cardiology guidelines on driving and heart disease. (PDF format)

Draft guidelines on the surgical resection of oesophageal cancer

ESC Guidelines on diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism (PDF formt)