Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia Partnership
Advanced Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia Education
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Heart failure, MCS & Transplant (July 2025) Feedback
Please click the red button below to access our quick feedback form for the CAP+ACTTI Heart failure, MCS and Transplant meeting - all comments and feedback welcome.
CAP Course!
CAP+ACTTI Acute Heart Failure, MCS & Transplant Study Day
Friday 4th July 2025
0900-1700
Lectures and Interactive Workshops
COURSE FULL! SOLD OUT. Waiting list available
New and Improved!
New Video Library
We've rearranged our videos to make it easier to find the ones you want to watch. They are now arranged in playlists by general theme but also try searching on the page (Ctrl+F or Cmd+F) for keywords to find the relevant videos. If you can think of any topics/themes that would be useful please let us know!
Echo
TOE the Line
Dr Alisha Allana et al's excellent TOE revision course for the BSE and EACVI exams and fTOE accreditation is back for its third year!
Taking place 21-22 May 2025 in Southampton, places are limited so sign up via email using the red button below.
Echo
Oxford ACHD Echo
A fantastic website with great diagrams of congenital lesions to help get your head round echo for ACHD patients.
Dr Jo Lim will also be running her 12 week ACHD echo course again this year - email Jo to be notified when the live course recommences.
New Collaboration
Welcome ACTTI
CAP are very pleased to announce a new collaboration with the Association of Cardiothoracic Transplant Intensivists. We will be hosting their webpage and meeting recordings. Click the red button below to view the ACTTI homepage at www.CardiothoracicAnaesthesia.com/actti
Thank you!
Thanks to all 75 of our fantastic speakers who presented at eleven CAP meetings in 2022
And thanks of course to everyone who joined us in person and online for our meeitngs, and all those who have watched our videos and visited this website!
LOTS more to come in 2023, see you in January!!!
resources now available to all!!!
Piezofest 2022
Thank you so much to all our amazing faculty and delegates who made Piezofest such a fantastic experience! We've uploaded some photos here and we will be making the course educational videos and resources available to all from next month.
Our course resources are now available to all so head over to our Piezofest Resources page to find lots of fantastic videos on:
- regional anaesthesia
- FUSIC HD (TTE)
- TOE (perioperative basics, fTOE and 3D)
- Perioperative lung ultrasound
CLAP Awards 2021
People's Choice Award 2021
Best Non-Anaesthetist Presentation
People's Choice Award 2021
Dr Bonnie Kyle's "All is calm in the heart attack centre" was our most viewed video in 2021.
Best Trainee Presentation
Best Non-Anaesthetist Presentation
People's Choice Award 2021
Dr Rachel Fraser's presentation "Re-Do Jehovah's Witness" was our favourite talk by a trainee in 2021!
Best Non-Anaesthetist Presentation
Best Non-Anaesthetist Presentation
Best Non-Anaesthetist Presentation
Upper GI Surgeon Miss Cara Baker's talk on Management and Sequelae of Oesophageal Injury wins our best MDT presentation.
Best Anaesthetist Presentation
Best Non-Anaesthetist Presentation
Dr Matthew Barnard wins the Anaesthetic Presentation award for "Introduction to Grown-Up Congenital Heart Disease" which includes a fantastic pig heart dissection video, the latter earning this video age-restricted status on YouTube!
What do they win?
What do they win?
All winners will receive a snazzy certificate, a bottle of mid range Vin de Tesco and of course a much sought-after CLAP Lanyard (in enoximone yellow)
TOE Accreditation
Check out our new guide to the TOE accreditation process in our new guide, weighing up the pros & cons of the BSE, EACVI and NBE pathways.