Developer: Edward Bender

EuroSCORE stands for European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation. It identifies a number of risk factors which help to predict mortality from cardiac surgery. The original EuroSCORE...

EuroSCORE stands for European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation. It is a method of predicting the chances of dying during or shortly after undergoing open heart surgery. This...

Surg Journals is a specialty specific scholarly journal aggregator for mobile devices. The app displays RSS feeds and article abstracts for journals of interest to healthcare personnel involved in...

Common scoring systems face problems in their implementation to cardiac surgical patients. Therefore, many general scoring systems such as APACHE and MODS have excluded this subset of patients. ...

Heart Chart is a great tool for the practicing or training cardiac surgeon. With nothing but your finger, draw bypass grafts, repair and replace valves, and make a record of all the other...

The demonstration of cognitive skills is assessed by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery by written examination. These tests are taken during residency training in Thoracic Surgery, for the...

Onc Journals is a specialty specific scholarly journal aggregator for mobile devices. The app displays RSS feeds and article abstracts for journals of interest to healthcare personnel involved...

Risk stratification for medical procedures is an important part of appropriate therapy for many diseases, including coronary artery disease. Statistical models have been published to predict the...

Welcome to Cardiothoracic Surgery Notes, an online review developed by residents in cardiothoracic surgery. CTSN provides a resource for fundamental essential facts for board review and sources for...

Learn bronchoscopy from the comfort and safety of your own home or office. Become familiar with the anatomy of the trachea and bronchi as seen through the flexible fiberoptic bronchoscope without...

RN Journals is a scholarly journal aggregator for mobile devices. The app displays RSS feeds and article abstracts for journals of interest to healthcare personnel involved in nursing and related...

Med Journals is a specialty specific scholarly journal aggregator for mobile devices. The app displays RSS feeds and article abstracts for journals of interest to healthcare personnel involved in...

CTJournals is a specialty specific scholarly journal aggregator for mobile devices. The app displays RSS feeds for journals of interest to healthcare personnel that treat patients with diseases of...

Peds Journals is a scholarly journal aggregator for mobile devices. The app displays RSS feeds and article abstracts for journals of interest to healthcare personnel involved in Pediatrics and...

Cardiology Journals is a specialty specific scholarly journal aggregator for mobile devices. The app displays RSS feeds for journals of interest to healthcare personnel that treat patients with...

Lung cancer is the most common malignancy in the United States. The prognosis of lung cancer depends on its stage. This application calculates the stage of the tumor according to the TNM...

So you really think you’re that smart? On July 8, 2012, you’ll have a chance to prove it! This is a seriously difficult contest, but you could win some pretty serious stuff (for a Cardiothoracic...

CT Case Log was designed for the practicing Cardiothoracic surgeon to keep a record of operations that he or she has performed. The app closely mirrors the case log available on the American Board...

Edward Bender, MD, Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Saint Francis Medical Center in Missouri and ARMUS Corporation, an innovative Silicon Valley based information technology development company in the...

Self Education Self Assessment in Thoracic Surgery (SESATS) is a tool for the training or practicing Thoracic Surgeon to demonstrate his or her cognitive skills for the field. The program covers...

Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery (CABG) is a commonly performed operation used to improve symptoms of angina, prevent major heart attacks, and, in some cases, to prolong lifespan. Although the...