HOST (Hands-On Surgical Training) at AATS 104th Annual Meeting

The 104th AATS Annual Meeting provides the early-career surgeons with an opportunity to practice a simulation surgery on a silicone-molded model of congenital heart disease. The surgical simulation models are the state-of-the-art replicas of various congenital heart diseases produced through 3D modeling of the patients’ CT or MRI images, prototyping with 3D printing and silicone molding of final models. 

There will be 9 sessions with 2 spots for each session during the Congress and the interested surgeons need to register for a spot 6 weeks in advance. 

The Organizers will provide a simulation model of the attendee’s choice mounted on a chest wall – operating table simulator, basic surgical instrument sets, surgical lights and consumables including needles, threads and patches. The attendees are asked to bring their own equipment such as loupes and special scissors of their preference. The Organizers will accept the early-career surgeons who are accompanied by their own supervisors or assistants for surgical assistance and instructions. The Organizers will also arrange experienced surgical proctors for high level teaching throughout each session. The HOST-CHS sessions will showcase the most advanced technology for surgical simulation of various congenital heart surgical procedures.

List of Models

Procedure / Pathology

1. VSD closure / Perimembranous VSD

2. VSD closure / Doubly-committed VSD

3. AVSD repair / Complete AVSD

4. TOF repair / TOF requiring transannular RVOT reconstruction

5. TOF repair / TOR requiring pulmonary valve-saving procedure

6. AVSD-TOF repair / Complete AVSD with TOF

7. Arterial switch operation / TGA with coronary artery pattern 1LCx2R

8. Arterial switch operation / TGA with coronary artery pattern 1L2RCx

9. DORV repair / DORV with subaortic VSD

10. DORV repair / DORV with remote VSD bafflable to aorta

11. DORV repair with arterial switch operation / DORV with subpulmonary VSD

12. Truncus arteriosus repair / Truncus arteriosus Type II

13. Supravalvar aortic stenosis repair / Supravalvar aortic stenosis

14. Supravalvar AS and PA stenosis repair / Supravalvar aortic stenosis and branch PS stenosis

15. Double switch operation / CCTGA with small VSD

16. Senning-Rastelli or Nikaido procedure / CCTGA with VSD and severe LVOT obstruction

17. BT shunt / Tricuspid atresia with pulmonary atresia

18. Coarctation repair, end-to-side anastomosis / Coarctation of aorta with mild tubular hypoplasia

19. Coarctation repair, patch aortoplasty / Coarctation of aorta with severe tubular hypoplasia

20. Norwood-Sano operation / Hypoplastic left heart syndrome

21. DKS-aortic arch reconstruction / Double inlet LV with TGA and aortic arch hypoplasia

22. Aortic arch reconstruction with VSD closure / Interrupted aortic arch type B with VSD

23. Ross operation / Bicuspid aortic valve stenosis

24. Konno operation / Muscular tunnel narrowing of LV outflow tract

25. Ross-Konno operation / Hypoplastic aortic valve stenosis