This video is an introduction to the surgical management of aortic dissections in the 21st century. Management of aortic dissections is a complex task at hand, with good planning, coordination, diagnosis and execution in short notice, as is seen in instances often. With the diagnoses of acute dissections picking up and the numbers increasing in a rampant fashion, knowing how to manage aortic dissections in the near future is the call of every CT resident.

The speaker in the video is one among the most reputed figures in the sub-specialty of Aortic Surgery. He is a doyen in aorto-coronary surgery who has driven the field in Asia to an immeasurable distance by redefining the management of complex aortic surgery.

Dr. Bashi V. Velayudhan, MS, MCh, FACS, FIACS is Professor & Director of Cardiac Surgery at SIMS Hospital, Chennai. He is the 51st and incumbent President of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgeons.

This video is part of the lecture series of IACTS SCORE 2020 held at the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences Whitefield, Bengaluru between 7th and 8th March, 2020.

This video is part of the lecture series in Residents' Forum.