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I met with the CTSNet staff on February 21, 2007 to finalize the formation and structure of the Adult Cardiac Surgical Portal. We hope to have the portal up within the next two weeks in time for the first phone conference schedule on March 8, 2007, 5:00pm CST.
The Adult Cardiac Editorial Board met at the San Diego Convention Center on January 27 in conjunction with the STS Meeting. A number of exciting developments were discussed both at the General Editorial Board meeting and at the Adult Cardiac Editorial Board meeting. These include introducing the concept of a “Wiki” type process to create articles on certain topics; an unveiling of a more organized and better searchable photo and video gallery, and methods to encourage the contribution of content. We hope to have the Cardiac Portal up and functional by early March.
For all who seek to submit content we are looking for simple content in the form of angiographic and echo videos, x-rays and pictures demonstrating disease processes and surgical issues. I pointed out how easy this was to do having shown a video that I created in less than half an hour, essentially taking a clip from an echocardiogram from my desktop, masking the name and then adding audio using a program called Video Edit Magic. In addition I demonstrated images that I had taken in the operating room and how I had dictated a description for my assistant to put in a word file and transmitted these to the webmasters at CTSNet for posting.
The other thing that we hope to do with the site is make it much more searchable for content based on topic and name of contributor. Please keep your eye open for these changes coming within the next two months.