Access recordings of past webinars for data managers below or visit and subscribe to the STS National Database YouTube channel.
Adult Cardiac Surgery Database
| Webinar | Date | Description | Video | Slides |
| ACSD Monthly Webinar | February 5, 2025 | ACSD Updates for 2025 | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| ACSD Quality Improvement Series | February 19, 2025 | Blood Usage Data | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| ACSD Data Manager Training Webinar | February 25, 2025 | Website Overview, FAQ Mailbox, Training Manual, Other Resources | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| ACSD Data Manager Training Webinar | March 4, 2025 | Software, Data Specifications, Risk Model Variable Chart | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| ACSD Monthly Webinar | March 5, 2025 | Signs of a Great Regional Group | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| ACSD Data Manager Training Webinar | March 11, 2025 | Case Inclusion, Selection of Index Procedure, PROC ID Chart | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| ACSD Quality Improvement Series | March 19, 2025 | Transfusion Task Force, Melissa Williams, Duke University Medical Center | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| ACSD Data Manager Training Webinar | March 20, 2025 | Data Submission (Harvest), Data Quality Report (DQR) | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| ACSD Data Manager Training Webinar | March 25, 2025 | National Report Analyses Overview, Process and Outcome Measures, STAR Ratings | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| ACSD Data Manager Training Webinar | April 1, 2025 | Helpdesk Support | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| ACSD Monthly Webinar | April 2, 2025 | Data Manager Survey | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| ACSD Data Manager Training Webinar | April 8, 2025 | IQVIA Reporting | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| ACSD Quality Improvement Series | April 16, 2025 | Translating cardiac surgery PBM guidelines into clinical practice: UVA experience, Dr. Karen Singh, UVA | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| ACSD Monthly Webinar | May 7, 2025 | Preparing for Harvest | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| ACSD Reporting Webinar | May 21, 2025 | Review of H1 2025 Reports | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| ACSD Monthly Webinar | June 4, 2025 | ACSD audit, the multi-procedural composite, thresholds for star ratings, database endpoints, quality measures, and exceptional risk | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| ACSD Quality Improvement Webinar | July 16, 2025 | STS staff wrapped up the last quality improvement series, “Decreasing Blood Usage.” STS staff kicked off the next quality improvement project, “Decreasing Postoperative Renal Failure.” | Listen to recording | View Slides |
General Thoracic Surgery Database
| Webinar | Date | Description | Video | Slides |
| GTSD Monthly Webinar | January 8, 2025 | Basic abstract guidelines and best practices for the GTSD | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| GTSD Monthly Webinar | February 12, 2025 | Educational session on coding sequence 1890-2000 and how to code when a patient experiences a blow hole | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| GTSD Quality Improvement Series | February 27, 2025 | Presentation on Readmission After Lobectomy for Lung Cancer – Not All Complications Contribute Equally by Dr. Lisa Brown, UC Davis Health Director of Research and Quality, Division of General Thoracic Surgery. | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| GTSD Monthly Webinar | March 12, 2025 | Education on the lung cancer section, case scenarios for pathological T-stage, synchronous primaries, and pathological M stage. | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| GTSD Monthly Webinar | April 9, 2025 | GTSD data manager survey | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| GTSD Quality Improvement Series | April 24, 2025 | Discussion regarding GTSD readmission rates | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| GTSD Executive Dashboard Release | April 30, 2025 | GTSD Executive Dashboard report | Listen to recording | No Slides |
| GTSD Monthly Webinar | May 14, 2025 | Data manager education for the following data variables: HistPreopMeds (690), PsychDisorder (840), ECOGScore (870), LCInvAdjStrMulti (1875), PostOpProc (3670), Pneumonia (3720), Pneumo (3800), and POChyLeakGrade (4180). | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| GTSD Quality Improvement Series | May 29, 2025 | Presentation on Readmission Rates by Kelly Rubino, MSN, RN, NI-BC, CCRN, CPHQ, at Hackensack Meridian Health | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| GTSD Monthly Webinar | June 11, 2025 | STS staff provided an update on the Fall 2025 Harvest, GTSD Analysis Overview, June Training Manual, GTSD Participant Dashboard Updates, GTSD Executive Dashboard Enhancements, GTSD Risk Adjusted Report and AQO. Ruth Raleigh, STS Consultant, GCSD, provided education on the analysis overview document, updates for Seq 1880 in the training manual, and information regarding clinical staging. | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| GTSD Monthly Webinar | July 9, 2025 | STS staff provided updates regarding the GTSD audit and AQO registration. STS GTSD consultant, Ruth Raleigh, provided a review on what cases are analyzed, bipolar exclusions and lymph node documentation. | Listen to recording | View Slides |
Congenital Heart Surgery Database
| Webinar | Date | Description | Video | Slides |
| CHSD Monthly Webinar | January 21, 2025 | Educational session on what's changed for the coming year, updates to the training manual, and a review of abstracting fundamental diagnosis. | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| CHSD Monthly Webinar | February 18, 2025 | Educational session on primary procedure, a mismatch report update, and an analysis update: Overlapping Episodes of Care. | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| CHSD Data Manager Training Webinar | March 6, 2025 | Preparing for the CHSD harvest | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| CHSD Monthly Webinar | March 18, 2025 | Educational updates on database discharge dates and PDA ligation. Updates on primary procedure determination with combo codes and tied STAT mortality scores. | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| CHSD Monthly Webinar | April 29, 2025 | CHSD data manager survey | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| CHSD Monthly Webinar | May 20, 2025 | Educational review on the difference between combination codes and procedures with multiple components, discuss case examples, and provide tips for deciphering OpNotes. | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| CHSD Monthly Webinar | June 17, 2025 | STS staff provided updates for table 18 and 19, harvest schedule, and AQO registration. STS CHSD consultants provided a review on the analysis changes and risk model. FAQ clarifications were provided for the COVID fields; heart failure, acute; and shunt, reoperation fields. | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| CHSD New Data Manager Webinar | July 15, 2025 | STS staff provided updates on AQO registration. STS CHSD consultants provided a CHSD Risk Adjusted Analysis Report Review. They provided an analysis overview and discussed risk adjusted report calculation. They discussed tables 1 & 16 and provided a benchmark operation analysis & lesion specific analysis. | Listen to recording | View Slides |
Intermacs/Pedimacs Database
| Webinar | Date | Description | Video | Slides |
| Intermacs Quality Assurance Report Overview Quarterly Webinar | January 16, 2025 | Quarterly Reports Update with Brandon Singletary | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| Intermacs User Group Webinar | January 29, 2025 | STS Updates and Open Discussion | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| Intermacs User Group Webinar | February 26, 2025 | Data Manager Survey | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| Intermacs User Group Webinar | March 26, 2026 | Quality Improvement Series-Transfer Process and Driveline Infection-Colleen Drake and Kelly McNamara-Diorio, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| Intermacs User Group Webinar | May 28, 2025 | STS Updates, AQO Planning | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| Intermacs User Group Webinar | June 25, 2025 | Database updates, reporting updates, and the agenda for AQO | Listen to recording | View Slides |
| Intermacs & Pedimacs Quarterly Reporting Webinar | July 17, 2025 | Patricia Potter, Kirklin Solutions, provides updates on AQO registration. Brandon Singletary, Kirklin Solutions, discusses the quality assurance report. | Listen to recording | View Slides |
Questions? Contact the STS National Database team.