Single Best Answer Questions for Adult Thoracic Surgery

Shahzad G. Raja is a consultant cardiac surgeon at Harefield Hospital. He received his specialty training in cardiothoracic surgery at Glasgow University Hospitals, Harefield Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital. He performs cardiovascular surgical procedures including multiple and total arterial coronary bypass grafting, off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery, minimal access aortic valve replacement, and aortovascular surgery. He has a special interest in clinical research and quality improvement. He has published widely on all aspects of cardiac surgery. He is credited by ResearchGate with 350 peer reviewed publications and 16,182 citations and as of 2024 Google scholar reports an h-index of 42. He has a special interest in assessing the impact of off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery and arterial grafting in improving outcomes. He has contributed chapters to different cardiac surgery textbooks as well as to undergraduate and postgraduate surgery books, including books for the MRCS and FRCS(C-Th) examination. He has authored several books for FRCS Cardiothoracic Surgery examination including Single Best Answer Questions for Adult Cardiac Surgery, 250 SBAs in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Single Best Answer Questions in Cardiothoracic Surgery, and 200 Practice Question in Cardiothoracic Surgery. He is the editor of Cardiac Surgery: A Complete Guide, the first ever and only textbook of Cardiac Surgery from United Kingdom.