The Annual Meeting in SATS, is an annual conference hosted by one of the Nordic countries, being a part of the Scandinavian Association of Thoracic Surgery. From 2009 to 2023, the conference was held as a joint meeting together with the Scandinavian Association for Extracorporeal Technology (SCANSECT) and the Scandinavian Association of Thoracic Nurses (SATNU) as the Joint Scandinavian Conference in Cardiothoracic Surgery.