Is it safe to train residents to perform cardiac surgery?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1043-1049

  Baskett, Roger J F ^a,b   Buth, Karen J ^a   Legaré, Jean Francois ^a   Hassan, Ansar ^a   Friesen, Camille Hancock ^a   Hirsch, Gregory M ^a   Ross, David B ^a   Sullivan, John A ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Maritime Heart Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLEEDING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART SURGERY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MORBIDITY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AORTIC DISEASES; CANADA; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0036797998     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)03679-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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