Complex off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery can be safely taught to cardiothoracic trainees

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 222-226

  Karagounis, Apostolos ^a   Asimakopoulos, George ^a   Niranjan, Gunaratnam ^a   Valencia, Oswaldo ^a   Chandrasekaran, Venkatachalam ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Off pump coronary artery surgery; Outcomes; Training

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEMOFILTRATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; REOPERATION; STROKE; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 33744486900     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2005.117465     Document Type: Conference Paper

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