Surgical Innovation: Too Risky to Remain Unregulated?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1957-1965

  Morreim, Haavi ^a   Mack, Michael J ^b   Sade, Robert M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL CITY DALLAS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MITRAL VALVE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK REDUCTION; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX SURGERY; ETHICS; EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; INFORMED CONSENT; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PEER REVIEW; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; REOPERATION; RESEARCH ETHICS; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH; ETHICS, CLINICAL; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; PEER REVIEW; REOPERATION; SURGICAL MESH; THERAPIES, INVESTIGATIONAL;

EID: 33751215517     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.07.003     Document Type: Article

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