Preliminary results with a training program for thoracoscopic atrial fibrillation therapy

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1882-1886

  Sánchez Margallo, Francisco M ^a   Díaz Güemes, Idoia ^a   Pérez, Francisco J ^a   Sánchez, Miguel A ^a   Loscertales, Beatriz ^a   Usón, Jesús ^a  

^a JESÚS USÓN MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY CENTRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cardiac surgical ablation; Microwave device; Ovine model; Thoracoscopic training; Thoracoscopy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAVA VEIN; DEVICE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; MECHANICAL PROBE; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RELIABILITY; SHEEP; SKILL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX SURGERY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BLEEDING; DIATHERMY; EDUCATION; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; DIATHERMY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MICROWAVES; MODELS, ANIMAL; PULMONARY VEINS; SHEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THORACIC SURGERY; THORACOSCOPY; VENAE CAVAE;

EID: 70349760517     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-008-0197-1     Document Type: Article

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