Coronary artery bypass graft patency: Residents versus attending surgeons

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 482-488

  Bakaeen, Faisal G ^a,b   Sethi, Gulshan ^c   Wagner, Todd H ^d   Kelly, Rosemary ^e   Lee, Kelvin ^d   Upadhyay, Anjali ^d   Thai, Hoang ^f   Juneman, Elizabeth ^f   Goldman, Steven ^f   Holman, William L ^g  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^e UNIV OF MINNESOTA HOSP AND CLINIC   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^g Kentucky   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA CLAMPING; ASCENDING AORTA; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COLLOID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CRYOPRECIPITATE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MORBIDITY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIAL ARTERY; REOPERATION; RESIDENT; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVASCULARIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; STROKE; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; RADIAL ARTERY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 84864263475     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.04.039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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