This video demonstrates the insertion of postoperative temporary epicardial pacing wires. The authors detail the procedure in a step-by-step fashion, using diagrams and surgical video to illustrate key technical elements.
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Cardiac
October 2, 2018
Will await the full paper to test the titular preliminary assertion.
September 28, 2018
Patient Care and General Interest
Saturday, September 29 is World Heart Day! This year’s theme is “My Heart, Your Heart.”
September 24, 2018
The authors demonstrate a combined transaortic and transapical approach to septal myectomy for complex long-segment hypertrophy.
September 19, 2018
This comphrensive review by Spadaccio and Benedetto try to address the unanswered question: to stent or not to stent?
The conclusions underline that the higher cerebrovascular risks associated with surgery are still overcome by long term outcome.
September 11, 2018
In this Men's Journal feature, Dr. William Novick describes his beginnings in international congenital heart surgery and how the personal credo: "Screw politics, screw religion; I'm here to help" has landed him inside the operating rooms of some of the world's most hostile regions.
August 31, 2018
Patient Care and General Interest
August 17, 2018
A well-referenced, exhaustive review.
August 13, 2018
A brief readable commentary on the Robiscek technique on the occasion of a meta-analysis of an expensive alternative.
August 10, 2018
The latest instalment in the gender discordance saga, this one proferred by business/management school academics. I am not convinced that the coarse gender comparison takes into account the size discrepancy in coronary arteries and other, well-known to medical practitioners, anatomico-physiological differences of human genders.