Surgical Residents Perform Heart Surgery as Effectively as Staff Surgeons
September 30, 2008
September 30, 2008
DALLAS, Sept. 30 -- The American Heart Association issued the following news release:
Study highlights:
� Success rates, safety and long-term outcomes of heart surgery are not significantly different when performed by properly supervised surgical residents or staff surgeons.
� It is safe to include the training of residents even in complex procedures. It is critical that trainees operate because they will to be the surgeons operating on the next g . . .
Study highlights:
� Success rates, safety and long-term outcomes of heart surgery are not significantly different when performed by properly supervised surgical residents or staff surgeons.
� It is safe to include the training of residents even in complex procedures. It is critical that trainees operate because they will to be the surgeons operating on the next g . . .