Impact of Surgical Experience on Operative Mortality Following Reoperative Cardiac Surgery.

CONCLUSIONS: Standardized mortality ratios with reoperative cardiac surgery were highest early and late in a surgeon's career and lowest mid-career. As surgeons gain experience, outcomes improve through the first two career decades, then stabilize in the third decade before declining in the fourth decade. PMID: 32504601 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - June 2, 2020 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Moon MR, Henn MC, Maniar HS, Pasque MK, Melby SJ, Kachroo P, Masood MF, Itoh A, Kotkar KD, Munfakh NA, Damiano RJ Tags: Ann Thorac Surg Source Type: research