Left-handed surgical instruments – a guide for cardiac surgeons

For ease of use and to aid precision, left-handed instruments are invaluable to the left-handed surgeon. Although they exist, they are not available in many surgical centres. As a result, most operating theatre staff (including many left-handers) have little knowledge of their value or even applicat...

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Autores principales: Burdett, Clare, Theakston, Maureen, Dunning, Joel, Goodwin, Andrew, Kendall, Simon William Henry
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4992330/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27542837
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-016-0497-9
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description For ease of use and to aid precision, left-handed instruments are invaluable to the left-handed surgeon. Although they exist, they are not available in many surgical centres. As a result, most operating theatre staff (including many left-handers) have little knowledge of their value or even application. With specific reference to cardiac surgery, this article addresses the ways in which they differ, why they are needed and what is required - with tips on use. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13019-016-0497-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-49923302016-08-21 Left-handed surgical instruments – a guide for cardiac surgeons Burdett, Clare Theakston, Maureen Dunning, Joel Goodwin, Andrew Kendall, Simon William Henry J Cardiothorac Surg Review For ease of use and to aid precision, left-handed instruments are invaluable to the left-handed surgeon. Although they exist, they are not available in many surgical centres. As a result, most operating theatre staff (including many left-handers) have little knowledge of their value or even application. With specific reference to cardiac surgery, this article addresses the ways in which they differ, why they are needed and what is required - with tips on use. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13019-016-0497-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2016-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4992330/ /pubmed/27542837 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-016-0497-9 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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