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Left-handed cardiac surgery: tips from set up to closure for trainees and their trainers

There are certain obstacles which left-handed surgeons can face when training but these are not necessary and often perpetuated by a lack of knowledge. Most have been encountered and overcome at some point but unless recorded and disseminated they will have to be resolved repeatedly by each trainee...

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Autores principales: Burdett, Clare, Dunning, Joel, Goodwin, Andrew, Theakston, Maureen, Kendall, Simon
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/PMC5007814/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27580858
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-016-0523-y
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description There are certain obstacles which left-handed surgeons can face when training but these are not necessary and often perpetuated by a lack of knowledge. Most have been encountered and overcome at some point but unless recorded and disseminated they will have to be resolved repeatedly by each trainee and their trainers. This article highlights difficulties that the left-hander may encounter in cardiac surgery and gives practical operative advice for both trainees and their trainers to help overcome them.
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spelling pubmed-50078142016-09-02 Left-handed cardiac surgery: tips from set up to closure for trainees and their trainers Burdett, Clare Dunning, Joel Goodwin, Andrew Theakston, Maureen Kendall, Simon J Cardiothorac Surg Review There are certain obstacles which left-handed surgeons can face when training but these are not necessary and often perpetuated by a lack of knowledge. Most have been encountered and overcome at some point but unless recorded and disseminated they will have to be resolved repeatedly by each trainee and their trainers. This article highlights difficulties that the left-hander may encounter in cardiac surgery and gives practical operative advice for both trainees and their trainers to help overcome them. BioMed Central 2016-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5007814/ /pubmed/27580858 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-016-0523-y 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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