Archive for August, 2021
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Why Do We Need a Checklist for Cardiac Surgical Cases Lasting More Than 6 Hours?
I am writing this post so that circulating nurses in the cardiac surgical OR understand the rationale behind my idea for “yet another checklist”, a proposed timeout at 6 hrs […]
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Beware of Automatic Decisions
In 1990, the Society of Thoracic Surgery developed a national cardiac surgical database as an effort to improve surgical quality. For the past 2 decades, extensive data has entered this database from […]
Robert S. Poston, MD
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