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Knowing Me, Knowing You: What Can We Learn From Familiar Surgical Teams?

Incision

Surgical care is the product of numerous interprofessional interactions, reflected in several key multidisciplinary teams. Less familiar teams have been associated with longer postoperative hospitalization in both cardiac and orthopedic surgery [ 12 , 13 ]. vs 10.0%), longer operative times, and a longer hospital stay.

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LEARJET ANESTHESIA – THE EARLY DAYS OF HEART TRANSPLANTATION

The Anesthesia Consultant

Norman Shumway MD PhD, a Stanford surgical professor and legend, invented the heart transplantation procedure and performed the first heart transplant in the USA on January 6, 1968 in operating room 13 of Stanford University Hospital. Upon arrival at the airport in the donor city, an ambulance transported us to the hospital.

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SERIALIZATION OF THE DOCTOR AND MR. DYLAN… CHAPTER TWO

The Anesthesia Consultant

The kid had no insight into what I did minute-to-minute in the hospital. It had been five hours since the initial skin incision. Judith Chang turned her back on the operating room table, and peeled off her surgical gloves. The surgical resident would conclude the task of sewing the skin closed. Mom is so pissed.