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22-09-2023 | Heart Surgery | Editorial

Wire-skills for cardiac surgeons? — No, with a capital ‘N’

Author: Om Prakash Yadava

Published in: Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery | Issue 6/2023

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What started as a kerfuffle, a kind of whispering mutter, in the back rows of conferences has now grown into a loud chorus. Wire-skills for cardiac surgeons has in fact become a war cry. I know this editorial will stir an hornet’s nest, but then isn’t this what the editorials are meant to do — stimulate the lazy and laid-back intelligentsia to cogitate and join cognitive exercises on burning and contemporary issues confronting our profession. I indeed will be delighted if some colleagues were to riposte, or even remonstrate, because that is precisely my intent. Hope it does not remain an unfulfilled wish. …

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Title: Wire-skills for cardiac surgeons? — No, with a capital ‘N’
Author: Om Prakash Yadava
Publication date: 22-09-2023
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Keywords: Heart Surgery
Heart Surgery
Published in: Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery / Issue 6/2023
Print ISSN: 0970-9134
Electronic ISSN: 0973-7723
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12055-023-01610-8

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