Complications of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Subtitle: Avoidance and Treatment
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: February 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780879934279
Subjects: Cardiothoracic surgery; Surgery - Vascular; Medical; adverse effects; Clinical Chemistry; Medical / Nursing; Surgery - Thoracic; Surgery - General; Cardiology; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM_SURGERY; Medical / Surgery / Vascular; SURGERY_COMPLICATIONS AND SEQUELAE; Chest; Thoracic Surgical Procedures; Complications; Heart; Surgery
First sentence: The history of thoracic incisions dates to the Hippocratic era when trephination empyema cavities was first reported.