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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2008;135:468
© 2008 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery
Letter to the Editor |
Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
| The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below. |
We appreciate the attention paid by Kappert, Stehr, and Matschke to our article concerning the elimination of daily routine chest radiographs in post–cardiothoracic surgery patients.1
They raised several issues, which we would like to address point by point.
First, it may seem surprising that the ethics committee deemed it unnecessary to obtain informed consent when abolishing a daily routine strategy.
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