JTCS KCI
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Personal Folders
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Permission Requests
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Al-Ebrahim, K. E.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Al-Ebrahim, K. E.
Related Collections
Right arrow Cardiac - other

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2008;136:1394
© 2008 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Challenges of small cardiac units

Khaled E. Al-Ebrahim, MbbCh, FRCSC

Division of Cardiac Surgery, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Department of Surgery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

To the Editor:

We read with interest the recent articles by Shahian and Normand1Go and Carey and colleagues2Go and would like to shed some light on the current practice of small cardiac units in the Middle East and third world countries. Numerous cardiac care units are located in several hospitals throughout a single city, and approximately 100 open surgeries are performed each year in these units. Many hospital administrations are racing and competing with . . . [Full Text of this Article]






HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
ANN THORAC SURG ASIAN CARDIOVASC THORAC ANN EUR J CARDIOTHORAC SURG
J THORAC CARDIOVASC SURG ICVTS ALL CTSNet JOURNALS
Copyright © 2008 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery.