Dealing with Evidence!
You have probably heard about EBM (Evidence Based Medicine), and those of you who are not doctors probably presume that a lot of what we...
Just a small hole in the groin!
If one was given the choice between a small hole in the groin, compared to a great big crack down the middle of the chest, there is no...
Not splitting the chest!
The late Dr Louis Cohen was a delightful man, and an incredibly caring cardiologist with a passion for squash, who was very well known at...
Plating the rib?
Yes, why not? Every other bone that is broken in the body is internally fixed with plates and screws. I am sure the medical members of...
Closing the chest
Lets continue... The median or midline sternotomy was first studied and shown to be effective in goats in 1897. It was another 50 years...
Starting off again...
Lets start with the sternum. This dagger shaped breast bone is the most commonly fractured bone in the body - because of heart surgery....
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