Product Description
Historian Daniel J. Boorstin has said, "Trying to plan for the future without a sense of the past is like trying to plant cut flowers." This reissue of Near Misses in Cardiac Surgery, endorsed by today's experts and with a new preface by Denton A. Cooley, M.D., Surgeon-in-Chief, Texas Heart Institute, is especially timely in this era of transition to interventional and hybrid procedures. No matter what the technical advances are, the same principles that facilitate successful outcomes in surgery (teamwork, communication, vigilance, simplicity and standardization of techniques, anticipation of the next step) will apply equally to today's hybrid procedures and to those who perform them. A best-seller in its field when first issued, Near Misses in Cardiac Surgery has since become a resource for the Cardiothoracic Surgery Network's safety reporting system and has become the template used by CTSNet as a teaching tool for the anonymous reporting of near-disasters in the field by cardiac surgeons from around the world. Written in the second person present tense so that the reader becomes the surgeon on the spot, this reissue of Near Misses in Cardiac Surgery, although it reads like a medical thriller, is really a textbook of cardiac surgical complications, their management, and prevention. With its cogent analyses, discussions, and pertinent references, Near Misses in Cardiac Surgery will introduce a new generation of cardiac surgical residents and fellows, as well as more experienced surgeons, cardiologists, interventionalists, anesthesiologists, medical students, and nurses, to principles that are as timeless as they are essential.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 3 reviews)

Excellent revision for trainee cardiac surgeons by Darshan Reddy (Durban, South Africa)

5 Stars
June 13, 2009
An extremely informative and engaging read. The author's style and rhetoric add to the atmosphere of being the primary cardiac surgeon facing a new challenge on each page, and subsequently working toward a solution in a step-wise and logical manner. I would highly recommend this book to trainee surgeons who are revising for their final examinations and those about to embark on a career in the cardiac operating room.

Must Read by Andre Philidor (Los Angeles, CA USA)

5 Stars
January 30, 2008
Every surgeon, perhaps every doctor should read this book. It will scare the daylights out of lay people, and surgeons will realize their worst fears are just a narrow margin away from reality. The bain of modern medical and surgical practice to-day are the HMO's and "Managed Care". When one ruling stated the pre-op evaluation by a medical practitioner sufficed and would not permit a pre-op visit to a member of the surgical team, cardiac bypass surgery proceeded, the chest was opened, and the second team responsible for harvesting a donor vein from the leg found it was not possible as the veins had been stripped in a prior operation for varicose veins. After retiring from my practice of orthopaedic surgery, I had a recurring nightmare. Our hospital, non-profit for its' 75 year existence, was sold to a profit-making corporation. In my dream, I was in the operating room in the midst of a total hip replacement surgery. The head of the femur had been removed, the femoral shaft reamed and prepared to receive the implants. I asked the OR nurse for the total hip components and was annoyed when she handed me implants for a total knee replacement. "NO, NO!", I said. "This is a THR. Give me the hip implants!!!" The nurse replied, "Administration says we can't have any more hip components until we use up all the surplus knee implants." It took two to three years before this nightmare became a joke that no longer awakened me in a cold sweat. Yes, a joke, but all too close to the reality medical practitioners face to-day. Cardiac surgeon Myles Lee, M.D. does a superb job reporting "Near Misses" in the operating room when life and death hung in the balance. I shuddered with him through every case. Well worth the read. andre645

A sensible and helpful advice for all cardiac anesthetists

4 Stars
March 25, 2000
A book which is a pure delight for the clinician. The joy of this book is that the problems are not easy and the solutions are not obvious. What this little gem of a book can do is to help anesthesiologists to mentally prepare for the next "near-misses" in cardiac anesthesia.

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