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Department Development
With the opening
of the new unit, by the end of 1999, we had an
understanding with the Cardiac Surgery
Department at Pittsburg University to supervise
our procedures and improve our performance.
They executed 5 visits to our department over
the following 2 years.
Each visit was for 1 week with a team of
10-12 persons varying from surgeons to
anesthetists to nurses and technician. They
performed on average 40 open-heart cases per
visit.
Complete evaluation of protocols,
procedures, and performance was revised by
this team.
We also had similar inputs from smaller
teams from Glasgow University, surgeons from
New York, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
All inputs were invaluable in the transfer
of technology and teaching all the
department personnel.
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