[HSF] Re: Favorite cardiac surgical myths

[Ben Bidstrup]

Use of his definitions for discussing new therapies now makes it a 
little hard to work out which treatment is effective.

>BTW...Are not  Dr. Cox's categories of afib: intermittent or 
>permanent? Is that ironic, prescience, hubris, or what?  Maybe 
>clinically more real and relevant would be primary and unrecognized, 
>unlikely, likely, always and (hopefully) never again which is the 
>same as unlikely ( or unrecognized). Tea ----- Original Message ---- 
>From: "rwmfglycar at aol.com" <rwmfglycar at aol.com> To: 
>OpenHeart-L at lists.hsforum.com Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 
>11:05:16 AM Subject: Re: [HSF] Re: Favorite cardiac surgical myths 
>There are many How about these: Tricuspid insufficiency accompanying 
>left sided disease wikk get better by itself Cardiologists like this 
>one: AS with an ejection fraction of 15% is too sick for open heart 
>surgery Endocarditis must be treated with antibiotics for 6 weeks 
>before surgery Bob -----Original Message----- From: 
>prasannasimha at gmail.com To: OpenHeart-L at lists.hsforum.com Cc: 
>OpenHeart-L at hsforum.com Sent: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 11:27 PM Subject: Re: 
>[HSF] Re: Favorite cardiac surgical myths Similar thing with low 
>EF's - Low EF MR and AR can never recover !! Another myth 
>-Isoprenaline works well for Fallot's post operatively. One more 
>myth - Afib is "permanent" and then came James Cox and his Maze. And 
>one of the biggest myths - high dose "ruthless adrenaline " Prasanna 
>CSPassik at aol.com wrote: > In thinking about the so-called 
>"un-clampable" aorta, I throw out for the > member's consideration 
>something I would enjoy seeing on this list- everyone > should post 
>their favorite cardiac surgical myth- those things that we were > 
>taught were impossible but somehow we do anyway and usually get 
>away > with-sometimes with impunity. I think this would be more 
>popular than everyone's > favorite disaster-somehow our 
>psychological powers of repression makes these cases > much harder 
>to recall, but just become part of the hard-won experience file. > 
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Ben Bidstrup FRACS FRCSEd FEBCTS
Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon