A milestone in cardiovascular surgery

The plastic surgery milestone project.

The Milestone Project in plastic surgery was created to define training outcomes and measure progress as a trainee progresses from novice to expert. The Plastic Surgery Milestones represent a framework with graduated measures to ensure the learner and program faculty know the expected intermediate and long-term competencies, and can more accurately measure where an individual is on the expected...

The colon and rectal surgery milestone project.

A milestone reached?

Emergencies in cardiovascular surgery

Methods In emergency situation, preoperative patient work-up for cardio-vascular surgery is quite different from the elective setting. Since 03/2000 till 01/2012 we have analyzed a consecutive series of 12 172 cases out of which 2214 underwent emergency procedures (18.19%). The most frequent problems requiring urgent intervention were thoracic aortic aneurysms (448 cases; 20.24%); coronary arte...

A Major Milestone for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery—Global Open: Indexing and Archiving in PubMed Central

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth. and I set sail on a new adventure with the launch of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery—Global Open (PRS Global Open). 1 It was a voyage into unknown territory for some of us: PRS Global Open was one of the first open-access surgery journals in the world, and the first new academic journal for ASPS in more than half a centur...