MEDICAL GRAND ROUNDS - MAY 8 - FAIRCHILD - 8:30a.m.
For about 5 years, a technique for using fiberoptic vision to guide working instruments through thorascopic incisions in the chest wall has evolved from an exciting idea to a big business - right here at Stanford.
FRED ST. GOAR - one of our emeritus residents and cardiology fellows, has been the principal cardiologist of the group. We assume that he has calmed and guided the energetic surgeons through research and development of these techniques. . . perhaps he'll tell us.
What he will tell us is the history and evolution of the techniques from animals to man, the physiology, the costs, the savings, the indications, and the complications of MINIMALLY INVASIVE CARDIAC SURGERY.
Preview by Edward D. Harris, Jr., M.D.