How I Perform the Maze Procedure

How I do it: minimally invasive Cox-Maze IV procedure.

How I perform curette-assisted razor blade shave excision

Dermatology Research Centre, Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong Excision of superficial and slightly deeper cutaneous lesion can be performed by shaving the lesion using a razor blade. After induction of local anaesthesia, normal saline is injected to make the lesion bulge. A peripheral portion of the lesion is curetted for assess...

Fading magic of maze procedure Pankaj

I read with interest a recent article by Reston and Shuhaiber [1] where they have analysed the reported clinical outcome of maze-related surgical procedures for intractable atrial fibrillation (AF). I congratulate them for this excellent meta-analysis [1]. I would like to add a few comments. Maze procedure is an excellent example of a technique which was grabbed by an impatient scientific commu...

How I treat How I treat anticoagulated patients undergoing an elective procedure or surgery

The periprocedural management of patients receiving long-term oral anticoagulant therapy remains a common but difficult clinical problem, with a lack of highquality evidence to inform best practices. It is a patient’s thromboembolic risk that drives the need for an aggressive periprocedural strategy, including the use of heparin bridging therapy, to minimize time off anticoagulant therapy, whil...

How to tackle the orthopedic maze

© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the Nordic Orthopedic Federation. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) DOI 10.1080/17453674.2017.1361125 in this issue of Acta) but often fl y under the radar of clinical governance. Cognitive abilities...