Dr. Marc Gerdish - Options for Sternal Closure and Prevention of Wound Infection ~ AATS 2018

Presented at the American Association for Thoracic Surgeons, 2018, San Diego, CA, USA.
The ERAS Cardiac Surgery mission is to optimize perioperative care of cardiac surgical patients through collaborative discovery, analysis, expert consensus, and dissemination of best practices.
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Marc Gerdisch, MD
St. Francis Heart Center
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Marc W. Gerdisch, MD
St. Francis Heart Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Marc W. Gerdisch, M.D., is chief of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery at the Franciscan St. Francis Heart Center, a partner of Cardiac Surgery Associates, the largest private cardiac surgery group in the nation and the surgical director of the Heart Valve Center and Atrial Fibrillation Center at Franciscan St. Francis Health . Dr. Gerdisch is also assistant professor of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery at the Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago.

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Stainless steel wire as a closure device is 30 years old? Good gravy doc, when they cracked my Mom's chest in 1958 they used stainless steel wire to close the sternum. From a patient looking at a sternotomy in a few weeks, this is exciting stuff. Will definitely discuss the availability of plates as a closure device with my surgeon.

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After what i have learned going throigh bypass surgery. Personal experience and research while healing. I am astonished that the majority of surgeons still use sternal wires.