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Quality and Value in the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit

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Difficult Decisions in Cardiothoracic Critical Care Surgery

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Quality and value is dependent on structure and processes. In the cardiothoracic critical care unit, structure relates to how the team is organized and processes relate to how the team does its work. Herein, the review of pertinent literature is described and the results succinctly described.

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  1. Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC, USA

    Kevin Lobdell & Joe Mishkin

  2. Department of Surgery, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

    Rakesh C. Arora & Rohan Mukund Sanjanwala

  3. Cardiac Sciences Program, St. Boniface Hospital, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

    Rakesh C. Arora

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Appendix 1

Examples of the surgeon, anesthesia and intensivist handover checklist from the St. Boniface Hospital, Winnipeg, Canada

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Appendix 2

Examples of goal sheets from the Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC

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Lobdell, K., Mishkin, J., Arora, R.C., Sanjanwala, R.M. (2019). Quality and Value in the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit. In: Lonchyna, V. (eds) Difficult Decisions in Cardiothoracic Critical Care Surgery. Difficult Decisions in Surgery: An Evidence-Based Approach. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04146-5_2

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