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In 1975 we had collected the largest prospective series in the world (over 40 cases) of the anesthetic management of stabbed hearts. We had successfully anesthetized over 40 cases of stabbed hearts in Durban, South Africa. All patients were stabbed within 30 min to 2 h prior to admission.
The study had taken 4 months. One Friday evening I put all the patients’ data sheets into my briefcase to review at home over the weekend. On my way home, I stopped over at the Yacht club and left the briefcase in the car. I guess you can imagine what happened.
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Brock-Utne, J.G. (2015). Case 8: An Important Lesson. In: Clinical Research. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2516-2_8
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