Kohei Abe, Hiroyuki Nishi, Kazuma Okamoto, Hitoshi Yokoyama, Hirokuni Arai, Hitoshi Yaku, Shuichiro Takanashi, Hirofumi Takemura, Tohru Asai, Young-Kwang Park
PURPOSE: Coronary anastomosis is the most key factor to accomplish coronary artery bypass grafting, which is one of the largest areas in cardiovascular surgery. Although we have organized on-site simulator training courses of coronary anastomosis using BEAT YOUCAN, it became difficult to continue it because of COVID-19. Therefore, we established a real-time evaluation sheet instead of an Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills (OSATS) evaluation sheet. The purposes of this study was to develop the real-time assessment system and to prove the correlation between the score obtained by the OSATS and the score obtained by the real-time evaluation system...
September 29, 2023: Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery