id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-032915-r6qguo8q Paul, Saptarshi The dilemma faced by a budding cardiothoracic surgeon in India—a first hand account 2020-09-30 .txt text/plain 2408 150 60 In this article, I have tried to make young surgeons aware of what they will face during their residency tenure and also to attend to some of their worries prior to selecting cardiac surgery as a career option. As stated by Burt et al., increasing years of surgeon experience is associated with improved operative efficiency and long-term survival in valvular cardiac surgery [1] . As of 2019, the SYNTAXES (Synergy Between Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With TAXUS and Cardiac Surgery Extended Survival) trial, which is a 10-year follow-up study of the SYNTAX trial, has shown that patients with threevessel disease had a survival advantage with CABG versus PCI at 10 years. I implore all the young surgeons to observe the post operative management intently, as it has as much implications on the prognosis of the patient as the surgery itself. Influence of experience and the surgical learning curve on long-term patient outcomes in cardiac surgery ./cache/cord-032915-r6qguo8q.txt ./txt/cord-032915-r6qguo8q.txt