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Training fourth-year medical students in critical invasive skills improves subsequent patient safety
Complications after procedures performed by residents are thought to occur most often early in the first postgraduate year (PGY-1). We evaluated the number of pneumothoraces (PTXs) caused by central venous line insertion (CVLI) by two groups of PGY-1 residents in both the first 3 months of ...
May 1, 2003; The American Surgeon

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