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Background. Majority of the active cardiac surgical centers in India are still collecting the patient related data in a free flow manner. If the same information is collected in a structured manner, it is helpful in improving quality care of the patient, Resident training, Medical audit, and generation of new knowledge. Structured information is essential to computerize the data which will be useful for rapid analysis and for quick comparisons with published data. This type of format is mandatory to merge individual institutional data with National and International cardiac surgical databases.Methods. A new format has been designed to collect the patient related information based on diseases and procedures. Compatible software (Dusk Data) distributed to various cardiac surgical centers in India for data entry and analysis.Results. Several Cardiac surgical centers are collecting the data in this format. 10 out of 40 cardiac surgical centers are collecting the data in this format.Conclusions. This Paper describes customized data collection forms for CABG, Heart Valve diseases, and common Congenital Heart diseases wider participation is urged for a meaningful National Cardiothoracic surgical registry. (Ind J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, 2001; 17: 155-219)

Background Lichenstein first established normothormic cardio pulmonary bypass as safe and effective method. We have been using normothromic CPB in all case including infants and neonates. The safety and efficacy in 653 congenital heart disease cases were retrospectively analyzed. Materials and methods From

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