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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2004;26:S86-S87
© 2004 Elsevier Science NL

Closing remarks

EACTS Symposium for the Future of Cardiac Surgery

Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre, Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK

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I think we have had a very good meeting and I'm grateful to you all for coming, and particularly to the organizers. I would like to thank Ken Kozlowski for taking everything down, and Ian Beecroft, Friedhelm Beyersdorf and Bruce Keogh, who are going to put it all together as a supplement in the Journal.

We invited 50 people to keep this small so that we could have good discussions, but if you have a party, inevitably, someone gets upset they haven't been invited. So I hope we haven't upset too many people.

We have had some very good ideas and we have bounced them around. We don't know the exact cost of this meeting, but I am sure it is going to be money well spent. We still have to decide some definite actions to take away from here. Bruce Keogh is going to do all that so that we go away from here not just saying, well, we had a good time, that was interesting, but we have action plans, and I think Bruce has got those in his head if not on paper yet.

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