Economic Viability Does Not Equate to Standard of Care

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University, 1 Medical Center Dr, Morgantown, WV 26506. Electronic address: jeremiah.hayanga@wvumedicine.org.
• ² Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York.
• ³ Division of Cardiac Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesia, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia.