Well, it was published in the NEJM today: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1206319 http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1206319 Academia moves s

Well, it was published in the NEJM today: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1206319 http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1206319 Academia moves slowly. You want to make sure that your innovation actually had a net positive effect (does the patient actually survive?), you need clearances, you need to do the write-up, the journal needs publication space; honestly, I'm surprised that it's just a year. Novel techniques are attempted every day. You don't hear about them instantaneously because a majority of them don't work.