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A new live animal training model for off-pump coronary bypass surgery
Marco A Zenati1, Gianluca Bonanomi, Dean Kostov
1Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. zenatim@msx.upmc.edu
The Heart Surgery Forum
|July 13, 2002
Abstract:
Training models are needed to perform accurate off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) surgery and to test evolving new technologies like minimally invasive devices and robotics. We describe a simple, effective and reproducible live animal training model to perform multiple arterial anastomoses on the beating heart that would maximize the use of available resources for training purposes.