[Efficacy of the MIDCAB doughnut: a new instrument for immobilization and hemostasis during MIDCAB]

A new instrument for the immobilization and hemostasis of an anastomotic site during off-pump bypass is described. The instrument called "MIDCAB doughnut" was used safely and accurately in 31 patients who underwent MIDCAB without CPB. In these, the instrument was applied in 44 anastomotic sites on the beating heart (30 left anterior descending, 7 right coronary, and 7 obtuse marginal arteries). It can make an operative field motionless and bloodless without distal snaring, because of air sucked fixation of an entire circuit of the anastomotic site. There was no operative and hospital deaths. Postoperative angiography revealed a 100% patency rate of the grafts. MIDCAB doughnut can improve a quality of the anastomosis during beating bypass surgery.