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21st World Congress of the World Society of Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons

A New Live Animal Training Model for Off-Pump Coronary Bypass Surgery

(#2002-90889 ... March 22, 2002)

Marco A. Zenati, MD, Gianluca Bonanomi, MD, Dean Kostov, BS, Oleg Svanidze, MD, PhD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

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.

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