title: Cotton gloves: useful aids to hold the heart during coronary artery operation.
abstract: A technique using cotton gloves to lift the heart up out of the pericardial cavity is described. The fingers can be used to widen the arteriotomy and to blot blood or cardioplegia solution in the arteriotomy.
mesh_terms: D003020:Clothing / Q000592:standards*; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods*; D006324:Heart Arrest, Induced; D006801:Humans