A new live animal training model for off-pump coronary bypass surgery.
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.
Zenati
Marco A
MA
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. zenatim@msx.upmc.edu
Bonanomi
Gianluca
G
Kostov
Dean
D
Svanidze
Oleg
O
D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical; D000818:Animals; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000193:education*; D002983:Clinical Competence; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D012371:Robotics / Q000379:methods; D013552:Swine