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.
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. zenatim@msx.upmc.edu
Marco A
MA
Zenati
Gianluca
G
Bonanomi
Dean
D
Kostov
Oleg
O
Svanidze
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