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Beating Heart Surgery
Off-pump or beating heart bypass surgery allows
surgeons to perform surgery on the heart while it is
still beating. A medication may be given to slow the
heart during surgery, but the heart keeps beating
during the procedure. This type of surgery may be an
option for patients with single-vessel disease (such
as disease of the left anterior descending artery or
right coronary artery).
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During off-pump or beating heart surgery, the
heart-lung machine is not used. The surgeon uses
advanced operating equipment to stabilize (hold)
portions of the heart and bypass the blocked artery
in a highly controlled operative environment.
Meanwhile, the rest of the heart keeps pumping and
circulating blood to the body.
This new approach is being followed in our hospital
for the past 6 years. The heart is stabilized
mechanically using specialized equipment and the
grafting is done when the heart is still beating.
Over 5000 cases have been done this way and the post
operative recovery is found to be smoother with much
fewer complications.
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