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Anesthesiol Clin North America · Sep 2003
Review Comparative StudyOff-pump coronary surgery: how do the anesthetic considerations differ?
- Jack S Shanewise and James G Ramsay.
- Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, Emory University School of Medicine, 1364 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. jack_shanewise@emory.org
- Anesthesiol Clin North America. 2003 Sep 1; 21 (3): 613-23, x.
AbstractIn recent years, there has been much interest in performing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery without the aid of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). Initial efforts focused on "minimally invasive" direct coronary artery bypass, wherein the left anterior descending artery is bypassed with an in situ left internal mammary artery graft through a small left anterior thoracotomy. A more widely adopted approach however, is off-pump CABG (OPCAB), in which CABG surgery is performed on one or more vessels through the usual median sternotomy approach without the aid of CPB. This article reviews the differences in the anesthetic considerations of OPCAB compared to conventional CABG using CPB.
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