Our heart surgeons perform most coronary bypasses without the use of the heart lung machine. We find that our patients have less problems being weaned from the ventilator, bleeding tends to be less and overall they are being sent home earlier.

This is a real movie clip of a surgeon sewing a vein to a heart artery while the heart stays beating. Note how the artery being sewn is barely moving.

Click on the following to view short clips of the different parts of this operation.

Opening the Chest
Placement of deep pericardial sutures
Applying the stabilizing device
Scoring the surface of the artery to be grafted
Opening the artery
Suturing the graft to the artery

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