Off Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (Medical Intelligence Unit)

This book discusses the principles, applications, benefits, and pitfalls of off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) surgery, and provides information on the surgical strategies adopted and the anesthetic management considerations for patient undergoing OPCAB surgery. Historical considerations / Raymond Cartier Cardiopulmonary bypass and inflammation / Francois Dagenais Potential benefit of OPCAB surgery / Marzia Leache and Raymond Cartier Principles of stabilization and hemodynamics in OPCAB surgery / Raymond Cartier Anesthetic management for OPCAB / Patrick Limoges, Robert Blain, and Peter Sheridan Indications and surgical strategies for OPCAB / Nicolas Derrleman and Raymond Cartier Effects of vascular-interrupting and hemostatic devices on coronary artery endothelial function in beating heart coronary artery bypass surgery / Roland G. Demaria and Louis P. Perrault Systematic OPCAB surgery for multivessel disease with the CoroNeo Cor-Vasc device / Raymond Cartier Understanding the mechanisms of hemodynamic and echocardiographic changes during OPCAB surgery / Pierre Couture ... [et al.] Cerebral complications following coronary artery bypass grafting surgery / Marzia Leache and Raymond Cartier OPCAB surgery in high risk-patients / Gengarr Apoo and Raymond Cartier Pitfalls in off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery / Nicolas Derrleman and Raymond Cartier Sutureless coronary artery bypass grafting : experimental and clinical progress / Kenton J. Zehr The future of coronary artery surgery : quo vadimus? / Ray C.-J. Chiu. The recent revival of a coronary artery bypass technique without extracorporeal assistance is a revolution in cardiovascular procedures that has occasioned much controversy. Cartier (cardiac surgery, Montreal Heart Institute) has collected these papers to optimize the technique, test its limits and to find its place in the evolution of surgery