{"title":"Beating Heart Surgery: To Pump or not to Pump?","authors":"F. Reitknecht","doi":"10.3138/guthrie.70.4.128","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCAB) decreases morbidity, lowers cost, and has patency rates similar to conventional coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Indications for operative and anesthetic management and outcomes of OPCAB are reported.","PeriodicalId":83043,"journal":{"name":"The Guthrie journal of the Donald Guthrie Foundation for Medical Research","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2001-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Guthrie journal of the Donald Guthrie Foundation for Medical Research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3138/guthrie.70.4.128","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCAB) decreases morbidity, lowers cost, and has patency rates similar to conventional coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Indications for operative and anesthetic management and outcomes of OPCAB are reported.