Integrated Off-Pump System for Bypass Surgery

Doctors have a choice of a vacuum or a mechanical stabilizer. An interlocking link design provides the flexibility needed to maneuver and position the system while allowing the stability required to perform the procedure. The system was developed by Guidant Corp's Cardiac Surgery Group (Cupertino, CA, USA).

"By providing physicians with a reliable and reproducible method of performing coronary artery bypass surgery on a beating heart, we are able to treat a greater number of patients with this minimally invasive therapy,” said Joseph F. Sabik, III, M.D., of the Cleveland Clinic (OH, USA). Dr. Sabik performed the first procedure using the Axius Off-Pump System at the Cardiothoracic Techniques and Technologies meeting in New Orleans (LA, USA).



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