Beating Heart Totally Endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass

OR-Live.com, with technical assistance from Digital Media Services will present a Webcast of a Totally Endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass on a beating heart using da Vinci robotic assistance, broadcast live from Alliance Hospital on September 26, 2006 at 6 p.m. (CST). For this innovative procedure, Dr. Sudhir Srivastava, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeon at Alliance Hospital, will use da Vinci, a breakthrough robotic system designed to transcend the limitations of both open surgery and laparoscopy, expanding the surgeon's capabilities and offering patients a minimally invasive option for many complex procedures. With da Vinci surgery, patients can experience significantly less pain, less blood loss, a much quicker recovery and a faster return to normal daily activities. Dr. Srivastava has been a pioneer in minimally invasive and innovative robotic cardiac surgical techniques. He has contributed to the development of numerous techniques which are being applied by other cardiac surgeons throughout the world. Currently he has the largest number of patients who have had the da Vinci (robotic) assistance in cardiac surgery. He has done over 200 TECAB procedures through four to five fingertip size incisions, of which 186 were done on a beating heart. He has been able to perform multivessel coronary artery bypass grafting in 71 patients. Thirty patients underwent Hybrid coronary revascularization, which combined TECAB with angioplasty/stent for complete revascularization, offering the patients the best of both worlds. This beating heart TECAB experience comprises the largest case volume performed by a single surgeon in the world. Early angiographic graft patency and freedom from clinical failure of grafts is 99% during mean follow up of ten months.

Google Video | November 22, 2006

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