Abstract:
Cardiac revascularization surgery has a long history. Its results and safety are well known. Nonetheless, the long-term patency rate of certain grafts used in cardiac revascularization is non-optimal, and CABG is associated with a risk of cerebrovascular stroke due to aortic manipulation. We have developed a simple control quality protocol of the anastomosis performed in CABG, aiming to improve the long-term patency of certain grafts used in cardiac revascularization surgery and reduce the risk of cerebrovascular stroke in those patients.
Conclusion:
We have developed a simple protocol to assess the quality of the anastomosis performed in CABG, with and without extracorporeal circulation, allowing the ideal location to perform the anastomosis in the coronary artery first, and a second time to evaluate the quality of the anastomosis performed.
We hope the implementation of the control quality protocol of the anastomosis performed in CABG assures the performance of quality bypass grafts, that ensure the excellent short-term results of the cardiac revascularization surgery, and allows to increase in the long-term patency rate of certain grafts used in CABG, raising then our patients survival.
This protocol is very simple and easily reproducible, and it’s based on an easy technology simple to obtain in any hospital.
