Beating heart totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass

Abstract

Robotic coronary surgery has the potential advantages of decreasing surgical trauma, decreasing postoperative recovery period compared to conventional surgery, and provides surgeons the possibility to offer a competitive tool in response to the technological improvements of interventional cardiology. Since 2007, many technical issues have been solved by the new generation of robotic devices, allowing a safer, more reliable and reproducible totally endoscopic coronary bypass, on the beating heart.