Optimal Strategy for High Risk Coronary Patients: Off Bypass

Umberto Benedetto of the Bristol Heart Institute in the UK presents a discussion on the benefits of off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) for high risk patients, and presents long-term and short-term outcomes data for on-pump versus off-pump CABG.

This presentation was originally given during the SCTS Ionescu University program at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland. This content is published with the permission of SCTS. Please click here for more information on SCTS educational programs.

• Alan Bryan begins this debate by presenting the argument for conventional bypass here.
• Robert Kiaii presents the argument for hybrid revascularization here.