Trends in use of off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting: Results from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database [1]
Bakaeen and colleagues have retrospectively reviewed the use of off-pump surgery among 2137841 primary isolated CABG operations in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database. They showed that off-pump procedures peaked in 2002 with 23% of CABG operations, after which it declined to 17% in 2012. In 2012, 34% of surgeons performed no off-pump operations and 86% of surgeons performed <20 off-pump operations per year. These data are important to establish the most appropriate infrastructure and resources related to off-pump CABG operations.