Beating Heart Bypass Surgery
Beating heart bypass surgery refers to bypass operations performed while the patient’s heart is still beating and not connected to a heart-lung machine. This approach preserves the heart’s functional activity and helps prevent complications that might arise from stopping the heart and using a heart-lung machine to maintain blood flow to other organs. After conducting tests, analyses, and evaluations, if deemed suitable, a specialist physician decides to perform the bypass surgery on the beating heart. During the surgery, a vessel taken from another part of the body is grafted onto the heart artery, and the heart continues to beat throughout the procedure. Since the patient is not connected to a heart-lung machine, the risk of some complications in other organs post-surgery is also reduced.