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According to Wikipedia, the “coronary artery bypass surgery, also coronary bypass graft surgery, and colloquially heart bypass or bypass surgery is a surgical procedure performed to relieve angina and reduce the risk of death from coronary artery disease. […] This surgery is usually performed with the heart stopped, necessitating the usage of cardiopulmonary bypass; techniques are available to perform CABG on a beating heart, so called ‘off-pump’ surgery”.

The technology has gone so far that stopping the functions of the heart during such a surgery isn’t necessary anymore. How come? Well, thanks to the Waseda University from Japan, that came up with a robot that is designed to take care of this problem.



The surgical robot can perform the coronary bypass without the need of stopping the heart from functioning as it usually does. This means, in other words, that the robot can perform the surgery while the heart is beating. More than that, cracking open the patient’s chest which is normally involved in such situations won’t be compulsory from now on.

The robot is very precise, as it should be, if you think about it, so it performs the operation with a millimeters-long accuracy. However, irrespective of the advantages brought by the surgical robot that is able to remove the coronary artery bypass complications, there’s an obstacle very hard to obviate, and it consists of the costs implied by the acquisition of the robot (the price, to be more precise) and by the maintenance. However, there’s no doubt about the fact that scientists should spare no effort in order to implement such an innovation that will reduce the scars that usually remain on a patient’s body after a surgery.

(Source: Dvice)