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Devices and methods for port-access multivessel coronary artery bypass surgery

  • US 6,478,029 B1
  • Filed: 08/05/2000
  • Issued: 11/12/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/22/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of contacting tissue during open or closed chest cardiac surgery comprising:

  • accessing a surface of the heart;

    positioning a first member having at least one primary suction port on the surface of the heart;

    coupling a first suction source to any of said at least one primary suction port of the first member;

    creating a suction with the first suction source, the created suction then communicated to any primary suction port;

    controlling the vacuum pressure of said first suction source by limiting the vacuum pressure to a pressure that avoids tissue damage;

    grasping the surface of the heart with the suction in any primary suction port; and

    fixing the first member to a stationary object.

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