The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 24, 430-432, Copyright © 1977 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Intraoperative Doppler coronary artery finder
PV Moulder, MJ Teague, VJ Manuele, RA Brunswick and GR Daicoff
Time-consuming difficulty is occasionally encountered in finding coronary
arteries or previously placed vascular grafts during coronary
revascularization procedures. A catheter-tipped, continuous-wave Doppler
ultrasonic probe with simple audio output has been shown to be capable of
expediting the search for these vessels.