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Ann Thorac Surg 2002;73:346
© 2002 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Assessing the radial artery for a coronary bypass conduit

Frank A. Baciewicz, Jr, MDa

a Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Wayne State University, School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA

To the Editor

I enjoyed the recent article by Jarvis and colleagues in the October 2000 issue of The Annals [1]. In my practice the radial artery is a conduit of choice in patients less than 65 years old who are not dialysis candidates. The patient is screened using the Allen’s test as described. If the patient has a capillary filling time of 6 seconds or less, the arm is prepared for the surgical field.

A 2.0 cm incision is made over the radial artery at the wrist, and the radial artery is dissected out. A 27-gauge needle attached to a pressure monitoring line is . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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