Joe Basha's PerfWeb #26 — Patient and Hospital physical - financial benefits of avoiding sternotomy. Minimally Invasive Surgery — Perfusion

Patient and Hospital physical and financial benefits of avoiding sternotomy. Median sternotomy is one of many incisions that can be made in the thorax and gives a wide view of the thoracic cavity. Other incisions which involve the sternum, providing access to the thoracic cavity include the hemisternotomy (upper or lower), bilateral thoracosternotomy (clamshell), thoracosternotomy (hemi clamshell) and modified thoracosternotomy.