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Your doctor may use a vein, called the saphenous vein, from your leg. The doctor will take a vein or artery from another part of your body and use it to make a detour (or graft) around the blocked area in your artery.This is called off-pump coronary artery bypass, or OPCAB.
The procedure is done while your heart is still beating. The machine adds oxygen to your blood, moves blood through your body, and removes carbon dioxide.Īnother type of bypass surgery does not use the heart-lung bypass machine. This machine does the work of your heart and lungs while your heart is stopped for the surgery.Your heart is stopped while you are connected to this machine.Most people who have coronary bypass surgery are connected to a heart-lung bypass machine, or bypass pump. This allows your surgeon to see your heart and aorta, the main blood vessel leading from the heart to the rest of your body. Your breastbone will be separated to create an opening. Once you are unconscious, the heart surgeon will make an 8 to 10-inch (20.5 to 25.5 cm) surgical cut in the middle of your chest. You will be asleep (unconscious) and pain-free during surgery. Before your surgery, you will get general anesthesia.