Establishing a robotic coronary artery bypass surgery program: a narrative review

Abstract

Background and Objective: Robotic coronary artery bypass surgery is an established procedure for treatment of coronary artery disease. The goal of this manuscript is to provide an overview on how to build a successful robotic coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery program and analyze its learning curve.Methods: We performed a narrative review of the current medical literature comparing the robotic CABG survival rate. English literature published by January 30 th , 2021 were searched in PubMed/MEDLINE, Embase, SciELO, LILACS, CCTR/CENTRAL and Google Scholar.