Minimally Invasive Incision At the Bangkok Heart Hospital, we are no longer making one-foot long incision and spreading ten inches wide, like the old day surgery. We do not need a big opening. With less invasive approach, the less pain occurred after surgery. Long term sternal discomfort from chest wall stretches; nerve and soft tissue damages are nearly eliminated with small incision. Avoiding the use of the leg incision allows the patients to get up and mobilize much sooner the after. Also 3 short (2 cm. long) skip incisions in the forearm used to harvest the radial artery; instead of a full forearm length incision, helping to eliminate the arm pain.

Its overall patient benefits include shorter hospital stay, less post-operative pain, less risk of infection, less blood loss and transfusions, less scarring and improved cosmesis, faster recovery and rapid return to normal daily activities.

All of these techniques, as far as we are concerned, will provide ones who need coronary artery bypass graft surgery the best operative approaches which are available at our hospital to date.