Adopting Endoscopic Radial Artery Harvesting

Dr. Igor Zivkovic is a Cardiac Surgeon and clinical teaching assistant in the CV surgery department at the Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases Dedinje in Belgrade, Serbia. At this high-volume center, more than 2,500 open heart procedures and 150 EVH/20 ERAH procedures are performed every year. Dr. Zivkovic joined the EVH team at Dedinje about two years ago and became a clinical proctor for Terumo in 2021. Since then, he has trained a number of harvesters on the endoscopic vessel harvesting technique.