UH Surgeon-in-Chief Co-Authors NEJM Editorial

Joseph F. Sabik III, MD, Chairman of the Department of Surgery at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and Vice President of Surgical Operations and Surgeon-in-Chief at UH, is co-author of a new editorial in The New England Journal of Medicine examining the use of cardiopulmonary bypass in coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery.

 Joseph Sabik, III, MD

Titled “Changing the Discussion about On-Pump versus Off-Pump CABG,” the article advocates for shifting the debate from which approach is “better,” to identifying which patients benefit from which procedure.