The Satinsky clamp is the atraumatic vascular clamp used to partially occlude major blood vessels — most often the aorta during off-pump cardiac procedures, the pulmonary artery during lobectomy, and the vena cava during liver and renal surgery. It was designed in the 1940s by the American thoracic surgeon Victor P. Satinsky to allow surgeons …
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