CardiovascularRetraction
Aortic cross-clamp
Curved vascular clamp that fully occludes the ascending aorta.
How it is used
Isolating the heart from systemic circulation during cardioplegia.
Sources
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History
Added to the catalog on 2026-09-29.
Dates derived from the project's public version-control history on GitHub, not a live collaborative edit log.