Abstract: This invention is related to a novel passive medical device that can be used in surgery to stabilize tissue for anastomosis or other surgical work. More particularly, the tissue stabilization device and surgical arm stabilizes cardiac tissue which enables coronary artery bypass grafting surgeries to proceed while the heart is beating, or during other surgical procedures that require holding or retraction of tissue and arresting blood flow. A surgical arm comprising: (a) a first hollow link; (b) a second hollow link; (c) a hollow universal joint connecting an end of the first link with an end of the second link; (d) a support mount for the first link, the universal joint and the second link; and (e) a hollow tissue stabilizer connected to an end of a hollow link opposite to the hollow link that is proximate the support mount.