Dr. John Gibbon invented the heart-lung machine and used it to perform the world’s first successful open-heart surgery on May 6, 1953. Dr. John Gibbon was a researcher and surgeon at Jefferson Medical ...

Cardiopulmonary bypass is a surgical procedure that uses a machine to perform the functions of the heart and lungs. It enables a surgeon to open and repair the heart without interrupting its essential ...

Over the past century, heart operations that once were unthinkable have become commonplace. Thousands of times a day, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA designated the recall of Getinge’s heart-lung machine emergency drive as class I, the most serious type.

SAN FRANCISCO — One of the scariest parts of bypass surgery — having your heart stopped and going on a heart-lung machine while doctors fix your clogged arteries — is safe even in the elderly and ...

Infants undergoing heart surgery are connected to a heart-lung machine and given nitric oxide as an anti-inflammatory. Researchers from the Universities of Zurich and Queensland have now conducted the ...

THIS IS STILL HIGH, BUT LOWER THAN THE PREVIOUS FEW WEEKS, AND THEYTI SLL MAKE UP 21% OF TOTAL STATE CASES. A NEW MEXICO BABY HAS BECOME A MEDICAL FIRST. 13 MONTH OLD MATTEO BACA IS THE FIRST BABY IN ...