A heart-lung machine takes over the work of the heart and lungs during surgeries. It oxygenates and circulates blood when a person's heart or lungs can't work properly. While essential, using a ...

A patient who needed lifesaving heart surgery has become the first person ever to receive a coronary artery bypass without ...

THE DOOR FOR PEOPLE IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY WHO NEED BYPASS SURGERY, BUT ARE NOT CANDIDATES FOR AN OPEN HEART SURGERY. IT’S BEING DONE USING A ROBOT. KCRA 3’S ANAHITA JAFARI SHARES HOW THIS SURGEON ...

Anyone who has gone through a major surgery, knows how tense the night before can be. There’s a lot of uncertainty and ...

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 ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LivaNova PLC (Nasdaq: LIVN), a market-leading medical technology and innovation company, today announced it received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Country singer Mark Chesnutt underwent quadruple bypass surgery, which is done to reroute blood flow to the heart when arteries ...

Using heart-lung bypass machines with shorter circuits, for example, would limit the volume of blood-diluting solution needed to run the pump. Randomized trials to assess whether methods for ...

It's long been documented that women have a slimmer chance of surviving heart bypass surgery compared to men, and researchers believe that they now know why. Women tend to be more vulnerable to blood ...

Beating-heart compatibility: Reduces stroke risks and complications, and potentially over 50% cost reduction with a standardized, reproducible and easy-to-learn technology. EDE/UTRECHT, The ...