Over the past century, heart operations that once were unthinkable have become commonplace. Thousands of times a day, surgeons graft arteries, fix structural defects or transplant entire hearts.
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 ...
The full history of heart-lung bypass dates back to at least the late 1800s, when German scientists learned how to infuse blood with oxygen by passing it through a membrane. The modern story might ...
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