The Mayo-Gibbon device was the most widely used heart-lung machine of the 1950s and early 1960s. Back in Minneapolis, cross-circulation was abandoned. University of Minnesota surgery instructor Dr.

The number of heart and lung transplants could quadruple thanks to a "reanimation" machine used in a pioneering operation, a hospital says. The device, developed at Royal Papworth Hospital in ...

For most of history, the human heart has been regarded as a forbidden organ too delicate to tamper with. It might have remained so, were it not for World War II. Military doctors, facing injury ...

Completing these procedures at the same time saves you from undergoing additional surgery. Healthy arteries are like hollow pipes ... During most open-heart surgeries it is necessary to connect you to ...

and my body and brain were chilled down to about 45 degrees to prevent brain damage from lack of oxygen until they could get the heart-lung machine pumping," he wrote. Now, Dennett has a new aorta and ...

The medical team, led by Dr. Sujith Velayudhan Indira, Senior Consultant in Cardiothoracic Surgery, included Dr. Sreenath, ...

However, despite the association, the team found that patients with lung disease were less likely to receive heart bypass surgery or angioplasty. First author Dr Paul Carter, part of the ACALM Study ...

In Minneapolis he began helping researchers who were working on a heart-lung machine, and soon switched his specialty from general surgery to cardiology and cardiothoracic (heart-lung) surgery.

While in a Sydney hospital preparing for a triple heart bypass, a nurse approached former first grade grand final referee ...

"After 12 hours, Finley finally came out of surgery but he needed a heart and lung bypass machine to keep alive, and his heart function had deteriorated significantly." Melissa celebrating ...