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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Country singer Mark Chesnutt underwent quadruple bypass surgery, which is done to reroute blood flow to the heart when arteries are blocked. (Frederick Breedon IV/WireImage via Getty Images) Chesnutt ...

WHO RETIRED THIS YEAR. THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS INTRODUCES A METHOD TO GIVE CARDIAC ARREST PATIENTS A BETTER CHANCE AT SURVIVAL. IT’S CALLED. IT’S FOR PATIENTS WHO MAY NOT RESPOND ...

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 ...

When the human heart stops, a race against the clock begins. Without the heart pumping blood around the body, the brain and other vital organs are starved of oxygen — and the chance of survival ...