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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The University of New Mexico Hospital is teaming up with Albuquerque Fire Rescue to better respond to patients suffering from cardiac arrest. The hospital says they will ...

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 ...

Seeking to bolster its development of a biocompatible graft that promises to reshape the future of cardiac bypass surgery, Medical 21, a medtech device company, today ...

Doctors at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals have successfully carried out an open-heart surgery using a newly acquired heart-lung machine for the first time, marking a significant boost to Zimbabwe’s ...

May 28 -- Undergoing a typical bypass operation today is major surgery. The surgeon opens the patient's chest and sometimes needs to stop the heart temporarily, and rely on a machine to pump the blood ...

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 ...

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 ...

The beating heart is a lively thing, dancing and pulsing in its pocket within the chest. Watching this through a small incision, Dr. Crayton Pruitt takes a deep breath and steadies his hands. He has ...