Coronary bypass surgery is one treatment option to ... make an incision in your chest to access your heart and will use a machine to take over blood flow while your heart is temporarily stopped.

In some procedures, the heart is slowed with medicine but is still beating during the procedure. For these types of surgery, a heart-lung bypass machine is not needed. (For open-chest surgery, a heart ...

It is one of the most common congenital heart defects, which are structural problems that develop before a baby is born ... will connect you to a machine that does the jobs of your heart and lungs. It ...