You wouldn’t think you could live when both your heart and lungs are failing, but there is technology that makes it possible.

Liddell's husband Stephen claims a delay by medics starved his wife's brain of oxygen at a Brighton hospital and led to her ...

At the 35th annual Extracorporeal Life Support Services (ELSO) conference, Rhode Island and Hasbro Children's Hospitals were ...

A heart-lung machine is a piece of medical equipment that temporarily takes over the work of the heart and lungs, circulating oxygenated blood throughout the body. Also called a cardiopulmonary bypass ...

Debbie Hillwig was facing her second heart surgery in seven years. The first surgery to replace her aortic valve required ...

have developed a world-first animal model to understand how cardiac surgery requiring the use of a heart-lung machine causes injury to the kidneys. By continuously monitoring kidney health of ...

bypass grafts and through small chest incisions without stopping the heart or using a heart-lung machine, which eliminates stroke risks and other complications and reduces postoperative recovery ...

Both open heart surgery and bypass are among the most popular and effective treatments for most heart diseases and conditions. According to doctors, while both have their own applications and ...

Learn to distinguish life-threatening heart attack signs from less serious causes of chest pain, and discover when you should ...