The heart-lung device that resulted drew comparisons to a punch-card machine. The war had helped teach surgeons that, contrary to conventional wisdom of the day, it was possible to repair a heart.

The doctor will connect you to a machine that does the jobs of the heart and lungs. It’s called a heart-lung bypass machine. This machine lets the doctor stop your heart while working on the heart.

such as the heart-lung machine, to keep the patient alive. They take part in many other medical procedures in which it is necessary to artificially support or temporarily replace a patient's ...

The doctor will connect you to a machine that does the jobs of your heart and lungs. It’s called a heart-lung bypass machine. This machine lets the doctor stop your heartbeat while he or she works on ...

machine is a life support machine that takes over the function of the heart and lungs. When patients are connected to an ECMO machine, their blood is pumped via tubes to a machine that adds oxygen ...

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.

In places like Australia, where metropolitan areas are separated by an entire continent, donor hearts used to go unused simply because transplant teams couldn't get the organ to a recipient in time.

Dr. Granger addressed organ transportation time at today’s Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) in Boston. “We’ve ...