Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD Key Takeaways 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 ...

Gino Marcantonio has two things to be thankful for that helped save his life when he collapsed from a heart attack on Jan. 21 in his mother’s house. One is technology: Hartford Hospital’s ECMO on the ...

Patients requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation -- a type of heart-lung bypass therapy -- typically need extended bed rest, due to ...

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roud parents watch as 4-year-old Gavin carefully writes first his name on lined paper in marker, and then his dad’s name, Jeremy, and finally, his mom’s name, Joy. Such simple things for a family of ...

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 ...

Procedures like these are possible because medical teams can stop a patient's heart, pump their blood with a machine during surgery, and restart the repaired heart afterward. The development of that ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — Southeast Texas now has two state of the art life-saving machines. Baptist Hospital has two extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machines. ECMO is a life support system used ...

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 ...

Over the past century, heart operations that once were unthinkable have become commonplace. Thousands of times a day, ...