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Anyone who has gone through a major surgery, knows how tense the night before can be. There’s a lot of uncertainty and ...

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 ...

It's long been documented that women have a slimmer chance of surviving heart bypass surgery compared to men, and researchers believe that they now know why. Women tend to be more vulnerable to blood ...

Doing bypass surgery on a beating heart instead of using a heart-lung machine is far more likely to result in clogging of the new arteries within just a few months, a study found. Three months after ...

Miranda Fleishhacker, CCP, is a Certified Clinical Perfusionist specializing in the operation and management of heart-lung bypass machines during open-heart surgery and other complex cardiovascular ...

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 ...

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 ...

On a Tuesday morning in October 2021, Kulvinder Lall, a heart surgeon at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, began work in a brightly lit operating theatre. Lall, a slim 55-year-old, wore latex ...