Cardiopulmonary bypass is a surgical procedure that uses a machine to perform the functions of the heart and lungs. It enables a surgeon to open and repair the heart without interrupting its essential ...

Purpose: Several aspects of the systemic inflammatory response to coronary artery bypass graft surgery are described.Summary. The inflammatory response is a fundamental biological protective mechanism ...

There was a time in the 1920s when it was considered absurd to work on the human heart. By the time Russell M. Nelson, M.D., attended medical school at the University of Utah, little progress had been ...

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 ...

A coronary artery bypass is one of several types of open-heart surgeries, which are major medical procedures. Open-heart surgery is a group of procedures that involve cutting through the breastbone to ...

When covid-19 patients get so sick that ventilators can no longer keep them alive, doctors have one last-ditch "Hail Mary" option. It's called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, and it's a ...

Dr. Lamas, a contributing Opinion writer, is a pulmonary and critical-care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Nov. 22, 2022 Francia Bolivar Henry was going to be the miracle patient.