A heart-lung machine is a piece of medical equipment that temporarily takes over the work of the heart and lungs, circulating ...

An Australian man has become the first person in the world to leave hospital with a total artificial heart implant. The ...

Six symmetrically arranged suction connections ensure the reservoir is well positioned at the heart-lung machine. The reservoir is available in two versions: standard (VHK 2000) or vacuum tight ...

The health-care worker on call who operates the heart-lung machine during surgeries, a perfusionist, was attending to another emergency and a replacement couldn’t be found. “My blood type and ...

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.

An 11-month-old baby born with a life-threatening hole in his heart was saved by a cutting-edge hybrid procedure performed at ...