Los Angeles Times

Pumps are better for heart bypass surgery

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Sometimes the old ways are better. Historically, surgeons performing ...
WHYY

A Philadelphia surgeon’s invention and historic open-heart operation is celebrated 70 years later

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 ...
KRQE Blogs

University of New Mexico hospital rolling out heart-lung bypass machine

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 ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Bypass is better the old way Using heart-lung machine safer, more successful, study finds.

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Heart bypass surgery was once daunting, now it is 'boringly routine'

John Ross may be Australia's longest surviving double bypass patient. Here's how has the cardiac operation has evolved over the past 50 years.