Bypass surgery is a type of open-heart surgery. Surgeons may use several different types of bypass surgeries to repair or replace the heart. Open-heart surgery is an operation where surgeons repair or ...

FORT SMITH, Ark. — The Fort Smith Baptist Health's new portable heart and lung bypass machine is "a life-saving piece of equipment," according to Dr. Hussam Hawamdeh. The Medical Director of ...

The creation of heart-lung bypass was clearly "one of the major milestones of modern medicine," said Dr. James K. Kirklin, the former director of cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Alabama at ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LivaNova PLC (Nasdaq: LIVN), a market-leading medical technology and innovation company, today announced it received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance ...

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 ...