Over the past century, heart operations that once were unthinkable have become commonplace. Thousands of times a day, ...

In contrast, the new device delivers blood using a pulsative flow, much like the human heart, a difference that may prevent brain-related side effects sometimes caused by cardiopulmonary bypass ...

When blood interacts with the cardiopulmonary bypass machine, several cellular and humoral pathways are activated including the complement system, the coagulation system, and the fibrinolytic system.

This can be difficult because the use of the cardiopulmonary bypass machine can stress and weaken blood platelets. "For decades, people have written in the scientific literature about this problem ...

Blood is circulated outside of the body through a machine to add oxygen to it (cardiopulmonary bypass or heart-lung machine). The heart may be cooled to slow or stop the heartbeat so that the heart is ...

The use of low frequency ventilation during cardiopulmonary bypass is feasible and safe, a new study has concluded.

State health inspectors visited the two Crozer Health hospitals a dozen times to investigate potential safety problems between February and July.

which requires a large team and time on a cardiopulmonary bypass machine. To get the surgery -- which has a more than 90% success rate -- we'd have to travel to Jasmine Clinic in Japan ...

In the EBP group, patients received treatment during the cardiopulmonary bypass with a nonselective ... to a continuous kidney replacement therapy machine. The continuous kidney replacement ...

"The machine is not a cure-all for all heart ... It was the world's first series of successful open-heart operations using cardiopulmonary bypass. "And then things exploded." ...