Gino Marcantonio has two things to be thankful for that helped save his life when he collapsed from a heart attack on Jan. 21 in his mother’s house. One is technology: Hartford Hospital’s ECMO on the ...

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 ...

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

There are now about a half million open heart surgeries in the United States every year. As of three weeks ago, KIRO Radio’s Dave Ross is one of those heart surgery patients. Dave is still recovering ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA designated the recall of Getinge’s heart-lung machine emergency drive as class I, the most serious type.

Open heart surgery is a way to treat heart disease. To do it, your doctor opens your chest wall, cuts through your sternum, and spreads your ribs to get access to the heart. Open heart surgery is ...

THIS IS STILL HIGH, BUT LOWER THAN THE PREVIOUS FEW WEEKS, AND THEYTI SLL MAKE UP 21% OF TOTAL STATE CASES. A NEW MEXICO BABY HAS BECOME A MEDICAL FIRST. 13 MONTH OLD MATTEO BACA IS THE FIRST BABY IN ...