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 year was 1975, the place Sydney. Steven Spielberg's Jaws was terrifying movie goers in cinemas, local rock band AC/DC had released its debut album and then-29-year-old John Ross had double bypass ...

It's long been documented that women have a slimmer chance of surviving heart bypass surgery compared to men, and researchers believe that they now know why. Women tend to be more vulnerable to blood ...

Miranda Fleishhacker, CCP, is a Certified Clinical Perfusionist specializing in the operation and management of heart-lung bypass machines during open-heart surgery and other complex cardiovascular ...

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 ...

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.