As surgery on the body’s most vital organs, the brain and heart, has become more daring and more effective, it has also become more complex. Each new mechanical or electronic aid to the surgeon’s ...

A local hospital is touting a new kind of open heart surgery. A local hospital is touting a new kind of open heart surgery. Levers and switches will replace scalpels in a hybrid operating room that's ...

As artificial intelligence and other technologies continue to move into the medical field, a growing number of doctors are showing interest in how these innovations can transform all aspects of ...

Wyoming, Mich.-based UM Health-West and Livonia-Mich.-based Trinity Health partnered to create an open-heart surgery operating room in the Grand Rapids, Mich., area, MLive reported Oct. 13. 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 ...

Perfusion describes when fluids such as blood and lymph pass through tissue. A perfusionist is a professional who operates machinery when this process requires assistance, such as during heart surgery ...

At the Molinette Hospital of the City of Health and Science in Turin, a world-first intervention was carried out: a combined heart and liver transplant on a 32-year-old man born with a very ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — After being the largest metropolitan city in the country with only one option for open-heart surgery, Grand Rapids area patients will now have another choice for their ...

Pediatric anesthesiologist Doctor Erin Gottlieb, right, and nurse anesthetist Connor Larson monitor a patient during a pediatric heart surgery at Dell Children's Medical Center Wednesday, Feb. 19, ...

The Cardiac Centre of Excellence at Chinook Regional Hospital will alleviate much of this, and especially in emergencies, could mean the difference between life and death. The Bringing Hearts Home ...