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heart-lung machineApparatus used during heart surgery to take over the functions of the heart and the lungs temporarily. It has a pump to circulate the blood around the body and is able to add oxygen to the blood and remove carbon dioxide from it. A heart-lung machine was first used for open-heart surgery in the USA in 1953. |
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| We were then at a point where we needed another 20 or 30 minutes to get off the heart-lung machine and have the work on the heart completed. Unlike a normal heart operation, robotic surgery doesn't stop the heart and divert blood to a heart-lung machine. SAN BERNARDINO - A coroner said Sunday that a teen-age snowboarder who spent six days in the snowy wilderness only to die while on a heart-lung machine likely would have died anyway due to numerous medical complications. |
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