Joel Rosenberg, of St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center in Syracuse, recently did a heart bypass operation on an 86-year-old Central New York woman without assistance from the heart-lung machine ...

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That was true even in people 75 or older, a group most worried about going on a heart-lung machine. The second study tested the two bypass methods in 2,539 of these elderly patients in Germany.

Bypass surgery done without a heart-lung machine, known as off-pump, may provide better post-operative outcomes than on-pump bypass surgery for high-risk patients, according to new research.

About 2.7% of those receiving beating-heart surgery had died, compared with only 1.3% of those hooked up to the heart-lung machine. Overall, when deaths, strokes, heart attacks or the need for ...

Still, the study is unlikely to end the debate over use of the heart-lung machine in bypass surgery, because many doctors, even those who are skeptical of the off-pump procedure, still feel it has ...

For 26 minutes, Cecelia Bavolek's heart and lungs lay still and the blood drained from her body as she quietly made medical history 50 years ago. On May 6, 1953, the 18-year-old from Wilkes-Barre ...

The hospital says they will soon deploy a new heart-lung bypass machine mounted to an ambulance. The machine reestablishes the flow of oxygen-rich blood to the brain by taking over heart […] ...

But during beating heart bypass (also called "off-pump" bypass), doctors operate on the patient's beating heart without using a heart-lung machine. Heart bypass is done when coronary arteries ...