Open heart surgeries suspended at King George Hospital due to defunct equipment, affecting economically weaker patients.

Both patients were battling idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and secondary pulmonary hypertension — progressive and ...

Design a device that will make it possible for a human eye to remain alive and functional outside of the body. At least for a few hours. And then a few days. But the eye is a very complex organ. It is ...

Kolkata: The case of a rare and complex heart surgery on a six-month-old girl in a Kolkata hospital was published by the World Journal of Paediatric a.

Similar to open-heart surgery, individuals are temporarily placed on a heart-lung bypass machine during the operation. However, small incisions called "ports" are made to access the damaged valve ...

"A patient came in because his toe 'looked funny.' As a diabetic, my alarm bells were going off, so I had him take his shoe ...

Former UFC fighter Ben Askren recently provided an update after nearly dying four times and needing a double lung transplant.

Technology first used by the ancient Egyptians has been used to improve the safety of the heart-lung machine. The machine is used during open-heart surgery to provide oxygen and circulate blood around ...

When Valdas Bieliauskas fell into the Franklin River, it triggered an extraordinary rescue mission that pushed everyone to ...

A paramedic has called ahead to alert the hospital that Valdas urgently needs to go on a heart-lung bypass machine, called ECMO, if he is to survive. The ECMO machine warms and oxygenates his blood ...

But Deaconess Hospital didn't even have an intensive care unit at the time, much less a heart-lung bypass machine. Heiser purchased the equipment and assembled a team.

A judge’s order to take a Tennessee death row inmate to the hospital on the morning of his execution so doctors ...