machine is a life support machine that takes over the function of the heart and lungs. When patients are connected to an ECMO machine, their blood is pumped via tubes to a machine that adds oxygen ...

For most of history, the human heart has been regarded ... when a system that involved bubbling blood was perfected, that "heart-lung" machines came of age. Dr. Dennis Melrose of London further ...

Doctors rush to develop a heart-lung machine, which will take over the vital functions of the body, hence allowing a surgeon an unlimited amount of time to operate. The first successful machine ...

The beginnings The full history of heart-lung bypass dates ... body's metabolic rate and decrease its need for oxygen. Before heart-lung machines were available, some early heart operations ...