Gino Marcantonio has two things to be thankful for that helped save his life when he collapsed from a heart attack on Jan. 21 in his mother’s house. One is technology: Hartford Hospital’s ECMO on the ...

Over the past century, heart operations that once were unthinkable have become commonplace. Thousands of times a day, ...

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 ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — Southeast Texas now has two state of the art life-saving machines. Baptist Hospital has two extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machines. ECMO is a life support system used ...

The development of that process, commonly called heart-lung bypass, is a triumph of science and engineering that involved taking risks in ways that would be unthinkable today. Desperate surgeons took ...