As surgery on the body’s most vital organs, the brain and heart, has become more daring and more effective, it has also become more complex. Each new mechanical or electronic aid to the surgeon’s ...

A local hospital is touting a new kind of open heart surgery. A local hospital is touting a new kind of open heart surgery. Levers and switches will replace scalpels in a hybrid operating room that's ...

The operating room (OR) can be a mysterious place. It has long been a relatively hidden medical environment, where the only people who know what happens in it are the on-duty medics. However, new ...

Pediatric anesthesiologist Doctor Erin Gottlieb, right, and nurse anesthetist Connor Larson monitor a patient during a pediatric heart surgery at Dell Children's Medical Center Wednesday, Feb. 19, ...

Mark Strand, a married father of three from Nokesville, Virginia, said he knew something was wrong when he went in for testing. "I was having daily fevers and low-level fevers, not super high," he ...

Upper St. Clair students learn from a member of Allegheny General Hospital’s surgery team while surgeons perform open heart surgery, viewable up close on the screen. Dr. George Magovern, who pushed ...

Here are 100 benchmarks and statistics for ambulatory surgery centers based on reports from Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, Ambulatory Surgical Centers of America, Ambulatory ...

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 ...

The sound of Dr. Michael Reardon’s cellphone filled his 14th-floor corner office at Houston Methodist Hospital, interrupting his small talk with Jesse Shinault, a 71-year-old Louisiana man anxiously ...

As Korea prepares to enforce a new Nursing Act, veteran perfusionists who help stop and restart hearts during surgery face legal uncertainty, putting the future of critical cardiac operations and ...