heart-lung machine

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heart-lung machine

An apparatus through which the blood is temporarily diverted, especially during heart surgery, to oxygenate it and pump it throughout the body.

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We were then at a point where we needed another 20 or 30 minutes to get off the heart-lung machine and have the work on the heart completed.

Putting the patient first by Lee, Robert W. / The New American

Unlike a normal heart operation, robotic surgery doesn't stop the heart and divert blood to a heart-lung machine.

CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING by Science World

SAN BERNARDINO - A coroner said Sunday that a teen-age snowboarder who spent six days in the snowy wilderness only to die while on a heart-lung machine likely would have died anyway due to numerous medical complications.

BRIEFLY : SNOWBOARDER'S DEATH TIED TO MANY CAUSES by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

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