NOUN
- a pump to maintain circulation during heart surgery; diverts blood from the heart and oxygenates it and then pumps it through the body
How To Use heart-lung machine In A Sentence
- KELLY: Well, during the procedure, in order for the surgeon to be able to operate on the patient, the patient is put on a heart-lung machine and the heart is stopped, as you heard earlier in the show, that is called cardiopulmonary bypass. CNN Transcript Sep 6, 2004
- Blood is suctioned from the surgical field directly from the heart-lung machine or from sterile drainage containers, washed and processed by a machine, and reinfused into the patient.
- Surgery in which the thoracic cavity is opened to expose the heart and the blood is recirculated and oxygenated by a heart-lung machine.
- /Ph.D. research physician, whose contributions spanned more than the G-suit, including heart catheterization, 3-D heart imaging and technology for the fingertip blood-oxygen monitor and the heart-lung machine. A Research Physician's Innovations Bore Fruit in Unexpected Ways
- Although off-pump surgery may not be suitable for every situation (it was not in my case), it may be an option for some patients who cannot tolerate the stress of the heart-lung machine.
