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Open Heart is an online only, continuously published, peer-reviewed open access medical journal covering all areas of cardiovascular medicine and surgery. The journal is an official journal of the British Cardiovascular Society. The editor-in-chief is Dr Pascal Meier, Royal Brompton Hospital (UK) and University of Geneva (Switzerland)
Although the repair was successful, the patient, 13-month-old Gregory Glidden, died 11 days later of suspected pneumonia. Lillehei and his team continued to use cross-circulation for a total of 44 open-heart operations in the following year, of which 32 patients survived.
Henry Opitek (January 6, 1911 – March 13, 1981 [1]) became the first patient to survive open heart surgery in 1952. On July 3, 1952, Opitek, a 41-year-old male suffering from shortness of breath, made medical history at Harper University Hospital in Michigan .
Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) or heart-lung machine, also called the pump or CPB pump, is a machine that temporarily takes over the function of the heart and lungs during open-heart surgery by maintaining the circulation of blood and oxygen throughout the body. [1] As such it is an extracorporeal device. CPB is operated by a perfusionist. The ...
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Floyd John Lewis (1916 – September 20, 1993) was an American surgeon who performed the first successful open heart operation, closing an atrial septal defect in a 5-year-old girl, on 2 September 1952. [1] For the next 3 years, Lewis and colleagues operated on 60 patients with atrial septal defects using hypothermia and inflow occlusion. [2]