Bypass surgery safer with heart-lung pump: study
Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 17:28
in Health & Medicine
Doing bypass surgery while the heart is still beating was thought to result in fewer complications but a new U.S. study suggests going on a heart-lung machine is actually the safer approach.
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