Bypass surgery safer using heart-lung pump: study
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 18:00
in Health & Medicine
BOSTON (Reuters) - Allowing the heart to keep beating during coronary bypass surgery is riskier than stopping the heart and using a heart-lung machine to keep the patient alive, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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