The full history of heart-lung bypass dates back to at least the late 1800s, when German scientists learned how to infuse blood with oxygen by passing it through a membrane. The modern story might ...

Gino Marcantonio has two things to be thankful for that helped save his life when he collapsed from a heart attack on Jan. 21 in his mother’s house. One is technology: Hartford Hospital’s ECMO on the ...

Before heart-lung machines were available, some early heart operations were made possible just by cooling patients, which gave surgeons a brief window to operate. All the pieces of the puzzle started ...