Dr. John Gibbon invented the heart-lung machine and used it to perform the world’s first successful open-heart surgery on May 6, 1953. Dr. John Gibbon was a researcher and surgeon at Jefferson Medical ...

Over the past century, heart operations that once were unthinkable have become commonplace. Thousands of times a day, surgeons graft arteries, fix structural defects or transplant entire hearts.

Richard N. Sarns was a machinist from Mount Clemens, Mich., who attended the local high school in 1944, spent some time in the Navy, studied at the Lawrence Institute of Technology, worked for the ...

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