Custom machine kept man alive without lungs for 48 hours

For two days, the patient lived as a human being with no lungs, stabilized by a machine that breathed and buffered his ...
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Two days without lungs: How doctors pulled off a miracle

Sometimes, a simple illness can become life-threatening in ways most people cannot imagine.
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How Surgeons Used "Breast Implants" to Keep a Heart Beating Without Lungs for 48 Hours

Northwestern Medicine surgeons kept a 33-year-old man alive for 48 hours without lungs using a Total Artificial Lung system ...

Doctors Kept a Man Alive Without Lungs for 2 Days

The team's total artificial lung system, or TAL, bought the man precious time until a double lung transplant was viable.

An infection liquefied a man’s lungs. This invention kept him alive

Doctors at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago saved the life of young man using a total artificial lung that sustained him until he could receive a transplant.
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LivaNova Receives U.S. FDA 510(k) Clearance for Essenz Heart-Lung Machine for Cardiopulmonary Bypass Procedures

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LivaNova PLC (Nasdaq: LIVN), a market-leading medical technology and innovation company, today announced it received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance ...
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A Philadelphia surgeon’s invention and historic open-heart operation is celebrated 70 years later

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 ...