Patients are kept on a heart-lung machine for only as long as it takes to stop the heart from beating, complete open-heart surgery or a procedure on the lungs, and restart the heart. A heart-lung ...
This can be done with angioplasty (possibly including stent placement) or with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), also called open-heart surgery. An angioplasty involves threading a wire to the ...