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Stories about: heart surgery

Bypass for Simple Surgery is Neurocognitive-Safe in Children A team of researchers from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia carried out a study that shows that heart bypass for unsophisticated heart interventions does not affect children's neurocognitive functions. The results were published in the August issue of Pediatrics.This research was made on school-aged ... 26 July 2010 03:14 GMT Medical Equipments Will Soon Interact Among Themselves Ever since the Computer Age made its way into medicine, experts have dreamed of devising a way of letting medical equipments communicate among themselves, in a manner that would ensure a better healthcare quality for patients. Now, devices ranging from blood-pressure cuffs to heart-lung machines could easily be made ... 18 September 2009 06:00 GMT Complex Surgery Broadcast Live The reason why this particular surgery was so important and benefited from so much attention was that it represented the first time doctors used state-of-the-art techniques and equipments to treat heart rhythm disorders. The entire process was transmitted live to the delegates attending the Heart Rhythm Congress 2008... 21 October 2008 09:11 GMT