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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 ...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Almost 60 years ago, a young surgical resident at Fitzsimons Army Hospital, Colorado, was assigned a daunting task. He was given three months to learn how to set up ...

__1953: __Philadelphia surgeon John H. Gibbon Jr. performs the first successful human-heart surgery assisted by a heart-lung machine. For 26 minutes, Gibbon unhooked his patient's heart from its usual ...