Examples of heart-lung machine in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web By Tuesday, doctors were able to take him off the heart-lung machine. — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022 Bennett had been on a heart-lung machine for months before the transplant, leaving him very weak. — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022 On Monday, Bennett was breathing on his own but still connected to a heart-lung machine. — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022 As of Monday, Bennett was breathing on his own while still connected to a heart-lung machine to help his new heart. — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2022 He was put on a heart-lung machine called ECMO, for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, as surgeons debated doing a rare procedure to remove his clots. — David Wahlberg, Star Tribune, 10 July 2021 In addition to the ventilator, Kelsey now needed the assistance of a heart-lung machine known as ECMO. — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 18 Mar. 2021 At the Detroit hospital, Dennis was considered to be placed on an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine — also known as ECMO — which is a heart-lung machine used to help lungs recover after a bad infection, like COVID-19. — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2021 At Maimonides hospital, in Brooklyn, Adrian Kantrowitz, a surgeon-inventor who had helped perfect the pacemaker and the heart-lung machine, began working on pump designs. — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021 See More

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