How to Use heart-lung machine in a Sentence

heart-lung machine

noun

• That means most patients are put on a heart-lung machine during surgery.
  — Korin Miller, Health.com, 12 June 2020
• 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
• The units are used in conjunction with a heart-lung machine, which takes over the function of the heart and lungs during surgery.
  — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 29 Apr. 2026
• Both approaches are still considered open-heart surgery and require use of the heart-lung machine.
  — Mayo Clinic News Network, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• The units are used in conjunction with a heart-lung machine, which takes over the function of the heart and lungs during heart surgery.
  — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 19 May 2026
• From health care came endless vaccines, the pill and heart valve replacements —enabled by the heart-lung machine.
  — Ken Fisher, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2018
• The machines have been used for decades as heart-lung machines during open-heart surgery and on newborns in intensive care.
  — Christine Clarridge, The Seattle Times, 7 Feb. 2018
• Baisey's circulation was now reduced to two tubes that fed out behind the surgeon and into a heart-lung machine.
  — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
• 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
• The operation was less radical than total heart replacement and was carried out without needing a heart-lung machine.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2025
• It was disconnected from the pump, and was carried to Washkansky’s room, where it was connected to a small-capacity heart-lung machine.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 11 Dec. 2017
• Sequentially, where one lung is replaced, and then the other; or at the same time, in which the patient is put on a heart-lung machine that does the work of the heart and lungs while the heart and lungs are stopped for the surgery.
  — Korin Miller, Health.com, 12 June 2020
• The Chicago patient is in her 20s and was on a ventilator and heart-lung machine for almost two months before her operation.
  — CBS News, 12 June 2020
• To do that, surgeons remove a vein from the leg, open the chest cavity, prep the heart, stop it with the help of a heart-lung machine to keep blood circulating, sew in the graft and kick the heart into action once more.
  — Erin Blakemore, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• In an understandable deviation from procedure, Aaron Hill abandoned his heart-lung machine, walked up behind Lefrak and looked over the doctor's shoulder, to take in the moment.
  — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
• After consulting with specialists, AlGhamdi put Porter on a heart-lung machine that takes over pumping for the heart and requires a specific team to administer and manage.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2020
• He was hooked up to a heart-lung machine for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), used during life-threatening heart and lung conditions.
  — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 18 June 2026
• 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
• 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
• The Chicago patient is in her 20s and was on a ventilator and heart-lung machine for almost two months before her operation at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2020
• The medical team repeatedly performed CPR and hooked him up to an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine, which pumped blood out of his body into a heart-lung machine that removes carbon dioxide, and then back into the body.
  — Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2020
• The patient, who is her 20s, was on a ventilator and heart-lung machine for almost two months before her operation last Friday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
  — NBC News, 11 June 2020
• According to Nationwide Children’s Hospital, the heart-lung machine adds oxygen to the blood, pumps or circulates the blood through both the cardiopulmonary bypass circuit and the patient, and removes excess carbon dioxide from the blood.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2021
• The patient, who is her 20s, was on a ventilator and heart-lung machine for almost two months before her operation June 5 at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
  — USA TODAY, 13 June 2020
• Porter said he was placed on an ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) machine, which, according to Mayo Clinic, pumps blood outside of the body to a heart-lung machine, removes carbon dioxide from the blood and sends oxygen-rich blood back to the body.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026