However, during a period of circulatory arrest, the bypass machine was turned off, and no organ, the brain included, received any blood flow.
After thirty minutes had passed, Stu began the bypass machine.
"It's more exciting to put in a cardiac bypass machine than wash your hands," she said.
When your heart starts to beat again, you will be taken off the heart-lung bypass machine.
It made sense, surgeons thought, that the bypass machine could cause problems.
A surgical team put her on a heart-lung bypass machine.
Clicking and whirring, the bypass machine took over the task of circulation.
Initially he was involved in developing a bypass machine and the use of hypothermia to facilitate open heart surgery.
For these types of surgery, a heart-lung bypass machine is not needed.
She was hooked to the new bypass machine within 50 minutes.