The surgical team took her straight to the operating room and crashed her onto heart-lung bypass.
CardioVention charges that under the pretext of a possible joint venture Medtronic was shown detailed information about a small, efficient heart-lung bypass system.
Lillehei solved that problem with cross-circulation, in which a donor, linked to the patient by plastic hose and a simple pump, acted as a living heart-lung machine.
For years, surgeons had the technical tools to make simple repairs on the heart, but they couldn't help patients until the development of the heart-lung machine made it possible to preserve the body for more than a few minutes without a heartbeat.
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The operating room itself contained a maze of plastic piping that twisted though the air between the heart-and-lung machine and the operating table.
Secondhand smoke also causes lung cancer, heart and lung disease in non-smokers.
But he said the detrimental effect on cognition could be due to be attributable to poor heart and lung function affecting the brain, or directly harmful effects of smoking on brain - as well as lung - tissue.
The list of suspect goods runs from heart and lung machines to wheelbarrows, from fire-fighting equipment to detergent, from water pumps to pencils.
In what are called low-to-middle -income countries (think the BRICs), the incidence of preventable heart and lung ailments, and diabetes, is rising in tandem with affluence, although Frieden stressed that it is the poor in those nations who suffer the worst health.
By studying the climbers, six of whom reached the summit, the researchers hope to gain insight into heart failure, lung disease and sleep apnea all conditions related to a low-oxygen, or hypoxic, state.
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There is no safe level of exposure, but long-term exposure increases risk of lung cancer by 10% to 15% and heart disease by 30%.
His long-term risk also rises, as narrowing arteries threaten him with heart disease and his chances of developing lung cancer and numerous other nasties also increase.
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