Apparatus that provides mechanical circulatory support during open-heart surgery, by passing the heart to facilitate surgery on the organ. The basic function of the machine is to oxygenate the body's venous supply of blood and then pump it back into the arterial system. The machine also provides intracardiac suction, filtration, and temperature control. Some of the more important components of these machines include pumps, oxygenators, temperature regulators, and filters. (UMDNS, 1999)
    

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Starling's law of the heart. Reel 2.

Starling's law of the heart. Reel 1.

Spare-part surgery : the surgical practice of the future / edited and illustrated by M. Ross-Macdonald.

A dream of the heart : the life of John H. Gibbon, Jr., father of the heart-lung machine / by Harris B. Shumacker, Jr.

James Prescott Joule and the concept of energy / Henry John Steffens.

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Starling's law of the heart. Reel 2.

Starling's law of the heart. Reel 1.

Spare-part surgery : the surgical practice of the future / edited and illustrated by M. Ross-Macdonald.

A dream of the heart : the life of John H. Gibbon, Jr., father of the heart-lung machine / by Harris B. Shumacker, Jr.

James Prescott Joule and the concept of energy / Henry John Steffens.