Article: New smaller heart-lung machine reduces risk to patients.

2002 MAY 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cleveland Clinic doctors are the first in the nation to use a new heart-lung machine designed to cause less trauma to patients undergoing heart surgery.

More than 600,000 people in the United States could benefit each year from the technology, which shrinks the traditionally large bypass machine to roughly the size of a breadbox.

Heart-lung bypass machines typically have been used to oxygenate and pump a person's blood during surgeries when the heart must be stopped. The new CORx System is designed for this purpose as well as for use as a backup circulatory-support system during beating-heart surgeries.

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