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Pumphead: Does the heart-lung machine have a dark side?
One man's experience with cognitive impairment after open-heart surgery
Stories by Bruce Stutz
TechnologyJuly 1, 2003
Pumphead
In what has become almost routine, the heart-lung machine "breathes" for patients during coronary-bypass operations. But could this lifesaving device have a dark side?