"They were not tested in the way they are being used, " says Norman Kato, a cardiac surgeon from Encino, Calif.
Brennan toured the hospital and met head cardiac surgeon James Zocco.
"If you ask a real good cardiac surgeon to name the top three heart surgeons of all time, they'll have trouble naming the other two, " he said.
Recently, I spoke to Markus Thalmann, the cardiac surgeon on the team that saved the little Austrian girl who had drowned, and learned that a checklist had been crucial to her survival.
Professor Robert Bonser, a cardiac surgeon from Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, said that while the findings were "interesting", the scarcity of organs meant that gender matching was unlikely to become the rule.
At that, the doctor asked Isom, a cardiac surgeon and surgeon in chief at Weill-Cornell Medical Center in New York, whom he would recommend at his sister institution, Columbia-New York Hospital, in Upper Manhattan.
"There's an incredible amount of research and a very large sum of venture capital and private investment going into the field, " says Dr. Amit Patel, a cardiac surgeon and director of Cardiac Cell Therapy at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
You'd be mad at having to return your car to the mechanic within a month, yet rehospitalization after people get their hearts repaired too often is treated as business as usual, laments Dr. Ricardo Bello, a cardiac surgeon at New York's Montefiore Medical Center.
Since the FDA gave the big thumbs up to a fully implantable artificial heart earlier this month, cardiac surgeon "Bud" Frazier and his team at the Texas Heart Institute aren't wasting any time in developing what they hope will be a fully-functioning, pulse-free artificial heart.
The panel met to evaluate use of the novel device in patients with significant symptomatic mitral regurgitation (MR) who have been determined by a cardiac surgeon to be too high risk for open mitral valve surgery and in whom existing co-morbidities would not preclude the expected benefit from correction of the MR.
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Success required having an array of equipment and people at the ready helicopter-rescue personnel, trauma surgeons, an experienced cardiac anesthesiologist and surgeon, bioengineering support staff, operating and critical-care nurses, intensivists.
He suffered cardiac arrest on Good Friday and the duty surgeon was called to operate.
Tadanori Aizawa, a surgeon at Tokyos Cardiovascular Institute Hospital, would like to use the latest cardiac stents, metallic mesh devices made by Guidant Corp.
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