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SURGERY, med. jur. That part of the healing art which relates to external diseases; their treatment; and, specially, to the manual operations adopted for their cure.
2. Every lawyer should have some acquaintance with surgery; his knowledge on this subject will be found useful in cases of homicide and wounds.

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Hospital staff worked collaboratively with the CDC and the DoH to conduct an extensive review of all the hospital's open-heart surgery cases in the at-risk group to confirm the source of the bacteria and take preventive steps to protect patient health.

WellSpan York Hospital Notifies Open-Heart Surgery Patients of Possible Infection Risk

Analysis reveals the volume of open-heart surgery in Lane County is more than sufficient to warrant a second program, according to guidelines published by the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Surgeons.

Second heart surgery center would benefit patients

The procedure we are evaluating does not require open-heart surgery or surgical removal of the native valve, which makes this potential treatment option especially desirable because so many patients with aortic stenosis are not able to withstand surgery," said Lamelas.

Mount Sinai to participate in CoreValve Clinical Trial

I know firsthand that this would not be the case if he had open-heart surgery.

St. Joseph's Children's Hospital First in Tampa Bay to Implant Pulmonary Valve Without Open-Heart Surgery

And it often takes weeks to recover from the trauma of open-heart surgery.

Shocking survival

But when his recent cardiac catheterization failed and his doctor told he would require open-heart surgery to repair a 95% blockage, he took a leap of faith and scoured the Internet in hopes to finding another option for himself.

Patient's Fear Leads Him To Technology

The 3-week-old son of a Van Nuys pediatrician - just 24 ounces when he was born prematurely - was recovering Friday after becoming the world's smallest infant to survive a delicate type of open-heart surgery.

MIRACLE OF MEDICINE TINIEST HEART PATIENT DOING WELL

The same is not true of adhesions that develop in patients surviving open-heart surgery, Goldberg notes.

Preventing postsurgical tissue 'gluing.'

Founded in 2001, privately held CoreValveCowhich is headquartered in Irvine, CaliforniaCohas developed a proprietary delivery system for percutaneous heart valve replacement, based on a novel catheter-and-self-expanding-frame approach on a beating heart, thus avoiding open-heart surgery.

CoreValve establishes ReValving(TM) as repeatable, pure cath-lab procedure for PAVR on a beating heart: no cardiac assistance (neither mechanical assistance, drug-induced hypotension or rapid pacing) and no surgical vessel cut-down

Helen Taussig (Mary Stuart Masterson), led research that led to open-heart surgery.

MOVIE WITH A WHOLE LOTTA HEART

CLEVELAND -- CLEVELAND, March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Women who undergo open-heart surgery are more likely than men to develop acute renal failure (ARF), according to research conducted at The Cleveland Clinic.

Women More Likely to Develop Acute Renal Failure Following Open-Heart Surgery; Cleveland Clinic Study Reported in American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Such arrhythmias can be difficult to treat with drugs or open-heart surgery, but with electrical shock administered by catheter, Patrick Tchou and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee appear to have eliminated the patients' tachycardia.