Letter B

Bypass, cardiopulmonary

Bypass of the heart and lungs as, for example, in open heart surgery.

Blood returning to the heart is diverted through a heart-lung machine (a pump-oxygenator) before returning it to the arterial circulation.

The machine does the work both of the heart (pump blood) and the lungs (supply red blood cells with oxygen)

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