Bypass Surgery

• Hiker who had heart attack credits ‘divine intervention’ as Calgary cardiologist helps save his life

  A doctor who happened to be hiking led CPR efforts and later performed bypass surgery.

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  Jul 6, 2020
  
• Canadian doctors save baby Sebastian Havill in utero with world-first procedure

  When Baby Sebastian Havill entered the world, he’d already had two surgeries performed on him – one done on the tiny infant’s beating heart while he was still in his mother’s womb.

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  Jul 26, 2017
  
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• ‘World’s heaviest man’ serenades doctors after life-saving bypass surgery

  The man believed to be the world's heaviest was discharged from hospital on Wednesday following potentially life-saving bypass surgery.

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  May 18, 2017
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• ‘TandemHeart’ helps make high-risk heart patients strong enough for surgery

  For the first time in Canada, a device called a TandemHeart has been used to give a very high-risk cardiac patient a second chance.

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  Apr 10, 2017
• Bypass surgery boosts survival in heart failure: study

  Heart failure patients have a better chance of surviving 10 years if they get bypass surgery plus medicine rather than just drugs alone.

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  Apr 4, 2016
• ‘Cut the crap’: Heart and Stroke Foundation’s advice to Canadians

  The Heart and Stroke Foundation is urging Canadians to "cut the crap". The Foundation wants Canadians to go back to basics and cook from scratch at home as often as possible.

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  Sep 23, 2015