Dictionary: Open-Heart Surgery
Open-heart surgery: surgery that involves opening the chest and heart. A heart–lung machine does the work for the heart and lungs during the procedure.

Nemours has two state-of-the-art children’s
hospitals in addition to our outpatient locations
in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Florida.
As a system, we offer pediatric primary, urgent,
specialty and hospital care.
Open-heart surgery: surgery that involves opening the chest and heart. A heart–lung machine does the work for the heart and lungs during the procedure.