Bridge to Transplant
Use of mechanical circulatory support to keep heart failure patients alive until a donor heart becomes available
Treatment
Bronchoscope
This procedure is carried out using a fibre-optic camera device. The bronchoscope is passed through the patient’s breathing tube into the air passages leading to the lungs allowing the doctor to see into the airways of the lungs
Bypass Operation
An operation needing ‘Heart Lung Bypass’. This refers to the use of the heart lung bypass machine, which takes over the function of the heart and the lungs, pumping blood round the body and supplying oxygen to the blood. (When people refer to a ‘double bypass’ or ‘triple bypass’ operation, etc., they are usually referring … Read more