D. G. Melrose

Foreword It is a great pleasure to introduce this new volume on cardiopulmonary bypass skilfully edited by Professor Kenneth Taylor. Little more than 30 years have passed since Gibbon's report of the first successful cardiac repair with cardiopulmonary bypass. This accomplishment transformed...

Introduction The third Edition of this volume in the general series Operative Surgery takes its foundations from its predecessors and I am grateful to the previous volume editor, Mr. W. P. Cleland, for his advice and help in re-arranging the text so as to reflect the change in title from Thorax...