SIMPLIFIED EXPERIMENTAL OPEN-HEART SURGERY IN A COMMUNITY HOSPITAL.

Focuses on the simplified experimental open-heart surgery using dog models in a community hospital. Utilization of plastic bubble oxygenators and with gravity return from the vena cava to the bubbling column of the bag; Attachment of a mechanical respirator to the endotracheal tube when the chest of the animal model was opened; Post-operative complications involved in the surgery.