Heart surgery is done to correct problems with heart . Open heart surgery is any type of surgery where the chest is cut open, and surgery is performed on the muscles,valves,or arteries of the heart . It was John H. Gibbon , of the Jefferson University Medical Century, US who performed the first successful open heart operation, with help of a heart lung machine.

He had studied and worked tirelessly on this project for twenty to develop a machine that could interrupt the circulation by taking over the functions of the heart and lungs, allowing surgeons to operate on the heart..

The world crews Dr. world owes Dr. Gibbon an enormous dept of gratitude for pioneering this gratitude for pioneering this technology, and persisting for 23 years in its development – until he got it just right, on the morning of May 6th 1953. Today open heart surgeries are much less risky because of him.