The Heart Machine is Zachary Wigon's debut feature — a point worth mentioning up top, because the film exhibits the kind of patience, good judgment and restraint that normally requires careful ...

The Heart Machine Review. Mon Nov 03, 2014 at 3:38pm ET By Ron Wilkinson. A disturbing love story set in the unforgiving world of the Internet.

EXCLUSIVE: FilmBuff has acquired newcomer Zach Wigon's debut feature The Heart Machine, starring Newsroom's John Gallagher Jr. and House Of Cards' Kate Lyn Sheil. The digital-age romantic thriller ...

1953: Philadelphia surgeon John H. Gibbon Jr. performs the first successful human-heart surgery assisted by a heart-lung machine. For 26 minutes, Gibbon unhooked his patient’s heart from its ...

The heart-lung machine, first used on humans in 1953, revolutionized coronary surgery by giving doctors an hour or more to operate on a still heart. Previous techniques allowed only 15 minutes.