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Heart surgery patients in America pay 83% more for heart-bypass surgery than Canadians. This has verified the latest market study of Archives of Internal Medicine. The main reasons are higher medicine and labor costs. Researchers compared the results and costs of treating 12,017 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery at five U.S. hospitals and four in Canada. The average bypass-procedure cost was $20,673 in the U.S. and $10,373 in Canada, before adjustments.
The first successful open heart surgery was performed on July 9, 1893, when Dr. Daniel Hale Williams opened the chest of a man and repaired the pericardium (sac surrounding th â¦ e heart) which had been damaged by a knife stabbing.The patient recovered after 51 days and lived for another 50 years.Michael Dugan.he first open heart surgery was not performed by Vivien Thomas and Alfred Blalock (in 1944), as mentioned in the previous post. In 1902 Dr. Luther Leonidas Hill performed the â¦ first open heart surgery in the Western Hemisphere by suturing a stab wound in a young boy's heart.