how many surgeries per year does a heart doctor do
(15 minute video) Thousands of heart surgeries are performed every day in the United States. In fact, in a recent year, surgeons performed 500,000 coronary bypass procedures. And even though there is a shortage of donor organs, more than 2,300 people have heart transplants each year. Two major advances in medicine made heart surgery possible: The heart-lung machine, which takes over the work of the heart.