TriHealth’s program is "one of a handful in the region" now using ECMO, and getting a patient onto the machine fast can mean the difference between life and death, TriHealth cardiothoracic surgeon Dr.

INDIANAPOLIS – When the Bayles family brought their 3-year-old daughter, Mila, to Riley Hospital for Children in early January, they never imagined she might not walk back out. What they thought was ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients who underwent ECMO for COVID-19 pneumonia or non-COVID-19 pneumonia were balanced based on ...

She survived, but she lost both arms and both legs. A sore throat turned into a rare infection. The infection turned into sepsis. Her organs failed. Her heart stopped. “I should have been dead. I didn ...

Researchers suggest "total artificial lung" approach might make double-lung transplant saf ...

Katherine Greenwood’s fight for life didn’t end with her recovery from a life-threatening heart condition. Doctors discovered something else that would change her trajectory again: breast cancer.

M Health Fairview has expanded its emergency life-support program for cardiac arrests, flying a cardiologist and an artificial heart pump to north-central Minnesota when patients’ hearts have stopped.

He developed extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, a treatment that can sustain patients whose hearts and lungs are failing — for days or weeks or longer. By Jeré Longman Robert H. Bartlett, a ...