In a perfect world, a patient suffering from cardiac arrest could get help for their heart without rushing into emergency surgery during an attack. Or someone in critical need of a life-saving lung or ...
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, can be a lifesaving technology for patients whose organs have failed. It works, essentially, by performing the functions that a healthy person’s lungs and ...
ORLANDO, Fla. – You wouldn’t think you could live when both your heart and lungs are failing, but there is technology that makes it possible, and the first and only program of its kind in Central ...
An ECMO machine, which stands for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, sits in the hallway of a medical ICU unit at St. Mary's Hospital at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Patients severely ill with ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A man who was hospitalized in Western New York after being exposed to a highly toxic gas becomes the first person with phosgene gas exposure to be successfully treated using ...
BAILEY, Colo. — When COVID-19 was continuing its deadly spread through Colorado, ICUs filled up. Lifesaving ventilators and ECMO machines were in short supply. For Jim Wilson, ECMO (extracorporeal ...