Registry data reaffirmed extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) as a reasonable strategy for COVID-19 patients with severe respiratory problems, with most survivors discharged home and several ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic ventilators were in short supply. Now a different treatment is in demand for the sickest of Covid patients. ECMO therapy is a last-resort ...

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is usually a last resort strategy for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), but for cases from COVID-19 should it come sooner? Starting awake ECMO ...

A Phoenix man is the first in Arizona to survive COVID-19 through a rare form of treatment called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy. Enes Dedic, 53, was on the brink of death with a ...

In the fight to save lives against the coronavirus, Michigan doctors are turning to a last-resort machine — one that offers hope when a ventilator isn’t enough. “It doesn’t treat the patient, but it ...

Every day we're hearing about the number of coronavirus cases in Australia, how many people are in hospital, in intensive care units and on ventilators. But there is another technique you may not have ...

April 15, 2020 - Rapidly escalating numbers of COVID-19 patients suffering from respiratory failure threaten to overwhelm hospital capacity and force healthcare providers into making challenging ...

Have we ever been more aware of what it means to breathe? To fill our lungs with air, feel our chests expand and know that something so ordinary and commonplace is now — especially now — nothing to ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. An early hallmark of pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 is severe refractory respiratory failure. Many ...

ECMO is a life support system that can temporarily take over the work of the heart and lungs, providing the body with oxygen. It can allow the heart and lungs time to rest and heal. A person may ...

The latest miracle machine in modern medicine – whose use has skyrocketed in recent years – is saving people from the brink of death: adults whose lungs have been ravaged by the flu; a trucker who was ...

While reading the Summer 2023 issue of the University of Michigan Medical School alumni magazine, I came across a delightful article on Dr. Hannah Abraham, who had just received her MD and PhD degrees ...