Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Black patients, patients with Medicaid and patients in low-income areas had decreased odds for ECMO. Median ...

YORK, Pa. — WellSpan York Hospital has 10 ECMO machines that officials say have saved nearly 400 lives. "ECMO is the highest form of life support that is currently offered in the world. It can either ...

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 ...

Life-saving technology gave a 3-day-old baby a second chance at life.His parents are thanking a machine at Ascension Sacred ...

For the first time, a medical team at Northwestern University has used a special device to save the life of a patient after they were diagnosed with COVID-19. The machine, known as an Extracorporeal ...

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When the Bayles family brought their 3-year-old daughter, Mila, to Riley Hospital for Children in early January, they never ...

The life-support system called ECMO can rescue COVID-19 patients from the brink of death, but not at the rates seen early in the pandemic, a new international study finds. Where once about 60% of such ...

University of Tennessee Medical Center staffers are saving the lives of East Tennesseans fighting COVID-19 through a new treatment that's in very high demand. Nearly a year after the pandemic made its ...

Despite family and friends searching for available options, a father passed after being in the ICU for COVID-19 complications 20 days after testing positive. A Texas father died while his family ...

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 ...

CHICAGO — Early veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for cardiogenic shock did not improve outcomes vs. a conservative strategy allowing for downstream extracorporeal membrane oxygenation ...