NORTHWESTERN TRAINING SMALLER HOSPITALS ON ECMO: The pandemic shed light on the usefulness of, and lack of access to, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), or extracorporeal life support. It's ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – Ballad Health has teamed up with Vanderbilt University Medical Center to train and expand their ECMO team. ECMO is a medical treatment that oxygenates a patient’s blood ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- We are taking a closer look at ECMO, a machine that has saved thousands of lives over the past 50 years and has now been an essential tool in the fight against COVID. Chantel ...

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 rapid proliferation and adoption of extracorporeal therapies is driving a concomitant demand for professionals with greater experience with these technologies than they normally receive during a ...

Use of left atrial venoarterial cannulation during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation—a technique known as LAVA ECMO—appears to be a safe and feasible means of support for patients with cardiogenic ...

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 ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — Hospitals are leveraging every resource available to help save lives during the pandemic. One of those tools is extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). ECMO machines are ...

The use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, accompanied by mechanical CPR, in patients with massive myocardial infarctions can lead to unexpected survival. ECMO is an advanced technology that ...

ECMO life support can be used when coronavirus patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome respond poorly to mechanical ventilation. Seriously ill coronavirus patients placed on extracorporeal ...

Patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI) and shock are often put on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support before heading to the catheterization laboratory. But the practice, done ...

A gesture of gratitude: one man's fight now helps save others. “When I woke up from the coma and saw all the people who had ...