ECU Health Medical Center is proud to announce its designation as a Gold Level Center of Excellence in Life Support by the ...

Breathing. That critical inhale/exhale operation of the lungs is something we often take for granted — until something goes wrong and respiratory problems result. The Center for Acute Respiratory ...

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Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center (EMRMC) has been designated a Silver Level Center on the Pathway to Excellence in ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — Providence Swedish is one of a few hospitals with an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) program in the state of Washington. “We are able to essentially shuttle the patient’s blood ...

Nearly 90 percent of COVID-19 patients who qualified for, but did not receive, ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) due to a shortage of resources during the height of the pandemic died in the ...

When newborn babies or children with heart or lung distress are struggling to survive, doctors often turn to a form of life support that uses artificial lungs. This treatment, called Extracorporeal ...

When doctors at Spectrum Health acquired an ECMO machine, they expected to use it five or six times a year. In the first year, they have already treated 15 patients with it, including two flu patients ...

Grant McIntyre does not remember anything for 50 days while he was receiving ECMO treatment When Grant McIntyre was admitted to intensive care, seriously ill with Covid-19, the help of a ventilator ...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- A cancer survivor recently had an emotional reunion with some of the members of an elite team of medical providers at Brooke Army Medical Center and saw the machine ...