Becker's Hospital Review

Inside the growing use of ECMO in cardiac care

The use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is continuing to grow, with 77,542 patients in North America receiving the form of life support in the past five years, according to the ...
LAist

The viability of ECMO as a last-ditch treatment for COVID

For critical COVID patients, ECMO is a risky last-ditch treatment where a machine does the work of the heart and the lungs. But only half of COVID patients who are put on ECMO survive, a statistic ...
TBNewsWatch.com

Hospital now has capacity for 'complex, last-resort' life support measure

THUNDER BAY — Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre now has the capacity to provide a complex, last-resort life support ...
Marketplace

A lifesaving medical technology puts some patients on a “bridge to nowhere”

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 ...
News 6 WKMG

New program at AdventHealth Orlando helps save lives, reduce risk for cardiac arrest patients. Here’s how it works

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 ...