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 ...

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 ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Providence St. Patrick Hospital's new extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine improves care for patients in critical need. The machine takes blood from the patient, ...

In a perfect world, a patient suffering from cardiac arrest could get help for their heart without rushing into emergency surgery during an attack. Or someone in critical need of a life-saving lung or ...

The machine that saved Ryan Robbins’s life is raising tough ethical questions about how drastically to intervene on behalf of the critically ill. After Covid-19 ravaged the 51-year-old’s lungs in July ...

Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) can be defined as the emergent use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) on patients in cardiac arrest for whom conventional CPR has failed.