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 ...

ECMO is a type of life support for people with severe heart and lung conditions. ECMO involves a machine that pumps your blood (when your heart can’t) and adds oxygen to it (when your lungs can’t). An ...

Natalya Manhertz, once a thriving teen athlete, defied death through ECMO support after a rare infection led to sepsis, ...

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 ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- A Pensacola man is sharing his story of survival after a medical emergency left him with minutes to live. He says an ECMO machine and a team at Baptist Hospital are the reasons he's ...

ROCHESTER – Mayo Clinic doctors here might try to save you from a cardiac arrest by sticking large tubes in your groin. Those tubes, along with wiring and needles, are connected to an extracorporeal ...

Did you know? Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) means an artificial life support for the heart and lungs of those patients whose organs are too weak to function, giving them a second chance ...

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 ...

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 ...