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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic ventilators were in short supply. Now a different treatment is in demand for the sickest of Covid patients. ECMO therapy is a last-resort ...

PHOENIX – A Phoenix man is the first in Arizona to survive COVID-19 through a rare form of treatment called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy. Enes Dedic, 53, was on the brink of ...

HCA Florida Memorial Hospital has been awarded the Silver Level Center on the Path to Excellence in Life Support Award by the ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. An early hallmark of pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 is severe refractory respiratory failure. Many ...

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 ...

Registry data reaffirmed extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) as a reasonable strategy for COVID-19 patients with severe respiratory problems, with most survivors discharged home and several ...

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is usually a last resort strategy for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), but for cases from COVID-19 should it come sooner? Starting awake ECMO ...

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 ...

In the fight to save lives against the coronavirus, Michigan doctors are turning to a last-resort machine — one that offers hope when a ventilator isn’t enough. “It doesn’t treat the patient, but it ...

In patients with rapidly deteriorating or severe cardiogenic shock, immediate use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) does not improve outcomes over an initially conservative strategy with ...

The China-made ECMO devices have been successfully applied in clinics with good effect, announced the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University on Monday, saying this has broken the ...