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 ...

COVID-19 has caused more than 2 million deaths worldwide since the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic in March 2020. Patients with severe COVID-19 frequently experience respiratory ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – Ballad Health has teamed up with Vanderbilt University Medical Center to train and expand their ECMO team. ECMO is a medical treatment that oxygenates a 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 ...

Around one year ago, Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola launched its extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) program to fulfill the medical needs in our growing community. The program included adult ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The study analyzed 24 individuals hospitalized for neurologic procedures who underwent ECMO.

Marshfield, Wis. (WSAW) - Marshfield Medical Center-Marshfield is one of three Wisconsin hospitals to offer ECMO treatment. ECMO is the highest form of life support that is offered at the hospital.

ECMO machines became a last-ditch treatment for COVID. But only half of the patients who got ECMO survived, raising questions about whether this expensive and hard to access treatment is worth it. For ...

PHOENIX, AZ — HonorHealth announced the survival of the very first Arizona coronavirus patient placed on a special therapy machine. The medical group says the patient received an extracorporeal ...

NEW YORK -- Queens resident Primkumarie Bahadur was pregnant and feeling very ill. She tested positive for COVID-19 which soon developed into severe COVID-19 pneumonia and went by ambulance to a ...