Evidence-based recommendations on venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA ECMO) for postcardiotomy cardiogenic shock in adults. This involves using an artificial lung to oxygenate the ...

She survived, but she lost both arms and both legs. A sore throat turned into a rare infection. The infection turned into sepsis. Her organs failed. Her heart stopped. “I should have been dead. I didn ...

He developed extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, a treatment that can sustain patients whose hearts and lungs are failing — for days or weeks or longer. By Jeré Longman Robert H. Bartlett, a ...

Case Presentation: A 37-year-old man with no known medical history presented to a pharmacy with agitation and severe chest pain radiating to the back. At 16:00, he experienced a witnessed cardiac ...

HOSPITAL MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE. HOW ARE YOU FEELING NOW? I FEEL SO MUCH BETTER NOW. IT’S BEEN A LONG YEAR. IT REALLY HAS. DOCTORS WEREN’T SURE 45 YEAR OLD KRYSTAL DELONG WOULD EVEN BE HERE TO SHARE ...

INDIANAPOLIS – When the Bayles family brought their 3-year-old daughter, Mila, to Riley Hospital for Children in early January, they never imagined she might not walk back out. What they thought was ...

YORK, Pa. — WellSpan York Hospital has 10 ECMO machines that officials say have saved nearly 400 lives. "ECMO is the highest form of life support that is currently offered in the world. It can either ...

BAILEY, Colo. — When COVID-19 was continuing its deadly spread through Colorado, ICUs filled up. Lifesaving ventilators and ECMO machines were in short supply. For Jim Wilson, ECMO (extracorporeal ...

Over the last decade, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has rapidly become commonplace in critical care medicine, with veno-venous ECMO (VV ECMO) and veno-arterial ECMO (VA ECMO) representing ...

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center is saving more lives in the Baton Rouge region with the use of a complex medical therapy that is only available at four hospitals in Louisiana. Last year, ...

Yale New Haven Health is among the first healthcare systems in the country to transport critically ill patients using the Medtronic VitalFlow ECMO System, a more compact and portable life-support ...