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 ...
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 ...
Nick Gegen went to bed on Monday, Aug. 18, after feeling a little weird, like he had acid reflux. At 2 a.m., he woke up gasping for air. His wife, Syndle, asked him if he was OK, then watched him fall ...
Advanced life support like extracorporeal membrane oxygenation takes over the functions of the heart and lungs for critically ...
Gino Marcantonio has two things to be thankful for that helped save his life when he collapsed from a heart attack on Jan. 21 in his mother’s house. One is technology: Hartford Hospital’s ECMO on the ...
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 membrane ...
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