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 ...

MINSK, 12 March (BelTA) – A child having a severe pneumonia has been saved with the help of the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine. That was the first time in Belarus the ECMO machine ...

Kevin Jones describes how ECMO machine helped save his life A severe infection left Kevin in a coma until a medical teams from Ascension St. Thomas Health and Williamson Medical Center used ECMO ...

In a perfect world, a patient suffering from cardiac arrest could get help for their heart without rushing into emergency surgery during an attack. Or someone in critical need of a life-saving lung or ...