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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...