THUNDER BAY — Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre now has the capacity to provide a complex, last-resort life support ...
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 ...
Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) can be defined as the emergent use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) on patients in cardiac arrest for whom conventional CPR has failed.
ROCHESTER – Mayo Clinic doctors here might try to save you from a cardiac arrest by sticking large tubes in your groin. Those tubes, along with wiring and needles, are connected to an extracorporeal ...
Health systems in Minnesota and Nevada are getting more than $30 million in grants to support ECMO programs, which treat patients with severe heart and lung conditions A global philanthropy is ...
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 ...
(MENAFN- GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) Booming demand for advanced life-support technologies and expanding critical care infrastructure are accelerating growth in the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation ...