ECMO is a life support system that can temporarily take over the work of the heart and lungs, providing the body with oxygen. It can allow the heart and lungs time to rest and heal. A person may ...

Have we ever been more aware of what it means to breathe? To fill our lungs with air, feel our chests expand and know that something so ordinary and commonplace is now — especially now — nothing to ...

Every day we're hearing about the number of coronavirus cases in Australia, how many people are in hospital, in intensive care units and on ventilators. But there is another technique you may not have ...

Natalya Manhertz, once a thriving teen athlete, defied death through ECMO support after a rare infection led to sepsis, ...

The recent rise in cases of severe cardio-respiratory failure has spurred the medical community to explore advanced life-support techniques, including Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO). In ...

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is usually a last resort strategy for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), but for cases from COVID-19 should it come sooner? Starting awake ECMO ...

One of the most complex and high-risk interventions used by IJN in such situations was Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation ...

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