The use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is continuing to grow, with 77,542 patients in North America receiving the form of life support in the past five years, according to the ...

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 ...

Kelli Gehrke, 36, had been in cardiac arrest for seven minutes when a mobile team of doctors and specialists flown in from Harborview Medical Center connected her to a life-saving machine that ...

DULUTH — Aspirus St. Luke’s recently launched a fully operational extracorporeal membrane oxygenation program designed to rapidly initiate life-saving heart and lung support for critically ill ...

HOSPITAL MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE. HOW ARE YOU FEELING NOW? I FEEL SO MUCH BETTER NOW. IT’S BEEN A LONG YEAR. IT REALLY HAS. DOCTORS WEREN’T SURE 45 YEAR OLD KRYSTAL DELONG WOULD EVEN BE HERE TO SHARE ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Life-saving technology gave a 3-day-old baby a second chance at life. His parents are thanking a machine at Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola called ECMO for saving their ...

He developed extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, a treatment that can sustain patients whose hearts and lungs are failing — for days or weeks or longer. By Jeré Longman Robert H. Bartlett, a ...