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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ECMO machines are being installed at the cardiac ICU at Renown Regional Medical Center. These machines take over heart and lung function when a patient’s organs do not work on their own. “We are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Warning: This story contains content that might upset some readers. Five-week-old Sidney Mahony lies in his mother Ashleigh's arms on a secluded balcony at the Queensland Children's Hospital on a ...