JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The family of a man hospitalized at Baptist South with COVID-19 is asking for help finding an ECMO machine. Tuesday was the eighteenth day 67-year-old David Wilkinson spent in the ...
For critical COVID patients, ECMO is a risky last-ditch treatment where a machine does the work of the heart and the lungs. But only half of COVID patients who are put on ECMO survive, a statistic ...
The life-support system called ECMO can rescue COVID-19 patients from the brink of death, but not at the rates seen early in the pandemic, a new study finds. Where once about 60 percent of such ...
TULSA, Okla. — In celebration of National Doctors’ Day, Green Country is home to some of the nation's best physicians. When it comes to top-of-the-line treatments, the Oklahoma Heart Institute is ...
We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. U.S. hospitalizations requiring ECMO totaled $908 ...
University of Tennessee Medical Center staffers are saving the lives of East Tennesseans fighting COVID-19 through a new treatment that's in very high demand. Nearly a year after the pandemic made its ...
ECMO life support can be used when coronavirus patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome respond poorly to mechanical ventilation. Seriously ill coronavirus patients placed on extracorporeal ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — Hospitals are leveraging every resource available to help save lives during the pandemic. One of those tools is extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). ECMO machines are ...
ECU Health Medical Center is proud to announce its designation as a Gold Level Center of Excellence in Life Support by the ...