However, ECMO is unable to save covid-19 patients with multiple organs that have already started to shut down, because it only replaces the job of the lungs and sometimes the heart, not other organs.

When TriHealth patient Chelsey Robinson was getting an epidural in preparation for birth, she lost consciousness, her blood ...

Using 2016 to 2021 data from the National Inpatient Sample, Gallegos-Koyner and colleagues evaluated 5,680 adults who underwent ECMO for COVID-19 pneumonia (mean age, 46 years; 71.4% men ...

The UAB Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Program aims to staff multiple patients in need of ECMO treatment in a dedicated section of the cardiothoracic ICU with full support of an ECMO ...