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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Demographics associated with low odds of receiving ECMO were being a woman, using Medicaid and residing in a low ...

The machine that saved Ryan Robbins’s life is raising tough ethical questions about how drastically to intervene on behalf of the critically ill. After Covid-19 ravaged the 51-year-old’s lungs in July ...

Socioeconomic disparities made certain groups on mechanical ventilation less likely to receive extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) treatment in the years before the pandemic, a Nationwide ...

After a rare complication nearly took her life, a York County mom says advanced ECMO technology and the team behind it gave her a second chance.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with asthma exacerbations with respiratory failure receiving ECMO vs. usual care had reduced mortality.

On a recent afternoon, sisters Ashia Abraham and Kayla Labbe giggle as they feed Ashia’s 10-month-old daughter in her high chair. The baby is enjoying macaroni and cheese, although just as much of it ...

ROCHESTER – Mayo Clinic doctors here might try to save you from a cardiac arrest by sticking large tubes in your groin. Those tubes, along with wiring and needles, are connected to an extracorporeal ...