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 international study finds. Where once about 60% of ...

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 international study finds.

Ventilators got more press in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, but ECMO, another rescue therapy, has been lifesaving for some COVID-19 patients who don't improve on mechanical ventilation ...

A 24-year-old contracted COVID-19 in Florida He was airlifted to Georgia to be put on ECMO circuit He underwent a double lung transplant at the University of Maryland A 24-year-old man with COVID ...

ECMO is helping some COVID-19 patients for whom standard treatments have failed and a mechanical ventilator alone is not enough to safely support their breathing.

However, IV infusion of MSCs in ECMO patients poses significant challenges, including the risk for circuit obstruction due to cell size and aggregation, which could compromise ECMO function and ...

An ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) circuit in use to support a patient in an intensive care unit at Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan's academic medical center.

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) can help patients with COVID-19 survive, but not all patients will see a benefit, and the cost of such care raises questions about resource use.

A lifesaving medical technology puts some patients on a “bridge to nowhere” ECMO machines can function as lungs and heart for patients whose organs are failing. Physician Clayton Dalton says ...

Endothelial colony-forming cells (ECFCs), a subtype of EPCs, were isolated from blood collected from 12 neonatal extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) circuits. ECFCs were isolated in all ...

The treatment that saved her life — extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) — has only been at Dominican Hospital for four years.