COVID-19 has caused more than 2 million deaths worldwide since the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic in March 2020. Patients with severe COVID-19 frequently experience respiratory ...

Aspirus St. Luke's has launched a new extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) program to provide lifesaving heart and lung ...

The latest miracle machine in modern medicine – whose use has skyrocketed in recent years – is saving people from the brink of death: adults whose lungs have been ravaged by the flu; a trucker who was ...

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 ...

Researchers suggest "total artificial lung" approach might make double-lung transplant saf ...

Registry data reaffirmed extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) as a reasonable strategy for COVID-19 patients with severe respiratory problems, with most survivors discharged home and several ...

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We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Two recently published studies report success with ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Doctors and health experts have expressed shock on social media recently about the number of ICU patients on ECMO treatment, ...