SEATTLE — Providence Swedish is one of a few hospitals with an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) program in the state of Washington. “We are able to essentially shuttle the patient’s blood ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The study analyzed 24 individuals hospitalized for neurologic procedures who underwent ECMO.

No Section Mayo Clinic is using heart surgery equipment to save cardiac arrest patients Shift in treatment comes after studies showed certain cardiac arrest patients could be six times as likely to ...

Respiratory and survival outcomes in the year after receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for severe COVID-19 were excellent in a highly selected group treated at one New York City ...

DANVERS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Abiomed (NASDAQ: ABMD) announces the first two patients in the world have been treated with the Abiomed Breethe OXY-1 System, a compact cardiopulmonary bypass system.

ABINGTON, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- "I was a healthy 29 year old, so it was expected to just have the baby and you know, go home," said Jenna Gresko, who is a registered nurse in the surgical ICU at ...

When a patient is in cardiac failure, a machine called the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation mimics the function of the heart and lungs. This life-saving technology was pioneered by Dr. Robert H.