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 ...

Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center (EMRMC) has been designated a Silver Level Center on the Pathway to Excellence in ...

ECU Health Medical Center is proud to announce its designation as a Gold Level Center of Excellence in Life Support by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Marshfield, Wis. (WSAW) - Marshfield Medical Center-Marshfield is one of three Wisconsin hospitals to offer ECMO treatment. ECMO is the highest form of life support that is offered at the hospital.

Hospital discharge day for Phoua Yang was more like a pep rally. On her way rolling out of Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, she teared up as streamers and confetti rained down on her. Nurses ...

For the first time, a medical team at Northwestern University has used a special device to save the life of a patient after they were diagnosed with COVID-19. The machine, known as an Extracorporeal ...

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a method of providing lung and heart support to patients with inadequate blood perfusion in the body, or gas exchange in the lungs. Blood is pumped from ...

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 such ...