M Health Fairview has expanded its emergency life-support program for cardiac arrests, flying a cardiologist and an artificial heart pump to north-central Minnesota when patients’ hearts have stopped.

The UAB Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Program aims to staff multiple patients in need of ECMO treatment in a dedicated section of the cardiothoracic ICU with full support of an ECMO ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette that includes a therapeutic recommendation. A discussion of the clinical problem and the mechanism of benefit of this form of therapy follows. Major ...

The Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) here has successfully used the sophisticated ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) treatment to save the life of a nine-month-old baby, who had ...

ECMO is a life support system that can temporarily take over the work of the heart and lungs, providing the body with oxygen. It can allow the heart and lungs time to rest and heal. A person may ...