For critical COVID patients, ECMO is a risky last-ditch treatment where a machine does the work of the heart and the lungs. But only half of COVID patients who are put on ECMO survive, a statistic ...

Yale New Haven Health is among the first healthcare systems in the country to transport critically ill patients using the Medtronic VitalFlow ECMO System, a more compact and portable life-support ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The ECMO system can get in the way of cell therapy delivery. Consecutive Intrabronchial Administration may be an ...

The use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is continuing to grow, with 77,542 patients in North America receiving the form of life support in the past five years, according to the ...

A notable proportion of patients receiving veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for acute respiratory failure developed acute kidney injury (AKI), likely due to the greater severity ...

When a ventilator isn’t enough to save someone struggling to breathe with COVID-19, a team at a downtown Toronto hospital has spent the last two months taking over the lung’s primary function of ...

Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) can be defined as the emergent use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) on patients in cardiac arrest for whom conventional CPR has failed.

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.