Life-saving technology gave a 3-day-old baby a second chance at life.His parents are thanking a machine at Ascension Sacred ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The ECMO machine was used during the pandemic to help COVID patients recover when they could no longer breathe on their own. ECMO stands for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- A Pensacola man is sharing his story of survival after a medical emergency left him with minutes to live. He says an ECMO machine and a team at Baptist Hospital are the reasons he's ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — It saved countless lives during the darkest hours of the pandemic. ECMO, which stands for Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, is a medical device that treats severe heart and ...

MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Victor and Melissa Echeverria never expected to be at Valley Children's Hospital worried about losing their daughter, especially less than a day after she was born. The new ...

Speaking from his hospital bed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, James Perkinson's voice is raspy. In late February, he'd just been taken off ECMO, where the blood is piped outside ...

In a perfect world, a patient suffering from cardiac arrest could get help for their heart without rushing into emergency surgery during an attack. Or someone in critical need of a life-saving lung or ...

In case of heart and/or lung failure, an ECMO machine can be used to maintain organ function for days or even weeks. Although extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) technology has advanced, its ...

For COVID patients, ECMO is a last-ditch respiratory treatment in which only about half survive. Yet a new small study suggests many lives would... Even with risky survival rate, shortages of ECMO ...