University of Tennessee Medical Center staffers are saving the lives of East Tennesseans fighting COVID-19 through a new treatment that's in very high demand. Nearly a year after the pandemic made its ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Demographics associated with low odds of receiving ECMO were being a woman, using Medicaid and residing in a low ...

The machine that saved Ryan Robbins’s life is raising tough ethical questions about how drastically to intervene on behalf of the critically ill. After Covid-19 ravaged the 51-year-old’s lungs in July ...

A severely ill COVID-19 patient in Florida was flown to Connecticut in August to receive a lifesaving treatment known as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation after 169 hospitals in the Southeast turned ...

Socioeconomic disparities made certain groups on mechanical ventilation less likely to receive extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) treatment in the years before the pandemic, a Nationwide ...

TriHealth’s program is "one of a handful in the region" now using ECMO, and getting a patient onto the machine fast can mean the difference between life and death, TriHealth cardiothoracic surgeon Dr.

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with asthma exacerbations with respiratory failure receiving ECMO vs. usual care had reduced mortality.