Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, can be a lifesaving technology for patients whose organs have failed. It works, essentially, by performing the functions that a healthy person’s lungs and ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – You wouldn’t think you could live when both your heart and lungs are failing, but there is technology that makes it possible, and the first and only program of its kind in Central ...

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 ...

HCA Florida Memorial Hospital has been awarded the Silver Level Center on the Path to Excellence in Life Support Award by the ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Life-saving technology gave a 3-day-old baby a second chance at life. His parents are thanking a machine at Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola called ECMO for saving their ...

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 ...

Health systems in Minnesota and Nevada are getting more than $30 million in grants to support ECMO programs, which treat patients with severe heart and lung conditions A global philanthropy is ...