BEAUMONT, Texas — A state-of-the-art machine at a Beaumont hospital is credited with helping save a man's life before Christmas. Aaron Berlinger, of Orange, was admitted to Baptist Hospital and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Saint Francis in Tulsa is launching an ECMO-equipped ambulance to begin lifesaving care during patient transfers. Here’s how it works and who it helps. TULSA, Okla. - Saint Francis Hospital is getting ...
Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) announced today that it received CE mark approval for its VitalFlow Transport Frame Air and Ground (AG) ...
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 ...
BAILEY, Colo. — When COVID-19 was continuing its deadly spread through Colorado, ICUs filled up. Lifesaving ventilators and ECMO machines were in short supply. For Jim Wilson, ECMO (extracorporeal ...
Warning: This story contains content that might upset some readers. Five-week-old Sidney Mahony lies in his mother Ashleigh's arms on a secluded balcony at the Queensland Children's Hospital on a ...
She survived, but she lost both arms and both legs. A sore throat turned into a rare infection. The infection turned into sepsis. Her organs failed. Her heart stopped. “I should have been dead. I didn ...