In the U.S., the majority of patients do not survive cardiac arrest. Fortunately, research has shown that survival rates increase considerably with ECMO. A 2020 study by the National Heart ...

He was also put on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, a form of machine support ... Even something seemingly unrelated to the cardiac system, like tooth pain after exertion, could ...

ECMO is a temporary mechanical support system that handles the function of the heart and/or lungs in patients with a variety of cardiac and respiratory problems. ECMO uses a pump that attaches with ...

Monarch Fire Protection District and St. Luke’s Hospital recently launched a collaboration aimed at improving survival rates ...

NSW Ambulance ECMO specialist Natalie Kruit says this effectively "stops the clock" so the cause of the cardiac arrest can be ...

Over the weekend, firefighters with the Kaysville Fire Department received information of a person experiencing cardiac arrest. Paramedics suspected the patient might be a candidate for ECMO ...

Clemens was one of the 20 cardiac arrest patients treated in the initial phase of the University’s ECMO resuscitation program in 2015. Now called the Minnesota Mobile Resuscitation Consortium, the ...

After two heart attacks and two episodes of cardiac arrest, Derek McKenna was clinically ... The put him on an ECMO machine and did not expect him to survive. “I was more or less told that ...