ECMO is a type of life support for people with severe heart and lung conditions. ECMO involves a machine that pumps your blood (when your heart can’t) and adds oxygen to it (when your lungs can’t). An ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story is part of a series on 10 life-saving medical breakthroughs. Click here to read the rest. AJAY RANDHAWA, A 39-year-old from Sacramento, California, worked as a respiratory therapist for ...

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 ...

Kelli Gehrke, 36, had been in cardiac arrest for seven minutes when a mobile team of doctors and specialists flown in from Harborview Medical Center connected her to a life-saving machine that ...

One of the most complex and high-risk interventions used by IJN in such situations was Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation ...