NORTHWESTERN TRAINING SMALLER HOSPITALS ON ECMO: The pandemic shed light on the usefulness of, and lack of access to, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), or extracorporeal life support. It ...

The evolution of ECMO from a last-resort intervention to a mainstay of modern critical care is a testament to the relentless pursuit of better patient outcomes in the field of medicine ...

Our fourth fellow, also a pediatric intensivist, will receive similar broad-based training that includes rotations on adult ECMO services at collaborating institutions, ECMO transport (ground and air) ...

ECMO therapy is a last-resort treatment used when ventilators fail, and its use is rising across America as younger patients fill Intensive Care Units.

Starting awake ECMO prior to intubation for severe COVID-19 has been tried by a group led by Jeffrey DellaVolpe, MD, medical director of the adult ECMO program at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio.

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a treatment that adds oxygen to your blood and pumps it through your body. Learn how it works, when you might need it, and what to expect.

ECMO machines are one of the many tools being used to fight against COVID in mid-state hospitals, and they're being used more than ever right now as the delta variant surges.

When I first heard of a machine that performed this function and kept patients, especially COVID-19 patients, alive for weeks, I had to learn more. It goes by the name ECMO — for the process ...

What is extracorporeal membrane oxygenation or ECMO? Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is when you take a patient's blood out of their body via a big pipe or cannula to the ECMO machine.

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation ECMO is a potentially lifesaving procedure that can temporarily perform the work of the heart and lungs.