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HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Hartford Hospital is one of a few centers using ECMO, a leading-edge, life-saving treatment method for patients with respiratory and cardiac failure. Dr. Jason Gluck, director ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Providence St. Patrick Hospital's new extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine improves care for patients in critical need. The machine takes blood from the patient, ...

MINSK, 12 March (BelTA) – A child having a severe pneumonia has been saved with the help of the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine. That was the first time in Belarus the ECMO machine ...

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 ...

MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Victor and Melissa Echeverria never expected to be at Valley Children's Hospital worried about losing their daughter, especially less than a day after she was born. The new ...

Gino Marcantonio has two things to be thankful for that helped save his life when he collapsed from a heart attack on Jan. 21 in his mother’s house. One is technology: Hartford Hospital’s ECMO on the ...

RSC Brighton Hospital does not have an ECMO machine—an advanced life-support device. ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) temporarily takes over the function of the heart and lungs, allowing ...

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 ...